Edit: Actually if you are looking for more things to explore the kagi github has some interesting other stuff like the smallweb page and the opml file of rss smallweb feeds:
I have tried to use it but it's a bit cumbersome to use for me. I don't want to manually browse the categories I just want to see everything (that I need) on the landing page. It also makes wildly inefficient to use on a desktop/laptop that has more screen real estate than a phone. Until then I will continue to use https://brutalist.report on my computer to catch up on news.
Personally I like the newsminimalist rss feed for simple ai evaluated and summarized news. I don't have much experience with the site itself but it's likely also worth a check. The dev is an active part of hn.
I use Kagi. I like the search a lot. This is completely irrelevant to what I want from them. At least with Orion browser it’s associated to the general use case of privacy. I fail to see the angle here?
Same. Paying user here, and it seems to me they’re trying to be Google at a small scale. Get a half-decent search system up, then work on a browser, then the whole AI nonsense which I do not care about, now news.
Guys, I just want you to focus on search. You might feel it is good enough, but we have basically reached 2010 Google. Let’s improve upon that. Build your own index. Combat the annoying LLM spam that is increasingly polluting the home page.
I am truly afraid the next venture for Kagi will be something like “ethical ads” and then we know how that ends.
As a long time Kagi user, I absolutely love this. I have tried getting into the RSS game for a long time but it never seemed to stick. This seems like a good middleground because it also follows the Kagi philosophy of simplicity with a wide range of diversity of sources.
As far as I can tell, it's a really nice aggregator of articles with a nice presentation which will hopefully allow me to slowly stop going to news sites multiple times per day. Also, it's a nice way of escaping enshittification in the same way Kagi as a search engine (by being paid) and other Kagi projects (like Small Web) are doing it.
The LLMs do get it wrong once in a while though in their summaries. Mostly OK in my experience with Kagi Kite (this is an app version of kite.kagi.com)
It has a “Business” section, but it defaults to US and doesn’t have any customization (in Settings->Categories) to choose business/economy/financial news from other countries or regions. I wanted to provide feedback from the “Give Feedback” option in the Settings screen, but that opens up the Kagi feedback forum and requires creating an account. I’m not that invested in anything Kagi to go through this amount of trouble.
I would prefer in-app feedback forms to be simple forms that collect information right within the app without having an account, logging in, etc.
But they have other countries categories by default in the language of the news themselves with possibility to show that translated in a language of our choice.
So this helps.
I wish they had a scope per source for reliability and political party association.
This seems about as relevant to their core search product as building a clothing import/export/logistics business[1].
I wish they’d focus entirely on search, because that is where innovation is sorely needed. I used Kagi for a little while and could see it becoming huge if they added more user-friendly features.
When Facebook and Google take views and traffic away from news sources through summaries and amp and the rest, it’s bad. But when Kagi does it it’s now good?
The only people mad at Google/LLM summaries not leading to click-throughs are the website operators themselves. They're great for the user that doesn't have to go to a garbage ad riddled page.
Kagi's "summarize page" and "ask questions about this page" are my go to over clicking results. One gets me
what I want instantly, one gets me a 20 paragraph history of wing nuts.
This "kite" thing is genuinely the nicest news experience I've had in a long time. I hope they keep investing in it. It's finally news built for the user and no one else.
> They're great for the user that doesn't have to go to a garbage ad riddled page.
The websites are garbage ad riddled because the operators have to pay for the site and the writers and such, and the vast majority of people are unwilling (or unable) to pay even $1 for viewing a site.
Even YouTube premium, lots of folks prefer their ad blocker over paying to remove the ads cause the adblocker is free.
https://kite.kagi.com
https://github.com/kagisearch/kite-public
The feeds for kite seem to be here:
https://github.com/kagisearch/kite-public/blob/main/kite_fee...
Edit: Actually if you are looking for more things to explore the kagi github has some interesting other stuff like the smallweb page and the opml file of rss smallweb feeds:
https://github.com/kagisearch/smallweb
https://kagi.com/smallweb/opml