Lite & text only news

• NPR Text: National Public Radio
• CNN Lite: Cable News Network
• CBC Lite: Canadian Broadcast Corporation
• HRW Text: Human Rights Watch
• The Guardian: Skinny Guardian or Phil Gyford’s Daily Edition of The Guardian
• Christian Science Monitor / Text: A bit heavy for a text only site due to trackers, popups...
• OS News: Tech News
• Alter Slash: A digest of the first page of Slashdot.org and displays best 5 comments from each of the day’s Slashdot stories, and presents them on a single page for easy reading.
• Distrowatch: News and Open Source Releases
• LWN: Linux & Open Source News
• Wikipedia Main Page or you can read The Gopher interface to Wikipedia
• Wikipedias Current Event Summaries Portal
• News As Facts: This is a stripped down Version of Wikipedias Current Events Portal with market data from CNBC.
• Legible-News: Quick 1 to 2 sentence summaries of headlines with sources. They also add wikipedia links to fancy words so you can look them up.
• Collect Space News: Space history and artifacts articles (158kb)
• Harvard Law ReviewAbout Harvard Law Review
• Indie web News: Community-curated list of articles relevant to the Indie Web.
• Science Daily: Your source for the latest research news
• Soylent News: Is people
• Research Buzz: News & Info about Search Engines
• Fossphones: Foss Phone News

News from LLM summaries

These are mostly text only, some with minimal images, but they are definately not lite. Kagi News is certainly the best of the bunch here.

• Kagi News: Kagi News distills thousands of world-wide news sources into one perfect daily briefing.
• News Minimalist: All news ranked by significance. The full summaries are a paid service but they do link to to Wikipedia articles they are referencing.
• OTechy: Makes a quick 1 paragraph summary of each headline. Doesn't list sources and the "About" page doesn't explain how it works either.
• Teahose: The "About" page states, podcasts, newsletters, and Physical AI papers, each distilled to a 30-second read, but, uhh, I don't know, give it a try...

Gemini & gopher protocol news links

• News Waffle : News Gateway on the Gemini Protocol
• The Guardian : Partial mirror through Gemini protocol
• Magical Fish News : News page from Magical Fish
• FOSS Phones (geimini Version) : Free and Open Source Software Phone News
• Gemipedia
• gopherpedia.com: Gopher interface to Wikipedia
• Tux Machines
• Amiga Future News
• portal.mozz.us: World wide web portal

Sports

• Plain Text Sports

• NFL: ESPN Scoreboard Lite
• NBA: ESPN Scoreboard Lite(NFL and NBA are the only links that seem to work)
• All Sports: Dedicated to NBA and Football (Soccer)
• Wikipedias Sport Events Summaries Portal

Weather

• wttr.in: ASCII Weather /// (donate)
• Weather maniac: Interface For the national weather service
• Brolly: Plain Text Weather using open-meteo
• Text product: This site uses the national weather services interface to present area forcast discussions in a simple, mobile-friendly format. Sources from weather.gov

Search

• Read, search engines with their own indexes, for more info on search engines.
• Also check out Link lists: Alternative search engines list

• Goosh (HTTP): Unix shell like interface for Google
• Marginalia: Focuses on non-commercial content
• Duck Duck Go Lite: The Lite version of Duck Duck Go
• Wiby.Me or Wiby.org: Focuses on non-commercial website
• SearX-NG (Bare Search Instance): metasearch engine, aggregating the results of other search engines while not storing info about its users
• Searx space: More Searx Instances
• Textise: Converts pages into text through their search
• Frog Find (HTTP): Duck Duck Go for Vintage Computers
• Search Tweaks: Tools and utilities to make search better
• The Old Net
• Old-a-Vista: Great way to seach the wayback machine

Web Directories

• Curlie: Strives to be the largest human-edited directory of the Web
• Indie Seek: A human edited, Indie-web directory
• I web things directory: Exploring the independent and noncommercial web Archives
• Ooh directory: A place to find good blogs that interest you
• List Me: A free non-elite website directory

Cooking

• Dotnom: Simple recipe pages
• FOSS Cooking:(Been down for a while but their Github seems active) A fork of the currently unmaintained Based.cooking.
• FOSS Recipes
• FOSS Family Recipes
• Schlotterbeck-Foss
• Cook like HOC: A Chinese FOSS community recipe website
• Every SDF: Recipe archive
• Carnegie Mellon: Recipe archive index
• Grim grains
• Italian Cook
• Raven Dust: Recipes
• Vegan recipes
• Text files: Food
• No milk: Dairy free
• Baccy Flap Recipes: Vegetarian Recipes
• No-milk: Mercy's Recipe Blog
• Mister Breakfast: The homepage is light but once you click around there are a ton of ads.

Other tech

• Hckr News : a condensed version of Hacker News
• HackerWeb : a more accessible version ofHacker News
• View HN based on freshness
• hackyournews.com : Multi-source News Summarizer. Uses A.I.
• Lobsters : computing topics — centered around link collection and discussion
• tildes.net :
• privacytests.org
• Bleeping Computer
• CPU World : CPU News
• Unix Digest : Articles (occasional rants) and tutorials about open source, BSD and GNU/Linux system administration, and programming
• (HTTP) catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks : Forum on Risks to the Public in Computers and Related Systems

News aggregators

I define aggregators as websites that link to other websites. Some aggregators will scrape headlines but load a stripped down version of the page on their website and some have a social aspect to them. Those won't be listed under this section.

• brutalist.report
• metafilter.com : Community Aggregator like Hacker news.
• Simple Reader Mobile : Online news feed reader designed for mobile devices
• techurls.com : A nice aggregator. They have more in the menu
• Lenexia New : Our goal is to help you stay informed about current events and make it easy to access news from multiple perspectives.
• jimmyr.com Technology News Mashup(HTTP)
• biztoc.com/light A light version of the biztoc aggregator
• skimfeed.com/news : skimfeed news
• slowernews : curated news extracting relevant trends and some edge cases for borderline nerds
• Readspike : More news headlines condensed
• freshnews.org
• aldaily.com
• timef.com
• newsnow.co.uk/h/
• clone.fyi
• engineeringblogs.xyz
• zaqs.org/home.html
• drudgereport.com
• upstract.com : Aggregates ... the world lol. Surprisingly small for what it is
• spike.news
• New York Times Wire : Continuous stream of the latest articles published on NYTimes.com. Not TXT only or lite anymore.