Paywall-free News Aggregatorfreepress.today 3 pointsniraj-agarwal1 month ago1 commentSaveHideCopy link On HNComments−niraj-agarwalOP1moAggregated links to paywall-free news articles because reading news was getting frustrating.Uses filter list of known paywall sites. Checks page for isAccessibleForFree. Looks for paywall vendor script signaturesFetches hourly on my Macbook using RSS, HN Algolia API, Guardian API. Dedupes with nomic on Ollama.JSON edition is here: https://freepress.today/api/edition.json Astro front-end.Use justif and pretext for better typesetting and masonry columnshttps://github.com/lyallcooper/justif https://github.com/chenglou/pretextAbout 6 hours on Claude Code in two sessions.
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Aggregated links to paywall-free news articles because reading news was getting frustrating.
Uses filter list of known paywall sites. Checks page for isAccessibleForFree. Looks for paywall vendor script signatures
Fetches hourly on my Macbook using RSS, HN Algolia API, Guardian API. Dedupes with nomic on Ollama.
JSON edition is here: https://freepress.today/api/edition.json Astro front-end.
Use justif and pretext for better typesetting and masonry columns
https://github.com/lyallcooper/justif https://github.com/chenglou/pretext
About 6 hours on Claude Code in two sessions.