Alexandria, free open source news aggregation and classification suite
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I've always felt it a bit hard to grasp how far news reach and all. Because I'm also a bit behind on python, I decided to build something from scratch.It's really simple: docker compose, micro services connected to some very basic data pipelines using rabbitMQ, and some local NLP. The NLP portion is a bit slow as it's pure CPU and doesn't leverage GPU/NPE if you have them.The tool offers you to define your own "labels" and "relations", which are then picked up by the local NLP models to assign it to news articles. Standard, there are only a few included.But the goal is to have your own personal news aggregator, and adding/changing news sources (if they have a rss feed) should be pretty easy through the docker compose file.
HN · launched Mar 26, 2026 · 6 upvotes (top 71%) · 0 views
Niche: news aggregation platforms · 244 launches, 12 in the last 7 days ▼ -54% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Media & entertainment
- Data infrastructure
- Developer
- AI feature
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes This is a basic data pipeline using Docker Compose, RabbitMQ, RSS scrapers, and off-the-shelf local NLP models (like HuggingFace transformers or spaCy) for categorization.
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Launched 132 days after the earliest competitor.
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