What is this
Headline17 reads the front pages of nine news sources and distills each one into a single haiku — five syllables, seven, five. Not summaries. Not headlines. Something closer to the feeling of the day, with most of the words taken away.
Because some days, seventeen syllables is enough.
How it works
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Fetch — each news source is fetched and its visible text extracted, stripped of navigation and noise.
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Distil — the text is read carefully and rendered into three lines — the essence, nothing more.
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Cache — haiku and screenshots are stored locally so repeated visits are instant. Results expire after an hour.
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Read — nine windows. The world, made brief and strange enough to bear.
Start reading
The dashboard watches nine sources by default. You can swap any of them for any URL you like — your choices are remembered in your browser.