{"slug": "kagi-news", "name": "Kagi News", "category": "other", "category_name": "Other software", "description": "", "recommenders": 3, "commenters": 6, "warners": 3, "score": 0.289, "rising": 0.35, "first": "2025-11-13", "latest": "2026-10-24", "why": "I still prefer Kagi News over any mainstream media at this point.", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 3, "neutral": 0, "compare": 0, "warn": 3}, "spark": [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 2, 0, 0, 1], "listed": true, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "I still prefer Kagi News over any mainstream media at this point.", "kind": "", "icon": true, "domain": "kagi.com", "github_repo": null, "official_url": "https://kite.kagi.com/", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["Kagi News"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 803556544, "item_id": 50222284, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50222284", "by": "z_", "date": "2026-10-24", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "You may enjoy Kagi\u2019s News offering.", "excerpt": "https://news.kagi.com/google/2026102416/finland-suspends-google-data-center-work-after-forest-clearing You may enjoy Kagi\u2019s News offering. 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I used to think AI news summaries would kill it, but having tried Kagi news (first impressions as a daily driver for a week), I no longer think so, particularly because Kagi are doing everything right. Nearly everything I could think of is in there, yet it still feels unsatisfying and oddly less informative (perhaps because I'm less engaged?). 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Inheriting rtl left its closing punctuation stranded at the start of the line (KNEWS-453). --> https://news.kagi.com/s/3gskhn", "context": "", "use_case": "news aggregation", "switched_from": "", "story": "Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results"}, {"id": 734726864, "item_id": 45920429, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45920429", "by": "input_sh", "date": "2025-11-13", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "Are they not contributing to the slop by republishing slopified versions of articles without as much as an acknowledgement", "excerpt": "https://news.kagi.com/world/latest Where's the part where you ask them to do this? Is this not something they do automatically? Are they not contributing to the slop by republishing slopified versions of articles without as much as an acknowledgement of the journalists whose stories they've decided to slopify? If they were big enough to matter they would 100% get sued over this (and rightfully so).", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "SlopStop: Community-driven AI slop detection in Kagi Search"}]}], "who": [], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["news aggregation", "ai news summaries"], "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=49388154", "title": "Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48794592", "title": "CNN Lite", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48760598", "title": "AI fake news complaining about how AI fake news is the death of real news", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46006068", "title": "Kagi News AI thinks Ukraine has NATO membership", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45919067", "title": "SlopStop: Community-driven AI slop detection in Kagi Search", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {"warn": 2}, "2025-12": {}, "2026-01": {}, "2026-02": {}, "2026-03": {}, "2026-04": {}, "2026-05": {}, "2026-06": {}, "2026-07": {"recommend": 2}, "2026-08": {"warn": 1}, "2026-09": {}, "2026-10": {"recommend": 1}}, "versions": [], "version_unnamed": 0, "family_ref": null, "runs_on": null, "lines": [], "quotes": [{"id": 803556544, "item_id": 50222284, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50222284", "by": "z_", "date": "2026-10-24", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "You may enjoy Kagi\u2019s News offering.", "excerpt": "https://news.kagi.com/google/2026102416/finland-suspends-google-data-center-work-after-forest-clearing You may enjoy Kagi\u2019s News offering. 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Inheriting rtl left its closing punctuation stranded at the start of the line (KNEWS-453). --> https://news.kagi.com/s/3gskhn", "context": "", "use_case": "news aggregation", "switched_from": "", "story": "Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results"}, {"id": 780739200, "item_id": 48796200, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48796200", "by": "itopaloglu83", "date": "2026-07-05", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I still prefer Kagi News over any mainstream media at this point.", "excerpt": "I still prefer Kagi News over any mainstream media at this point. https://news.kagi.com/", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "CNN Lite"}, {"id": 780202960, "item_id": 48762685, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48762685", "by": "toss1", "date": "2026-07-02", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Kagi are doing everything right.", "excerpt": ">>money and venture capital Yes, this. I used to think AI news summaries would kill it, but having tried Kagi news (first impressions as a daily driver for a week), I no longer think so, particularly because Kagi are doing everything right. Nearly everything I could think of is in there, yet it still feels unsatisfying and oddly less informative (perhaps because I'm less engaged?). Kagi builds a summary from multiple", "context": "", "use_case": "AI news summaries", "switched_from": "", "story": "AI fake news complaining about how AI fake news is the death of real news"}, {"id": 736110272, "item_id": 46006892, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46006892", "by": "freediver", "date": "2025-11-21", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "", "excerpt": "Renouncing refers to Ukraine's aspiration of joining, not the actual membership. Same language is used in The Dawn article that is referenced in the summary https://www.dawn.com/news/1956158/ukraine-expected-to-give-up-land-some-arms-under-us-peace-plan#:~:text=Russian%20President%20Vladimir%20Putin%20has%20long%20demanded%20Kyiv%20renounce%20plans%20to%20join%20the%20US%2Dled%20Nato%20military%20alliance%20and%20wit", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Kagi News AI thinks Ukraine has NATO membership"}, {"id": 734726864, "item_id": 45920429, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45920429", "by": "input_sh", "date": "2025-11-13", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "Are they not contributing to the slop by republishing slopified versions of articles without as much as an acknowledgement", "excerpt": "https://news.kagi.com/world/latest Where's the part where you ask them to do this? Is this not something they do automatically? Are they not contributing to the slop by republishing slopified versions of articles without as much as an acknowledgement of the journalists whose stories they've decided to slopify? If they were big enough to matter they would 100% get sued over this (and rightfully so).", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "SlopStop: Community-driven AI slop detection in Kagi Search"}]}