Show HN: Dissecting the automation of a newspaper (Claude routine, GitHub Pages)

Pierre, a developer, has created Z Frontpage, a fully automated daily newspaper that uses an AI model to browse the web, curate news, and generate a front page styled like The Washington Post or The New York Times. The project costs about 55 cents per edition and is open source on GitHub, with the current edition being the third. Pierre initially used Claude Fable 5 but downgraded to Sonnet 5 due to cost constraints.

There are people who are against AI. And then... there is me. My name is Pierre, and I'm having the time of my life, building all crazy things. Please don't hate. = Now, here's the latest: purely automated daily newspaper. You can make your own. Take a shot. The 'code' is FOSS You can look on the repo how it works... This is what is interesting. It is almost entirely open. & Free, of course. What's interesting is that it costs almost nothing to implement and have your own newspaper running on the internet. It does not look like much, but golly, it is fun Note: HN does not like AI much, but it is mandated by law to like dissections this is allowed by the rules. So... It costs, currently, 55 cents per edition if not mistaken we generate only the frontpage, so that's why "Z Frontpage" How does it work? I don't know, man. I barely remember the tech stack. It just did the best on its own. There are people who are against such an approach. And then... I'll tell you what I remember. actually you can just read the Github's README to know precisely how it works So... There was this Claude Fable 5 shell. And I said precisely : """We are building Z Frontpage. The smartest AI we have available will be browsing the web for news, then curate an edition of the most important matters. It will look like a The Washington Post/NYT frontpage with beautiful columns and fonts . The AI will not be boringly pratting about, it will try to convince the reader of something worth believing in. It will teach humanity. Every day will matter. So this is much more than a newspaper. This is the mouthpiece of artificial reason. It could be its subtitle "The mouthpiece of artificial reason". Let's create a MVP. We will switch the AI later. For now let's try with Fable 5. Maybe you can do it yourself. A oneshot, one edition for our dream, Z Frontpage. Either code HTML directly, or code a "master prompt" to use for each edition... You decide. You're in charge.""" We had to retrograde to Sonnet 5 because I'm low on cash, these days. It is currently in the 3rd edition daily . I will keep it running for a little while. It is not much, but it is done https://lywald.github.io/zfrontpage/ https://lywald.github.io/zfrontpage/ I hope I can inspire you to be better, & to go further... I won't be replying much because everyone is very agressive and downvoting everything I say. Sad stuff. I just wanted to share See you around Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49120106 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49120106 Points: 2 Comments: 0