Dev builds news-alert system where 'send nothing' counts as a useful result
Valuable_Exit_5989 · reddit · 2026-10-13
A developer built an SMS service that texts updates on any news topic, with the hard problem being whether a story deserves an interruption. The system weighs recent coverage: duplicate write-ups stay silent, while genuine developments like reversals or resolutions justify another text. SMS makes false positives costly since alerts land beside real conversations, so the author argues useful silence matters as much as useful alerts, and asks how others evaluate silence versus missed events in proactive systems.
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