{"slug": "ground-news", "name": "Ground News", "category": "other", "category_name": "Other software", "description": "", "recommenders": 6, "commenters": 8, "warners": 0, "score": 5.771, "rising": -0.64, "first": "2026-02-19", "latest": "2026-10-24", "why": "It solved all my news problems and fills all my news needs.", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 6, "neutral": 0, "compare": 2, "warn": 0}, "spark": [0, 0, 0, 2, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1], "listed": true, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "It solved all my news problems and fills all my news needs.", "kind": "", "icon": true, "domain": "ground.news", "github_repo": null, "official_url": "https://ground.news", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["Ground News", "GroundNews"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 803560352, "item_id": 50222522, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50222522", "by": "ethersteeds", "date": "2026-10-24", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Ground News provides aggregated sources with factuality scores", "excerpt": "Ground News provides aggregated sources with factuality scores, although the scores are subscriber-only. I've been thinking about subscribing. Here's their page for this story: https://ground.news/article/google-knocks-down-250-thousand-trees-in-finland-for-a-data-center It also links to related coverage, such as the project being cancelled in response to the outrage.", "context": "", "use_case": "news aggregation with factuality scores", "switched_from": "", "story": "Google illegally cut down 250K trees in Finland for data center"}, {"id": 786203088, "item_id": 49137693, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49137693", "by": "toomuchtodo", "date": "2026-08-01", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Use Ground News instead.", "excerpt": "Use Ground News instead. Their team is responsive to inquiries and feature requests. Enshittification of Google products continues. https://ground.news/ (no affiliation, just a customer)", "context": "customer, no affiliation", "use_case": "news aggregation", "switched_from": "", "story": "Google News is just Forrest Gump's shrimp boat now"}, {"id": 772286240, "item_id": 48267890, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48267890", "by": "augusto-moura", "date": "2026-05-25", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "but it is a somewhat good product", "excerpt": "I'm using Ground News for skimming through the news, their ads are everywhere, but it is a somewhat good product. I pay for the most basic plan and it is pretty cheap. If I want a deeper dive in some story I look the links to the original posts their provide", "context": "", "use_case": "news skimming", "switched_from": "", "story": "Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore"}, {"id": 759138784, "item_id": 47446174, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47446174", "by": "aldousd666", "date": "2026-03-19", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use GroundNews to filter out sites that have paywalls.", "excerpt": "The web is the enemy. I have an ad blocking VPN and I use GroundNews to filter out sites that have paywalls. Between those two things, I lead a relatively sane life. But I tried looking at some of the same places on an unflitered device and man, I can't even imagine living like that. It now costs me $100/year in ad blocking/circumvention just so I don't want to kill the browser.", "context": "", "use_case": "filtering paywalled news sites", "switched_from": "", "story": "'Your Frustration Is the Product'"}, {"id": 753571552, "item_id": 47098222, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47098222", "by": "denuoweb", "date": "2026-02-20", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "https://ground.news/ is a nice start.", "excerpt": "First of all, the British don't need a visa to come to America as tourists. Second of all, it says her husband overstayed his work visa as he didn't renew. Reporters these days seem to ignore truth and just write based on their ideology. Personally I'd like to see a \"ratemyreporters\" website similar to a \"ratemyprofessors\" style so we can quickly look up how much on the side of truth each reporter is actually on. Sem", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "The UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks"}]}], "caveats": [], "who": [{"by": "toomuchtodo", "context": "customer, no affiliation", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49137693", "date": "2026-08-01"}], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["news aggregation", "news aggregation with factuality scores", "news skimming", "filtering paywalled news sites"], "compared": [], "makers": [], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50221676", "title": "Google illegally cut down 250K trees in Finland for data center", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49137681", "title": "Google News is just Forrest Gump's shrimp boat now", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48266051", "title": "Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47987735", "title": "WeSearch", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47972188", "title": "Show HN: WeSearch \u2013 Anonymous news aggregator with no algorithm, 700 sources", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47437655", "title": "'Your Frustration Is the Product'", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {}, "2025-12": {}, "2026-01": {}, "2026-02": {"recommend": 2}, "2026-03": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-04": {}, "2026-05": {"compare": 2, "recommend": 1}, "2026-06": {}, "2026-07": {}, "2026-08": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-09": {}, "2026-10": {"recommend": 1}}, "versions": [], "version_unnamed": 0, "family_ref": null, "runs_on": null, "lines": [], "quotes": [{"id": 803560352, "item_id": 50222522, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50222522", "by": "ethersteeds", "date": "2026-10-24", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Ground News provides aggregated sources with factuality scores", "excerpt": "Ground News provides aggregated sources with factuality scores, although the scores are subscriber-only. I've been thinking about subscribing. Here's their page for this story: https://ground.news/article/google-knocks-down-250-thousand-trees-in-finland-for-a-data-center It also links to related coverage, such as the project being cancelled in response to the outrage.", "context": "", "use_case": "news aggregation with factuality scores", "switched_from": "", "story": "Google illegally cut down 250K trees in Finland for data center"}, {"id": 786203088, "item_id": 49137693, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49137693", "by": "toomuchtodo", "date": "2026-08-01", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Use Ground News instead.", "excerpt": "Use Ground News instead. Their team is responsive to inquiries and feature requests. Enshittification of Google products continues. https://ground.news/ (no affiliation, just a customer)", "context": "customer, no affiliation", "use_case": "news aggregation", "switched_from": "", "story": "Google News is just Forrest Gump's shrimp boat now"}, {"id": 772286240, "item_id": 48267890, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48267890", "by": "augusto-moura", "date": "2026-05-25", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "but it is a somewhat good product", "excerpt": "I'm using Ground News for skimming through the news, their ads are everywhere, but it is a somewhat good product. I pay for the most basic plan and it is pretty cheap. If I want a deeper dive in some story I look the links to the original posts their provide", "context": "", "use_case": "news skimming", "switched_from": "", "story": "Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore"}, {"id": 767803777, "item_id": 47987736, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47987736", "by": "EGCstudy", "date": "2026-05-02", "version": null, "stance": "compare", "quote": "Ground News charges $9.99/mo for the bias-comparison features", "excerpt": "WeSearch ships the same per-story bias ratings as Ground News \u2014 Left, Lean Left, Center, Lean Right, Right \u2014 based on AllSides + Ad Fontes Media consensus. We add anonymous threaded discussion under every story. What's different: \u2022 Cost: WeSearch is free. Ground News charges $9.99/mo for the bias-comparison features (https://ground.news/subscribe). \u2022 Discussion: WeSearch has anonymous threaded comments under every st", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "WeSearch"}, {"id": 767665696, "item_id": 47979106, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47979106", "by": "gitowiec", "date": "2026-05-01", "version": null, "stance": "compare", "quote": "same as paid https://ground.news!", "excerpt": "Great idea, same as paid https://ground.news!", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: WeSearch \u2013 Anonymous news aggregator with no algorithm, 700 sources"}, {"id": 759138784, "item_id": 47446174, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47446174", "by": "aldousd666", "date": "2026-03-19", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use GroundNews to filter out sites that have paywalls.", "excerpt": "The web is the enemy. I have an ad blocking VPN and I use GroundNews to filter out sites that have paywalls. Between those two things, I lead a relatively sane life. But I tried looking at some of the same places on an unflitered device and man, I can't even imagine living like that. It now costs me $100/year in ad blocking/circumvention just so I don't want to kill the browser.", "context": "", "use_case": "filtering paywalled news sites", "switched_from": "", "story": "'Your Frustration Is the Product'"}, {"id": 753571552, "item_id": 47098222, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47098222", "by": "denuoweb", "date": "2026-02-20", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "https://ground.news/ is a nice start.", "excerpt": "First of all, the British don't need a visa to come to America as tourists. Second of all, it says her husband overstayed his work visa as he didn't renew. Reporters these days seem to ignore truth and just write based on their ideology. Personally I'd like to see a \"ratemyreporters\" website similar to a \"ratemyprofessors\" style so we can quickly look up how much on the side of truth each reporter is actually on. Sem", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "The UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks"}, {"id": 753266192, "item_id": 47079137, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47079137", "by": "graybeardhacker", "date": "2026-02-19", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "It solved all my news problems and fills all my news needs.", "excerpt": "I pay for the Ground News app. It's an aggregator that (somehow) gets me all the articles on a topic, shows me how factual each source is and which way they lean politically. It summarizes the articles so I can ignore the click-bate headline and know whether I want to read more. I'm honestly not sure why this isn't the standard. It solved all my news problems and fills all my news needs. I'm honestly not sure what th", "context": "", "use_case": "news aggregation", "switched_from": "", "story": "Micropayments as a reality check for news sites"}]}