Newsense

Make News Make Sense

A platform to aggregate news from different sources using the RSS/Atom standard.

Features:

• Article fetching - gather news from different sources (feeds), all in one place
  • Uses RSS/Atom standard - you can add any website that supports the standard
  • A nice place to search for such feeds: link
• Public sharing - open your feeds to the world. Allow other users to subscribe to the same feeds you read
• Article clustering - group news on the same topic as a single unit
  • Reduce the amount you have to scroll
• AI Filtering
  • Like/dislike articles, so that the system learns your preferences
  • Set a threshold of AI confidence in order for it to filter out articles you always skip
  • Always skip the weather? - Dislike the weather articles, and they will stop showing up in time
  • I hate AI in places it doesn't belong to - but it's really useful in this context
• Invite-only preference
  • Don't want strangers register at your hosted instance?
  • Disable open registration and send registration codes to your friends

Article Clustering

AI Filtering

Invite-only

UI

For the web ui use https://github.com/rhusiev/newsense-web

Dev stuff

docker network create web_gateway

cargo install sqlx-cli
cargo sqlx prepare

DATABASE_URL=postgres://newsense_user:pswd_replace_me@localhost:5432/newsense_db cargo sqlx prepare

docker exec -it newsense_db psql -U newsense_user -d newsense_db

BEGIN;
UPDATE items 
SET embedding = NULL, 
    cluster_id = NULL;
DELETE FROM clusters;
COMMIT;

TODO:

• no volume mounts for prod
• reorder
• folders
• OPML
• set update frequency
• get liked
• search articles
• fix versioning and interaction about it with web