HACKER Q&A
📣 droyson

Is there an app/site that curates news weekly


A little bit of backstory: Recently I read/listened to Make Time by Jake & JZ, in which they mentioned that daily news is overrated and only checking news once in a week should be sufficient. This has stuck with me.

Now I'm looking for an app/site that will curate news weekly. All the apps that I've looked into (Google news, Apple news, NewsInShorts, etc.) serve the purpose of instant news. I can check the news once a week but that means only the most recent news is served up and I need to scroll way down for older relevant articles.

Is there a site that curates news of 1 week and serves in level of relevance.

Thanks for reading and any help is appreciated


  👤 galfarragem Accepted Answer ✓
https://www.slowernews.com

Even more slow paced. It's like a generalist and slow HN once most articles appeared there. I couldn't find something similar so I built it... RSS, quarterly newsletter[0] and open source[1].

[0] https://slowernews.substack.com/

[1] https://github.com/slowernews/slowernews


👤 bradgessler
https://legiblenews.com/

This is daily, but published only once. Same idea of what you’re asking for, plus no tracking and it loads each page with 1 HTTP request (no images, JS, etc.)

Some of the points you touch on are addressed with https://legiblenews.com/about/


👤 Sanguinaire
If you're not against "Old Media" and classical liberal ideas, I'd suggest just getting an Economist subscription.

👤 kevincox
I've also been looking for something like this. I find that most news outlets are trying to maintain a high volume of stories so you get lots of uninteresting stuff (my definition is fairly strict and includes homicides, most building collapses, most severe weather and other things that I don't feel has an impact on my life) and continuously repeat stories on incredibly minor updates (for example I don't need to know about every little fluctuation in the COVID trends).

I feel like the optimal amout of news for me would be low single-digit articles a week. Ideally with both Canadian news and global news but I would be happy for something global-only if I could find it.


👤 nanna
In the UK we have The Week magazine, which does pretty much that? The idea is to subscribe to its print edition, rather than read it online.

https://www.theweek.co.uk/


👤 brudgers
The Economist in print would be my recommendation. There's a team of salty meat space professionals behind it. Not an algorithm driving clicks.

It's a case where you get what you pay for.


👤 f0e4c2f7
I've looked for this same thing and haven't been able to find one I liked. The weekly model definitely seems missing in the market (you can certainly see the incentives at play.)

What I use instead is the current events page on Wikipedia and just scroll back the appropriate number of days.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events


👤 libertine
I used to like to watch Euronews because of that, they wrapped up stuff, and were able to deliver it pretty quickly - like you'd get a great snapshot of what was happening in the world.

👤 cdo
https://theweek.com/

Great weekly summary, we've enjoyed the print version for years.


👤 kosasbest
Not weekly, but daily and rounds up all the best tech news:

https://tldr.tech/