Show HN: Real-time AI news aggregator with daily digest

(aibriefs.news)

12 points | by michelmi a day ago ago

18 comments

  • adrianwaj a day ago ago

    Make it more info dense like Techmeme https://share.gemini.google/DUSuli5XiIMJ

    Have a vertical scrollbar

    Add rss

    Masonry grid (or offer layout selector) https://share.gemini.google/gAvGtSnQ9i8b

    Auto-updates so people can just leave it open in a tab and check without refresh effort

    Provide bare-bones brutalist theme option, keeping only vital information

    Alternate name: l.A.t.I.v / LaTiV - Vital backwards

    Just my tips

    • michelmi a day ago ago

      Thanks for the feedback! I'll definitely review each one and think if/how can I implement them. There's definitely some tradeoffs on every decision but I'm on the phase where I'm iterating looking for the best UI/UX.

      • adrianwaj 7 hours ago ago

        OK. One final idea would be to have a single river-of-items in a readability presentation of full articles. No summaries, just scroll down or jump through each item. Best of luck with it, thanks.

      • adrianwaj a day ago ago

        Yeah, long-term I also would look at building a viewport into the local-first Fediverse, which seems to look like an email client. https://gemini.google.com/app/5bf267d0285b01a1

        And promote sharing through it.

    • gneuron a day ago ago

      the way you do information density btw is say "include all unique insights, facts, figures, data points, predictions, timelines, and otherwise important information with 100% fidelity"

      • adrianwaj 18 hours ago ago

        Yep, then from that I would have an options panel to toggle only the things you want to see.

        The other thing I would do on AIbriefs is have spacebar shift the card-list viewport right to the top and hide the top-most card.

        This way reading the site entails loading the page and hitting spacebar after each card is read. This can already be done with Hackerbrain user-script while reading top-comments for any HN item - spacebar or clicking an item's green badge.

        https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/588721-hackerbrain-sidebar...

      • michelmi 13 hours ago ago

        Thanks, this is useful. I'm working rn on a toggle to have a dense view.

  • SiyuanFeng a day ago ago

    I love the idea for AI news aggregator website idea. As a data analyst working with AI, it's essential to know the most updated news. And this website helps me catch any AI related news.

    • michelmi a day ago ago

      Thank you! Yes, I'm polling every few minutes and I tried to cover useful sources only. Please feel free to provide feedback or feature requests.

  • beeswaxpat a day ago ago

    Looks clean and wired up nicely. What model API are you using for the AI summary? Great job!

    • michelmi a day ago ago

      Thanks! I'm using deepseek-flash and gemini-flash. I also tested other ones but these were the best tradeoff in terms of quality and price.

  • r0fl a day ago ago

    This is like a better version of digg

    Great execution

    • michelmi a day ago ago

      Thank you! I'm actively working on improving it. Any feedback or feature requests are welcome.

  • aleksiy123 a day ago ago

    The font, the colour, and the dot on the tags all scream Claude slop ui.

    • matthew_payne 9 hours ago ago

      Agreed. Otherwise I like the idea. I’m not an engineer I’m on the sales side of things where I am at, so I am curious and this may be a stupid question but how do you fact check?

      • michelmi 4 minutes ago ago

        I think the misinformation issue here is not as big as it may be in political related news. Nonetheless, I carefully chose only sources such as official blogs from companies (OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, NVIDIA, etc), tweets from recognized AI figures, or some of the most well known tech newspapers. There's no specific fact-check feature though.

    • michelmi a day ago ago

      I'm guilty! My background is backend engineer so I relied on claude design for UI decisions. I'll definitely do a review with this in mind.

      • gneuron a day ago ago

        maybe just strip the UI down to basics (techmeme + hacker news are mostly all about the text content)