News Pulse
Real-time global news feed, 475 sources, no algorithm
Details
- External ID
- 47192012
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- News Pulse
- Website domain
- vercel.app
- Launched
- Feb. 28, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 9
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.4865229110512129
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
Former investigative reporter turned developer. I built a simple breaking-news monitor because tracking events across platforms is a mess now that Twitter’s unreliable.Bluesky is the backbone (a fraction of twitter, but still lots of journalists and OSINT folks), plus RSS, Telegram, Reddit, YouTube and Mastodon. Everything is one chronological feed with no algorithm, clear source labels, and lightweight activity detection when a region spikes above baseline (frequency math, not LLMs).But we do have a (hopefully non-obtrusive) AI-generated recent/post summary.Been building for a while, figured I'd post in light of today's events. Can't promise it will survive or is good, any feedback appreciated.Built with Next.js 15 + TypeScript + Tailwind on Vercel. Real coded + supervised vibe coded. Free, no login, signups, ecthttps://pulse-osint.vercel.app/
Enrichment
- Theme
- Hacker News clients, datasets, and tools
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Search & retrieval
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- curated news feed without algorithm
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes The product is an aggregation dashboard that ingests public RSS feeds, Bluesky firehose/search, Telegram channels, and Reddit APIs, presenting them in a filtered web timeline without algorithmic recommendation engines.
Discussion
3 comments analyzed.
Concerns raised: Reliability filtering across 475 sources, especially Telegram channels, LLM-generated aesthetic distracts from core functionality, No credibility scoring for breaking news accuracy
Feature requests: Topic and region filtering options, Credibility scoring system for sources
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Launched 118 days after the earliest competitor.
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Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.