Deadstack

Productivity

news aggregator

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188points
97comments
#356of 3,837 in 2025
Top 10%of 2025 by points

How HN took it

MixedNo clear lean

19 positive, 21 neutral or asking, 3 mixed, 6 critical, out of 49 comments about the project. Thread score +0.31.

Idea: 10 for, 0 againstDesign: 4 for, 6 against

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What HN said

What people liked

  • Clean, fast, simple design

    From 3 comments
    • Really good, clean and to the point, love it.
      neilellis on HN
    • Simplistic site, looks clean and easy to navigate!
      productiveminds on HN
    • Thumbs up! This low-friction aggregator beats Ground News and other aggregators by a mile for simplicity and easy to read. Nice work!
      Jaauthor on HN
  • LLM overview saves clicking away to each site

    From 1 comment
    • I love that your site comes with an overview instead of clicking away to another site immediately. Feels snappy and looks good. I can see this being my news roundup. Great work!
      NetOpWibby on HN
  • Good for news roundup

    From 2 comments
    • I love that your site comes with an overview instead of clicking away to another site immediately. Feels snappy and looks good. I can see this being my news roundup. Great work!
      NetOpWibby on HN
    • Wow. That's amazing! I've bookmarked it because I think it's one of the best news sites I've seen now.
      wccrawford on HN

Objections

  • Hard to scan; blue links and spacing create a wall of text

    From 2 comments
    • I'm not sure, something about the "Recent Stories Summary" section (first view) is hard to read. The spacing is wrong. And the blue font. Someone mentioned Garamond too. It's…
      taftster on HN
    • I hear you about "links are blue" ... except when you are a link aggregator. The links are blue design from early HTML was meant to highlight links in the context of a paragraph…
      taftster on HN
  • Incoming and outgoing labels are unclear

    From 3 comments
    • This is probably a dumb question, but.. what does "incoming" and "outgoing" mean?
      amatecha on HN
    • Oh, sure, but I literally just don't understand what their meaning is >_>
      amatecha on HN
    • Really nice and clean, well done. What is the purpose of having summaries for "Recent", "Incoming", and "Outgoing" all at the top? Seems like all content from the later two are…
      metalliqaz on HN
  • Cookie banner is intrusive

    From 2 comments
    • If I'm not logged in you don't need cookies. Being blasted in the face with a cookie banner as the first thing on a web page is very disrespectful.
      mariusor on HN
    • If you can get rid of the cookies message that would be great, as I will place the site as an app in my phone and that message is annoying to have when I open it.
      tamimio on HN
  • Too many product announcements, too few blogs

    From 1 comment
    • I would love this but with more blogs and less product announcements.
      stevage on HN

Requests

  • RSS feed support

    From 2 comments
    • In case you are still reading this: Any plans to add RSS etc.? I might be in a small minority, but for me my feedreader is the central source. If I can't subscribe via feed, it…
      jantissler on HN
    • RSS?
      jarmitage on HN
  • Hide items already scrolled past

    From 1 comment
    • Maybe I'm the only one but I would love a feed that never showed me items again that I've already scrolled past without engaging in the first time.
      swader999 on HN
  • Publish source list and code

    From 3 comments
    • I just configured my own rss website to only find this awesome solution. I’m crying right now if only it found you earlier I would have saved me so much time. Also do you have…
      tiaremnt on HN
    • This is great! Are you using a news API or pulling in RSS feeds yourself? Is there a list of what sources are included?
      chicagojoe on HN
    • Very nice, I've been working on something similar, but for regular news. But I want to summarize complete articles, and RSS only provides the headlines and sometimes the first…
      gitaarik on HN
  • Suggest more blogs and sources

    From 1 comment
    • I hear you - today was heavier on product announcements than normal I feel. And re: blogs - for sure: send me suggestions and I'll add them...!
      dreadsword on HN

Questions

  • How clustering is done with LLMs

    From 2 comments
    • This is pretty cool man. How do you cluster the articles into stories? It looks like you did a good job of it.
      _menelaus on HN
    • Pretty cool! How do you do to build these "stories" based on news?
      jiwidi on HN
  • How titles avoid confabulation

    From 1 comment
    • How do you ensure the titles aren’t confabulated? I’ve used Kagi News recently and it summed up the articles about France wrong (that’s the only section in which I could reliably…
      Diti on HN
  • What the signal-to-noise test is

    From 1 comment

Alternatives named

  • Techmeme

    From 1 comment
    • A similar site I've enjoyed for >15 years (!!) is https://techmeme.com/ I also use it's sister aggregator site for political news every day - https://www.memeorandum.com/
      nathanwallace on HN
  • Particle News

    From 1 comment
    • looks very similar to https://particle.news how would you distinguish your approach (other than the tech focus)?
      clueless on HN
  • News Minimalist

    From 1 comment
    • Put the number of occurrences (I assume that's the # at the end) first to help with signal to noise ratio based on quantity of coverage maybe? I'd also take a look at news…
      gneuron on HN
  • Ground News

    From 1 comment
    • Thumbs up! This low-friction aggregator beats Ground News and other aggregators by a mile for simplicity and easy to read. Nice work!
      Jaauthor on HN
  • Kagi News

    From 1 comment
    • How do you ensure the titles aren’t confabulated? I’ve used Kagi News recently and it summed up the articles about France wrong (that’s the only section in which I could reliably…
      Diti on HN

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