About
Hokkori (ほっこり) is a Japanese word for the quiet, warm feeling you get from a small kindness or a good moment. Hokkori shows heartwarming news stories gathered from news sites in about 45 countries. Each day holds as many stories as clear the bar, up to fifty, and then it stops. Some days are longer than others.
How stories are chosen
Every story in the sources below is read by a judgement model (Jev) that answers a few yes/no questions: would a reader feel warm after this, is it about kindness or an animal, is it mainly about a tragedy, politics, or promotion. Only stories that clear the measured thresholds are shown, at most fifty a day and at most four from one source. Nobody writes or rewrites the stories here.
What you see on a card
The headline, the publisher's own summary from their feed, and the publisher's preview image, linked to the original article. Nothing is copied beyond that, and every card leads to the source.
Sources
- Good News Network
- Good Good Good
- Upworthy
- The Optimist Daily
- Reasons to be Cheerful
- NBC News
- NPR
- NPR
- CBC News
- The Globe and Mail
- Mexico News Daily
- The Rio Times
- Buenos Aires Times
- Colombia One
- MercoPress
- Jamaica Observer
- BBC News
- BBC News
- The Guardian
- Positive News
- The Irish Times
- RTÉ News
- DW
- The Local Germany
- France 24
- The Local France
- Euronews
- The Local Spain
- The Local Italy
- Portugal Resident
- DutchNews
- The Local Sweden
- The Local Norway
- The Local Denmark
- Yle News
- Iceland Review
- The Local Austria
- The Local Switzerland
- Notes from Poland
- Hungary Today
- ERR News
- LRT English
- Al Jazeera
- Arab News
- The Times of Israel
- Daily Sabah
- Tehran Times
- Africanews
- The Standard
- Capital FM
- Punch
- Premium Times
- MyJoyOnline
- Daily Maverick
- Egypt Independent
- The Japan Times
- The Mainichi
- SoraNews24
- The Korea Herald
- The Korea Times
- Yonhap News
- Sixth Tone
- Hong Kong Free Press
- The Straits Times
- CNA
- Malay Mail
- Bangkok Post
- VnExpress International
- Khmer Times
- Antara News
- Inquirer
- Rappler
- The Better India
- The Hindu
- The Times of India
- Dawn
- The Kathmandu Post
- The Astana Times
- Gazeta.uz
- ABC News
- ABC News
- The Guardian Australia
- RNZ
- Stuff
- The New Zealand Herald
- Post-Courier
Publishers who prefer not to appear here can write to hello@hokkori.news and will be removed.