Janus

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Janus

Janus, explore how NYT and Fox News interpret the same story

janus.news

#news bias#news comparison#media analysis#ai summaries

12points
8comments
#2,206of 3,109 in 2023
Top 71%of 2023 by points

How HN took it

QuietFewer than 5 comments about the project

1 positive, 1 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 1 critical, out of 3 comments about the project.

Execution: 1 for, 1 against

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What HN said

What people liked

  • Good idea for comparing news coverage

    From 2 comments
    • This is very good. Are the summaries manually curated?
      phoenixreader on HN
    • Not exactly the same, but GroundNews[0] is great for this same idea. They don’t do analysis of the differences though. [0]: https://ground.news/
      colejohnson66 on HN

Objections

  • Site lacked HTTPS certificate, showing a browser warning

    From 1 comment
    • would you like a free https cert (https://letsencrypt.org/) and a free google cloud VM to run your site? https://many.pw/hosting something about the http://www.janus.news/ no…
      andrewfromx on HN

Requests

  • Add HTTPS and redirect http and non-www domains to one canonical domain

    From 2 comments
    • would you like a free https cert (https://letsencrypt.org/) and a free google cloud VM to run your site? https://many.pw/hosting something about the http://www.janus.news/ no…
      andrewfromx on HN
    • nice I see it. Should also make http://www.janus.news/ forward to https://www.janus.news/ and make http://janus.news/ and https://janus.news/ forward to the single right domain…
      andrewfromx on HN

Questions

  • Are the summaries manually curated?

    From 1 comment

Alternatives named

  • Ground News

    From 2 comments
    • Not exactly the same, but GroundNews[0] is great for this same idea. They don’t do analysis of the differences though. [0]: https://ground.news/
      colejohnson66 on HN
    • They try to give an unbiased and informed approach to providing the news. That's done by showing how the same story from as many news sites as possible. They then provide the…
      colejohnson66 on HN

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