Life & fun · November 22, 2025
Forty.News – Daily news, but on a 40-year delay
This started as a reaction to a conversational trope. Despite being a tranquil place, even conversations at my yoga studio often start with, "Can you believe what's going on right now?" with that angry/scared undertone. I'm a news avoider, so I usually feel some smug self-satisfaction in those instances, but I wondered if there was a way to satisfy the urge to doomscroll without the anxiety. My hypothesis: Apply a 40-year latency buffer. You get the intellectual stimulation of "Big Events" without the fog of war, because you know the world didn't end. 40 years creates a mirror between…
Forty.News – Daily news, but on a 40-year delay launched on November 22, 2025 with 443 votes, #37 of 9,795 launches that month and more than 99% of that year's launches.
In plain words
Forty.News delivers news stories from 40 years ago, providing historical context and perspective on major events without current anxieties. The service uses newspaper archives and AI processing to extract and present daily headlines from 1985, allowing readers to experience significant historical moments with known outcomes. It's designed for people who want intellectual engagement with news but seek to avoid the uncertainty and stress of covering contemporary events.
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Real-time news. Delayed forty years.
In the maker’s words, at launch
This started as a reaction to a conversational trope. Despite being a tranquil place, even conversations at my yoga studio often start with, "Can you believe what's going on right now?" with that angry/scared undertone. I'm a news avoider, so I usually feel some smug self-satisfaction in those instances, but I…
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