News Briefing: hourly LLM-ranked news front page, no API key

[jshelley]

A small third-party plugin that shows the front page of an hourly news briefing on your InkyPi.

What it shows: an LLM editor re-ranks ~100 feeds every hour and typesets a one-page newspaper: lead story, ranked headlines with one-line summaries, and a research/notes strip. Seven briefings to choose from: AI, Frontier Labs, Markets, US Sports, European Football, US News, World News.

Install

inkypi plugin install news_briefing https://github.com/jshelley/inkypi-news-briefing

Pick a briefing in the plugin settings and set the refresh to 60 minutes (the page updates hourly).

How it fits the panel: it fetches the landscape page (800x480) for wide panels and the portrait page (480x800) for tall ones, sends the panel's Width/Height so the service returns the closest size, then scales and pads to your resolution. If the fetch fails it shows the last cached page.

Screenshot (800x480, live): https://briefing-service.wholemind.workers.dev/v1/briefings/ai/pages/0.png?size=wide

Repo: https://github.com/jshelley/inkypi-news-briefing (MIT). The front pages are free with no API key; the service behind it is https://briefing-service.wholemind.workers.dev. Suggestions on layout or sections welcome. Thanks to @phattmatt for pointing me at the third-party plugin docs in #766.