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17 sources · swept on a schedule

You can’t keep up with everything.
You don’t have to.

Noise is the reposts, listicles and hype. Signal is what actually moved: a breakthrough, a launch, a repo people suddenly use. Axon reads the labs, the papers, GitHub and Hacker News on a schedule and keeps only the signal.

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Input · 17 sources

Output · your feed

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The animation and stories are illustrative. Every number here is live from the database.

The filter

One score, then five checks.

On each sweep, Axon fetches all 17 sources at once and scores every candidate. It sorts the list, then walks down it and admits a story only if it passes all five checks. It stops at 20, so a sweep is something you can actually read. Latest keeps that order: newest day first, best story first within each day. Highest lists the strongest scores from the last 7 days.

1 · Score

score = w·(0.55·e + 0.45·r)

e Traction
Where the story ranks by points, stars or votes within its own source that sweep: 1 for the top, 0 for the bottom. That puts 300 Hacker News points and 3,000 GitHub stars on one scale. Sources without votes sit at 0.5.
r Freshness
Measured once, when the story is kept, on a 72-hour scale. A story one day old scores 0.72, three days 0.37, a week 0.10. That number stays put. If the same link comes back with more points, only the traction half can rise.
w Trust
A fixed weight per source, from 0.9 for news rewrites to 1.6 for OpenAI and Anthropic. A fresh lab post lands just below the top Hacker News story of the sweep.

2 · Admit, in order

  1. 01 New The link is not already in the feed.
  2. 02 Recent Published in the last 30 days.
  3. 03 Not junk Not from a content farm (Medium, dev.to, LinkedIn) and no fluff in the title: tutorials, roadmaps, career posts, awesome-lists. A high star count does not buy an exception.
  4. 04 Not a repeat Two titles from different sources that share 60% or more of their key words are one story. The list is sorted, so the higher-scored copy is already in.
  5. 05 Under quota At most 5 stories per source and 20 per sweep. The 20 go to the highest scores, so weaker sources drop out first.

3 · Brief

Each admitted story has its full text fetched and a brief written from it. The chat on a story answers from that article only.

One sweep, in short

Most of it never reaches you.

Illustrative examples of what the filter does. The live feed is inside.

Cut Reason
  • 15 prompts that will 10x your productivity Listicle
  • My roadmap to becoming an AI engineer in 2026 Career
  • awesome-llm-resources Evergreen list
  • The same model launch, reposted on four sites Duplicate ×4
  • This changes everything. Here is why. Hype
Kept Why
  • ArXiv Tool-use accuracy falls off a cliff past 40 tools New result
  • GitHub A voice agent that answers in under a second on a laptop 2.1k stars in 6 days
  • Anthropic Notes on how the new model handles long tasks Primary source
  • Hacker News What people actually ran on the small reasoning models 412 points

Where we listen

17 sources · 6 channels

  • CH 01

    Hacker News

    Front page, Ask and Show HN

  • CH 02

    GitHub

    New repos gaining stars

  • CH 03

    ArXiv

    cs.AI and cs.LG papers

  • CH 04

    AI labs

    OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepMind, Google, Hugging Face, NVIDIA, Together

  • CH 05

    People

    Simon Willison

  • CH 06

    Launches & news

    Product Hunt, Lobsters, TechCrunch, The Verge, Ars Technica

What you get

What reaches you, and what you can do with it.

These are the app's own screens. The story and its brief are real, from the feed on Oct 6; the chat answer and digest summary are examples.

01 Read

A brief for every story.

Axon fetches the full article and writes a brief from it: the main point, the specifics, and the caveats the source itself states. No added opinions. The original is one tap away.

  • Written from the full text, not the headline
  • Source, date and traction on every story

02 Ask

Ask the story, not the internet.

Every story has its own chat. Answers come from that article, so they stay on topic and tell you what it does not cover. Suggested questions get you started.

  • Grounded in the article you are reading
  • Voice input on supported phones

03 Catch up

The week, in one read.

Once a week Axon writes what the strongest stories actually said, and a shared theme only when several of them state one. Miss a few days and you are still current.

  • Built from the stories the filter kept
  • Install it as an app and get push alerts

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