What a computer is to me is the most remarkable tool that we've ever come up with. It's the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds.
Steve JobsMemory & Imagination, documentary, 1990
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Arthur C. ClarkeProfiles of the Future, 1973
The Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard-loom weaves flowers and leaves.
Ada LovelaceNote A on the Analytical Engine, 1843
I propose to consider the question, ‘Can machines think?’
Alan TuringComputing Machinery and Intelligence, 1950
The rise of powerful AI will be either the best or the worst thing ever to happen to humanity. We do not yet know which.
Stephen Hawkingopening of the Centre for the Future of Intelligence, Cambridge, 2016
Let's go!
Yuri Gagarinlaunch of Vostok 1, 12 April 1961
A planet is the cradle of the mind, but one cannot live in a cradle forever.
Konstantin Tsiolkovskyletter to Boris Vorobyov, 1911
That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
Neil ArmstrongApollo 11, 20 July 1969
We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.
Carl SaganCosmos, episode 1, 1980
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.
Isaac Newtonletter to Robert Hooke, 1676
What I cannot create, I do not understand.
Richard Feynmanhis Caltech blackboard, 1988
The fundamental problem of communication is that of reproducing at one point either exactly or approximately a message selected at another point.
Claude ShannonA Mathematical Theory of Communication, 1948
It's in Apple's DNA that technology alone is not enough — that it's technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the result that makes our hearts sing.
Steve JobsiPad 2 keynote, 2011
We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.
Alan TuringComputing Machinery and Intelligence, 1950
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
Alan Kayby his own account: Xerox PARC, 1971
We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science.
Marie CurieThe Discovery of Radium, Vassar College, 1921
127newsrooms in the base1,205live stories2,998publications in 24 hours
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An event, not a note
Twenty outlets write about the same thing. Pulse shows it as one card and tells you how many sources have written and how fast it spread.
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The score is in the open
The order of the feed is a formula, not an editor's taste. It is broken down into multipliers below, and you can turn the dials and watch what changes.
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The link goes to the author
We do not reprint anyone's text. A headline, a short summary, a time — and a way through to the outlet that wrote it.
How the feed works
Every number behind the order, and every source it comes from.
How a story gets here
Five steps from someone else's feed to a place in Pulse — every five minutes.
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Collect
Every five minutes we walk the newsroom feeds and public Telegram channels and take what we have not seen yet.
every 5 minutes
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Cluster
Publications about one event become one story. The vote is counted per newsroom: an outlet rewriting itself three times still gets one.
1 outlet = 1 vote
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Tag
A language model reads the headline and the first sentence and assigns topic, geography and how heavy the content is. Once per story — so nothing flickers.
once per story
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Score
Reach, speed, vocabulary burst, attention on Telegram, reader votes and freshness — in five windows at once, each with its own gravity.
5 windows
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Feed
A story competes only inside its window. The 30-minute feed rewards what is spreading right now; the month rewards what turned out to matter.
no editor in the loop
The formula, and a dial for it
This is the formula the feed is running on right now. Move the sliders and watch what actually moves the score — and what barely does.
Window
192story score
×44 vs. a lone note in the same window
Reach×10
Lone-source penalty×1.00
Speed×1.93
Vocabulary burst×1.00
Telegram attention×1.00
Reader votes×1.00
Freshness×0.10
Reader votes are capped at 1.15 and floored at 0.9 — likes move the score no further than that, on purpose. The feed ranks by how an event spreads between independent newsrooms; likes come from a dozen people.
Five windows
The same event lives in five feeds at once, with a different score in each. The difference is how fast news gets old.
The curve shows what is left of the score as the story ages. In the 30-minute window an hour leaves almost nothing; in the month a story holds for weeks.
What the AI does
Four jobs, and none of them decides what you get to see.
Tag
First light: Hera resolves two asteroids instead of one
SpaceWorldweight 0
Topic
Reads the headline and the first sentence and picks one of four topics: AI, technology, space or science. A story that fits none of them is hidden rather than shown with a borrowed badge: “Elon Musk buys a football club” is not tech, even with Musk in the headline.
How heavy it is
Rates how hard the content is for a passing reader and gives two words for the label. That becomes the sensitive-story veil — a warning, not a verdict.
Story digest
A short retelling on the story page, so you can see what happened without opening eight tabs.
Cross-language merge
Decides whether two headlines are the same event where matching names is not enough: a death and an album announcement share the people, not the event.
What the feed does not do
It does not adapt to you
The order is the same for everyone. We build no interest profile and never surface what you lingered on.
It does not sell placement
A position in the feed cannot be bought, and neither can a source's weight. Weight comes from how often an outlet is first in stories that others then confirm.
It does not hide the inconvenient
The veil is for graphic content, not for opinions. A topic set by an editor beats the model — and it stays visible as such.
It does not pretend to be clever
Everything the algorithm does is the formula above. It fails predictably: a lone important story may not rise until someone confirms it.
We neither write nor edit what is in the feed — every headline links to its source. Ranking is arithmetic, not an editorial opinion.
API
The feed is served by the same response the page itself reads. No key, read only.