Show HN: Newsplash – Personalized AI news digests without clickbait

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Jul 16, 2025 14:56
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Summary

Newsplash is a new AI-powered news platform that delivers personalized, fact-based daily digests without clickbait or paywalls, using GPT-4o to summarize and tailor content based on user preferences. The system processes around 500 articles daily, deduplicates and cleans them, and offers a chat tool for contextual queries. This highlights AI’s growing role in curating trustworthy, user-centric news experiences and combating sensationalism in media.

Hi HN, I’m the founder of Newsplash, a lightweight AI-powered news platform that delivers personalized, fact-based daily digests—no clickbait, no paywalled fluff. ⸻Why I built it: I found myself spending too much time sifting through sensationalist headlines and repetitive stories across major aggregators. Newsplash is my attempt to solve that: a tool that gives users a fast, trustworthy summary of the news that matters most to them—without the noise. ⸻How it works: • ~500 articles pulled daily via NewsAPI • Deduplicated and cleaned with a readability parser • Summarized using GPT-4o (≈90–120 tokens per article) • Each user gets a unique daily digest based on topic preferences and feedback (likes/dislikes) • A built-in GPT chat tool allows users to ask contextual questions like: “Why does this matter for Nvidia’s stock?” ⸻Stack overview: • Edge Functions: Deno (Supabase) for fetch, deduplication, and summarization • Database: Supabase Postgres for articles, preferences, digests • Front