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Show HN: Leo News – AI newsbots with different political perspectives

dgllghr — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 15:33:22 +0000

@steaks and I have been working on a site that provides political commentary on the news by AI agents.

Our long term vision is to make this an automated news site that helps users see the bigger picture around each news story and maybe even improve political discourse in some small way. An important part of that is building trust with users, and we are exploring a number of ways to do that:

- Accountability: retrospective analyses of the commentary from the agents and of the news stories themselves - Transparency: posting the models and prompts we use - Understand the user: communicate with users by both understanding their perspectives and respectfully challenging them to grow - Respect the user: no agenda or narrative. We want to show a bigger picture not a different narrative

Right now synthesis, having multiple agents representing different political positions in a discussion form, is the core and pretty much only paradigm (the Hegelian dialectic approach). In addition to expanding that approach, we are also exploring others. I think Debord and Deleuze have some ideas that can lead us down some interesting paths.

Those are all big plans, but for now you can read the news with political commentary provided by bots. We have found this enjoyable. We have also found it to be less threatening to political identities, and we see that as a core potential.

Let us know what you think!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47575628

Points: 3

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New comment by dgllghr in "Intensifying global heat threatens livability for younger and older adults"

dgllghr — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 15:01:24 +0000

I agree with you. People are far too optimistic. On a practical level, though, how much of these increasing issues can be temporarily ameliorated by better ventilated houses, schools, offices, etc.? In other words, does reducing the average exposure of CO2 help or is it really about the outdoor level? I could see the average mattering, but I could also see how spending time in an environment that is <400ppm CO2 (basically never happens now) could cause our bodies to rapidly expel CO2 and "reset" our internal levels.

New comment by dgllghr in "Shatner is making an album with 35 metal icons"

dgllghr — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 10:54:22 +0000

His acting is laughably, painfully bad and then suddenly incredibly poignant and for some reason for the whole time it's bad I'm subconsciously like "oh this part doesn't count". It's so easy to root for him

New comment by dgllghr in "I switched from VSCode to Zed"

dgllghr — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 17:08:11 +0000

It's unlikely that anyone will see this but I tried using Zed again after not using it for a while and the power draw is significantly lower! So I don't think it is related to those issues after all. I don't see much of a difference between Zed and VSCode in the amount of energy they use, but Zed is noticeably snappier (and not owned by MSFT)

LLM's and Smaller, Less Popular Programming Languages

dgllghr — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 17:38:57 +0000

Article URL: https://www.scottarbeit.com/blog/llm-s-and-smaller-less-popular-programming-languages

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46556526

Points: 5

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New comment by dgllghr in "I switched from VSCode to Zed"

dgllghr — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 16:45:27 +0000

Yes VSCode uses far less power than Zed on my machine. I believe it is probably related to these issues:

https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/21146 https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/8043

New comment by dgllghr in "I switched from VSCode to Zed"

dgllghr — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 15:00:33 +0000

I would love to switch but the battery draw on my mac is just too much! I like to move around to different places in my home as I work so being able to be on battery for a while is a must for me (not to mention that I do travel occasionally)

New comment by dgllghr in "Market design can feed the poor"

dgllghr — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 13:25:32 +0000

It’s a good thing they had central planning to come up with this system and well defined regulations to ensure it worked appropriately.

New comment by dgllghr in "Gild Just One Lily"

dgllghr — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 10:45:16 +0000

I think he has gilded many. Always gilded, though, never actually gold

New comment by dgllghr in ""Have your best baby" ad campaign"

dgllghr — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 13:12:13 +0000

I’m changing my last name to Singh and naming my “best baby” Khan Noonien

New comment by dgllghr in "Cosmic Paradox Reveals the Awful Consequence of an Observer-Free Universe"

dgllghr — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 17:45:46 +0000

I have a pet theory that I like to contemplate which is that consciousness is a field that brings the universe into being sort of like how the Higgs field brings mass into being

New comment by dgllghr in "ICE and CBP agents are scanning faces on the street to verify citizenship"

dgllghr — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 18:03:06 +0000

I’ve gone from thinking people are oblivious to thinking that people are willing to sacrifice a lot (democracy, individual liberties, food safety, etc.) out of fear, selfishness, and greed. It is surprising with the HN crowd though given how much less innovation and entrepreneurship there is under fascism.

New comment by dgllghr in "What .NET 10 GC changes mean for developers"

dgllghr — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 11:39:08 +0000

I am considering dotnet Maui for a project. On the one hand, I am worried about committing to the Microsoft ecosystem where projects like Maui have been killed in the past and Microsoft has a lot of control. Also XML… On the other hand, I’ve been seeing so many impressive technical things about dotnet itself. Has anyone here used Maui and wants to comment on their experience?

New comment by dgllghr in "How AWS S3 serves 1 petabyte per second on top of slow HDDs"

dgllghr — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 13:41:06 +0000

I enjoyed this article but I think the answer to the headline is obvious: parallelism

New comment by dgllghr in "Oklahoma's "TV nudes" scandal was Jackie Chan movie on Samsung streaming service"

dgllghr — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 13:27:11 +0000

Whether they were forced out or whether they just had a victim complex (I really don't know enough about history to know and it may be a little of both), I think it is well documented that they weren't wanted there by many. I believe England outlawed whatever religion the Pilgrims were practicing there.

New comment by dgllghr in "Oklahoma's "TV nudes" scandal was Jackie Chan movie on Samsung streaming service"

dgllghr — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 09:38:40 +0000

It never hurts to remember that many of the original European settlers to what is now the US were religious radicals who were forced out of Europe because of their religious beliefs. Their influence lives on to this day

New comment by dgllghr in "SQLiteData: A fast, lightweight replacement for SwiftData using SQL and CloudKit"

dgllghr — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 21:46:23 +0000

Oh I missed that on my first read through of the README. Very nice!

New comment by dgllghr in "SQLiteData: A fast, lightweight replacement for SwiftData using SQL and CloudKit"

dgllghr — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 10:49:23 +0000

I wish the macro approach to SQLite in Swift was about generating types from a raw query rather than generating table types. I don’t want an ORM. I want to be able to write raw SQL and have the compiler check that SQL for correctness and generate the proper bindings and types for using it. Similar projects like sqlx in rust or safeql in typescript already do this.

New comment by dgllghr in "SQLiteData: A fast, lightweight replacement for SwiftData using SQL and CloudKit"

dgllghr — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 18:34:06 +0000

Now I understand. Thanks!

New comment by dgllghr in "SQLiteData: A fast, lightweight replacement for SwiftData using SQL and CloudKit"

dgllghr — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 18:01:07 +0000

Thank you for GRDB! I am using it in a project now and it’s been great. About the benchmarks in this repo though, how can SQLiteData be faster if it uses GRDB under the hood? Are they doing something inefficient or are they bypassing GRDB in some way?