One Minute News
Learning what happened around the world in one minute.
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Learning what happened around the world in one minute.
201 followers
In today’s internet, headlines have become traps. They tease. They mislead. They make you click, only to find that the story is nothing like what you expected. We built oneminutenews.org as a response to the clickbait age. Our mission is simple: Give you the news in straight forward language and rank them based on their importance. The result? Clear, honest, no-fluff headlines that tell you exactly what happened, the way real journalism used to.
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🙋♂️ Hi all, I am Foong from Fukuoka, Japan.
📰 This is a minimalist news digest site that helps readers understand the biggest news happening around the world in one minute.
We work on this as a side project. So why are we doing this? Welp, I myself am a clickbait hater. Sometimes I click into a news story on Facebook just to find out the content is nothing as the title suggests. Born from pure hatred, we have created One Minute News to make sure every headline literally says what the content is about. This helps readers save tons of time filtering out unimportant news just by scanning through the honest headlines.
So far, here are the current features One Minute News is offering:
Rewrite clickbait headlines into honest, straightforward, and literal titles.
Filter out unimportant news.
Rank news importance with a rubric-based, time-decayed scoring system
Allow readers to filter news with preferred tags.
Compile periodic digests/briefings that summarize high-scoring articles every 6 hours.
Display the source link back to the original article.
Bookmark news.
Saved preferred tags.
Please let me know if there are any future features you want to see.
For now, we only have the website version and 0 experience in journalism. If you want to be a part of this anti-clickbait adventure too, let me know.
👌 Thank you for dropping by!
PicWish
@tham_yikfoong interesting approach! wondering if there's an api or rss feed for devs to plug these honest headlines into other apps?
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@mohsinproduct Thank you! We haven't got any plan on that yet, but gonna put that into the roadmap.
Siteline
Does it unbullshiti-fy (you have to trademark this!) only by rewording clickbait or there is also some fact checking under the hood? I loved the feed, and it looks kinda refreshing: the sentences are quite long, enough to make the brain work
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@yulianazarenko Thank you for your comment! Glad you are using the term! It does not do fact-checking at the moment because we are gathering our news from reliable sources. However, we use importance ranking, which helps filter out unreliable news.
Siteline
@tham_yikfoong are these sources known/you can choose? because obviously there might be some bias as well
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@yulianazarenko Yes, we hand-picked the sources. At this point, we don't have a way to detect bias, but it is definitely something we can explore in the near future!
the clickbait problem is real. i stopped opening most news apps because the headline says "major breakthrough" and then it's just a study with 12 participants and a huge disclaimer at the bottom. appreciate the straight-forward approach here. curious how you rank importance - is it algorithmic based on source/engagement, editorial judgment, or some mix? also wondering if you filter by topic or just top global stories
That is very useful for busy people, who just want to have a glimpse of what's happening around the world.
Will this be available in other languages too?
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@creov We haven't got localization support yet. But it is on our roadmap! Wonder what language you're looking forward to.
@tham_yikFrench, Arabic and Chinese.
@creov @tham_yikfoong I'd definitely like Dutch!
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I like the option of filtering and tagging the news so I can filter out what is important to me. Need to praise a minimalistic design ;)
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@busmark_w_nika Thanks for supporting! I'm glad you like the design.
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@tham_yikfoong You're welcome, Tham :)
This is so good. I am a daily user now, but could you please add dark mode?
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Does One Minute News rewrite the headline before or after the importance scoring runs? If scoring happens on the original clickbait title, you might rank sensationalized stories higher than they deserve. The rubric-based scoring with time decay is a smart filter though... most digest tools just sort by recency and call it a day. Honest headlines plus the 6-hour digest cycle together is what keeps this from becoming another noise feed.