cutthroat.news• Aug 12, 2026• 1 min read
Show HN: Replaced news reading with two tiny editions a day, then made it publicI am passionate news reader "to stay informed", which used to take 60-90 minutes daily. Then somewhere around February I wrote local news reader to fetch feeds and articles, feed them to AI along with my profile, ending with very tight digest of everything that interests me, joy and few minutes to read. Lots of Python and exposed scripting wires but it worked well. Then other people saw what I had and wanted the same, on their specific topics, which required some planning. Several months later: https://cutthroat.newsIt is decently smart, deduplicating articles across topics, allowing user to choose what topics to read and how much of them. Not logged users see default set which may fit or not. Topic writing end is currently on Mac Mini (I call Mini "Editorial Office", but we may move to Hetzner soon) still runs Python and can use any model across OpenAI/Anthropic/Google, except for sonnet which fails miserably in keeping up with the format. Models are stacked so if one fails others pic