While I like the premise, the opening text:

> Ah, Manufacturing Consent—the font that doesn’t just scream “serious journalism,” it calmly editorializes it in 144-point Fraktur while subtly nudging your worldview.

Unfortunately feels too much like an LLM output for me.

(Which is probably post-ironic in this context?)

Reminds me of furniture descriptions in the Sims

No shame in doing something that already exists for yourself. But at this point I think it wouldn't be asked too much to just ask your favorite agent to check first if someone already implemented your idea in the past and then consider if your vision is really distinct enough to warrant anther instance of whatever you want to build.

https://help.fivefilters.org/pdf-newspaper/screenshots.html#...

Was kinda filled with N-gate, but they stopped updating.

http://n-gate.com/

Yeah, it does make the stories a lot more readable, HN just has bullet points of links making it slightly hard to follow everything the only thing the site is missing is a games tab like the NY Times.

I was about to type this exactly!!

It wasn't physical, but there was a slick app for the 1st gen of iPad called Early Edition which was basically just curated RSS feeds presented in the style of a newspaper. I was only able to find one image of it. I don't think the app exists anymore, unfortunately.

https://imgur.com/a/5sw6zOP

Kagi has a news site/app that updates once per day with the highlights from various categories of news.

I would imagine one could take something like that, and have program fetch it each morning, format it nicely, and print out a front page overview of what's going on. Just pick up the paper from the printer each morning.

This idea might be fine for a front page, but would fall apart when you start getting into long articles and think pieces. You'd be burning through a lot of paper.

Early versions of Instapaper had a nice way to push out a Kindle "magazine" with recently-captured articles that I loved. This was circa...2010, 2011? An age long past.

If you can track down some decent sources that you like (maybe something like Kagi News, https://www.positive.news/, a good local paper if you have one), you could with little effort vibe up a daily printout and have it waiting for you when you get up each day. For a fun version, there's plenty of cheap thermal printers on aliexpress and similar that'd give you a non-US Letter/A4 version so it doesn't feel like Yet Another Document.

Not exactly what you’re asking for, but a big fan of Hacker Newsletter, which emails you top HN articles. What you’re asking for is a little utopian, HN is the closest thing I’ve found

You just described what Time magazine was.

Back when people still understood that they don't need to know about every single "breaking" news story on the planet the instant it happens.

For a couple of months, I took a digital news break. I only read one national paper on Sundays, and the local paper twice a week. Amazingly, I didn't burst into flames or get stranger dangered. I felt both calm and informed. I plan to resume that pattern after the election.

FOMO is the drug. The tech industry is the dealer.

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Hacker food already well defined in 1995 by Razor and Blade - clearly jolt cola :)

Source: https://youtu.be/O7AKquUtTvs?is=MJjR5eF9UY_JAo12

Hold my hacker beer...

Guess I missed ChatGPT sites, I presume it's exactly what I envision, you can make an accessible website with ChatGPT? If so, how do you know this is one?

Well done.

Here ya go:

https://www.nytimes.com/rss

It's not about the tools.

I also regularly complain about AI generated content. I do that mostly, because it's often either

- extremely uninspired design and UX wise (e.g. the classical beige/serif AI slop website),

- full of obvious and stupid mistakes (e.g. those shitty infographics on social media),

- just mimics the real thing, but misses the actual purpose (e.g. again those shitty infographics on social media)

- or is ridiculously overloaded with features and documentation (e.g. many AI generated software tools on GitHub)

That's repelling to me, because it screams that the human behind it is himself lazy and uninspired. It's bland, overloaded or full of mistakes, because raw output is a commodity.

It feels like a waste of time to even consume something, that the author or developer wasn't willing to put actual effort and thought into.

But that's an artefact of how the author is using the tool and presenting the results.

It's not an inherent property of AI use itself. HackerTimes for example doesn't feel uninspired or bland. And i like it.

washedup is right, of course, that the community is many people with many views (though the point should be made less snarkily). Of course HN disagrees with itself; it's not a self to begin with.

I think there's another factor: it takes time to find the best ways of using such new tools. The community is working this out slowly (as is society generally) and it is naturally a lagging phenomenon.

Seeing generated sites like OP and karpathy's HackerTube (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50319510) which look good and don't have the obvious-LLM sameiness that so many others do, is an interesting step along this way. It's also refreshing. There's no intrinsic reason why generated software should look bad or work poorly.

It's almost as if there are different groups that have different views and upvote different things.

Goomba.

i'm pretty happy with the existing way of browsing HN. i hope it never changes.