Ask HN: How do you keep up with news in a particular sector?
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I curate Bluesky lists of accounts that I have found useful over the years, and read the list feeds. It's reasonably efficient if you prune the list regularly and only add trusted sources. I started making (but never quite finished!) a news aggregator app that would run once a day, the idea being I could catch up with the previous 24 hours' news over breakfast/coffee, much like the old days of reading the daily paper. Would it be worth sharing?
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Depends on the niche. For your niche of choice (energy, power generation and energy markets), I'd look for industry publications (both magazines and news sites), corporate press releases and news, academic papers on related topics, discussions on any energy industry specific forums or discussion sites, etc. Honestly, that's how I'd keep up with more traditional industries.
But that's an industry I imagine has an older audience and probably relies on more traditional sources of information. For something like a video game series (or game development project), musician/band, film series/TV show, book series, etc, my method of keeping up with the news would be more heavily centred around social media posts, subreddits, Discord servers, etc.
But that's an industry I imagine has an older audience and probably relies on more traditional sources of information. For something like a video game series (or game development project), musician/band, film series/TV show, book series, etc, my method of keeping up with the news would be more heavily centred around social media posts, subreddits, Discord servers, etc.
> I considered using an RSS reader, but with advances in LLMs, I am wondering whether anyone uses an LLM for this reliably.
If RSS feeds are available then perhaps do that and get the LLM to read those if its too much info, rather than llm going to x number of websites.
If RSS feeds are available then perhaps do that and get the LLM to read those if its too much info, rather than llm going to x number of websites.
I'm interested in this as well.
Also what kind of news outlets? I find that traditional news media is often behind a community of insiders if you can find them on Twitter or something like it.
Yeah, I agree. I feel like the signal-to-noise ratio in traditional news can be quite low too. I would prefer a potential solution that is able to also pull opinionated commentary (blogs, and Twitter so on) from people close to the industry.
I don't believe simply asking a model to search through news sites and summarize occasionally would be helpful.
I don't believe simply asking a model to search through news sites and summarize occasionally would be helpful.
What’s the sector?
Energy, power generation, and wholesale energy markets. That's what I am looking into now. But I would like to diversify it as well if I find a reliable setup.
Do you pull from and summarize a bunch of news sources? How have you set it up, and has it been reliable?