Show HN: Attabit – AI powered news

This is really cool. Thanks for making it! I think the factual (not calling it neutral) POV is the correct one. The length of the text is good for the summary; not too little but not too much either. Though I do agree with other commenters that a &quot;go deeper&quot; type action could be neat. The presentation works for me.<p>A profile of some kind could be nice for down the road. What kind of news stories do you want to see?<p>One thing most news is AWFUL at is the timeline of the topic in an easy digestible way. Let&#x27;s say it&#x27;s the conflict in the middle east. Sure, here&#x27;s the new story from today. Most outlets may put a link or two to a related story, but other than the relation, there&#x27;s not much more context to it.<p>Within the story block — or as a separate section or something? — it would be cool to have almost like a &quot;timeline&quot; summary view. Here&#x27;s how this thing&#x2F;topic started and changed and here&#x27;s how we got to where we are today. Maybe that&#x27;s an overall summary of several stories. Maybe it&#x27;s a general overview with links to all the specific stories over time. I&#x27;m not sure. But it keeps getting updated with additional news. Tough problem to solve I think.<p>That would be an absolutely killer feature, IMO. It would add some much needed context to the news bites today, where it can be awfully easy to forget there&#x27;s more to it than this one article.

It looks nice, but the news, while possibly factual, is very depressing. I saw something about airstrikes, powerful storms, decapitation, and the death of a famous actor. Maybe you could balance the stories a bit?<p>(I would be interested in a site with factual, interesting stories about non-ephemeral and not always depressing issues and trends.)

I like the design. Little jitter trying to scroll though. I just wish you could filter by news source. It would be cool if you could filter by types of stories which have a certain bend, like &quot;show me only those stories which are highly similar to the types of stories the org used to run from 1970-2015. Or always temper this source with that one for balance.<p>There ain&#x27;t much point in hiding the clickbait title from your view if you are still going to read the summarized thoughts of a clickbait specialist. It&#x27;s a problem that extends further than the title, the stench of it remains.

I liked the idea. A good start to a promising app. It does need some features to make it useful and some other improvement ts on UX. People have listed others, but I would like a filter or search at least for starters. Also, progressive disclosure on the news details.<p>On the cost side, you could try Gemini Pro, currently free with usage limitations. But since the content is saved, it should be fine.<p>How are you sourcing news and deciding what news to keep? Search engine or some kind of feedback? Would like more details here.

Image is too large, often useless for context and generally wasted space. Too much text per article means generally one screen page per article (consider just showing one line and having an expand button that shows the extra context). compare nytimes.com for example - you can see 9 stories on the front page even with two large images. No idea what the tick means<p>I&#x27;d aim for at least 4-6 articles showing in screen at once.

Looks cool! Very early impression is that i like it.<p>- I&#x27;d appreciate some ways to exhaust the list, though. Ie being able to just listen to yesterdays news and get a start-to-finish experience.<p>- I love the playback. Feels very natural, sounds good.<p>- The length of each post feels great. Just slightly longer than reading titles on something like Reddit or w&#x2F;e, but not so long that i&#x27;m feeling much - if any - cost in reading&#x2F;listening to posts.

I like this!<p>I guess the obvious missing features would be:<p>- Tailored to personal preferences in terms of language&#x2F;country, topic, sentiment (eg. positive things happening in the world) - Summary with the top X news of the day (in 1 line per entry) - Links to source articles<p>And bonus points: detect and show fake news circulating on the internet

An interesting feature to try on this might be to have several sentiment modes to try out. I.e. what if you hade a neutral perspective, a conservative one and a progressive one available as easily as it is to click a dark&#x2F;light mode button? What if you had some more custom modes that are targeted at providing news that fits the user&#x27;s perspective &#x2F; interest more and that would shape the summaries to align with the perspective &quot;I am a software developer that enjoys news about technological innovation and related industry news&quot;

I am French and by scrolling I saw some news on current events and a lot about the US.<p>It would be fantastic to be able to influence the news in how pinpointed the news is. A drough or atrack I do not care. News that a are historically relevant: very much (and stories apps these)

I recently made something similar. I started with the same foundation you currently have (aim to make &quot;neutral&quot; and &quot;de-sensationalized&quot;) but ultimately narrowed my focus exclusively to Developer news (since I couldn&#x27;t achieve desired results). There were always something amiss.

I wasn&#x27;t expecting to like this at all but I was pleasantly surprised. It seems a bit US focussed but I like where it&#x27;s going, being able to tailor some preferences on it could be a real winner.

Nice implementation. I like it.<p>In addition to source&#x2F;topic customization that others have already mentioned; it would be nice to be able to ask follow up questions on a news story that one would like to know more.

How much does this cost? It&#x27;d be awesome if something like this can be selfhosted &amp; tweaked for my personal preference. Is there any chance that this might go opensource?

Looks cool, I like it, but given AIs propensity to outright lie to us (hallucinate), what steps are being taken to verify the facts of the summaries it is giving?

&gt; searches for today&#x27;s top news, creates article summaries<p>&gt; What you get is a news site that heavily respects your time.<p>&gt; No spin or clickbait -- just the facts of what&#x27;s happening.<p>&gt; February 03 Yesterday - CNN - US Conducts Retaliatory Airstrikes on Iranian-Backed Militias in Iraq and Syria<p>This is completely delusional. What I see here is hand picked stream of sources comprised of Journalism and Media Industrial Complex networks of large conglomerates. What they do ? Spin, clickbait, lie, and propaganda machines on payroll of US elites. So you slap LLM on top of this to synthesize neutral garbage from garbage and call this job done ?<p>&gt; going beyond just aggregation and moving on to custom reporting.<p>To custom garbage bubble.

the light and dark mode seems backward. to get dark mode I click light mode and give versa.

what API are you using to fetch the articles? and how do u decide which articles?

Very cool!

Getting GPT (any version) to be &quot;politically neutral&quot; seems to be an exercise in futility given that the models have been shown to be inherently biased [1-6]. Given that GPT decides which stories are &#x27;important&#x27; this bias immediately comes into play in the form of selection bias. How do you handle this known bias and what is your opinion on your success in getting the output to be <i>as neutral (politically) as possible</i>?<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.uea.ac.uk&#x2F;about&#x2F;news&#x2F;article&#x2F;fresh-evidence-of-chatgpts-political-bias-revealed-by-comprehensive-new-study" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.uea.ac.uk&#x2F;about&#x2F;news&#x2F;article&#x2F;fresh-evidence-of-c...</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.telegraph.co.uk&#x2F;business&#x2F;2023&#x2F;08&#x2F;17&#x2F;openai-chatgpt-left-wing-bias-labour-party-democrats&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.telegraph.co.uk&#x2F;business&#x2F;2023&#x2F;08&#x2F;17&#x2F;openai-chatg...</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.brookings.edu&#x2F;articles&#x2F;the-politics-of-ai-chatgpt-and-political-bias&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.brookings.edu&#x2F;articles&#x2F;the-politics-of-ai-chatgp...</a><p>[4] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theregister.com&#x2F;2023&#x2F;08&#x2F;18&#x2F;chatgpt_political_bias&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theregister.com&#x2F;2023&#x2F;08&#x2F;18&#x2F;chatgpt_political_bia...</a><p>[5] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC10623051&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;pmc&#x2F;articles&#x2F;PMC10623051&#x2F;</a><p>[6] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bgr.com&#x2F;general&#x2F;openais-chatgpt-has-a-major-political-bias-and-it-could-ruin-artificial-intelligence&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bgr.com&#x2F;general&#x2F;openais-chatgpt-has-a-major-politica...</a>