A shame that it broke a few weeks ago. These projects tends to get abandoned after a while.

> 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?)

http://n-gate.com/

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

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.

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.

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.

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

https://www.nytimes.com/rss

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.

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.