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Show HN: Replaced news reading with two tiny editions a day, then made it public

A developer has launched Cutthroat News, a service that uses AI to generate two personalized news digests per day, replacing 60-90 minutes of daily news reading with a few minutes. The system, built with Python and running on a Mac Mini, fetches feeds and articles, deduplicates across topics, and uses stacked AI models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google to produce tight digests. The frontend runs on Hetzner VPS with Elixir, Bandit, and Plug, and the service promises no tracking and no cookies until user consent.

read1 min views1 publishedAug 12, 2026

I 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.news

It 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 pick up to get edition out on time. Frontend is fairly boring (in a good way), running on Hetzner VPS, using very stable Elixir, Bandit, Plug, without Phoenix, with minimal JS. No tracking, forever, and no cookies until user agrees.

Reading the news this way really saves me 60+ minutes per day, if it works well for somebody else then mission accomplished.

Comments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49269702](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49269702)

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