I mostly built it myself [1]. I run some workers on Cloudflare for subscribe / unsubscribe as well as host files. And I’m using Resend API for distribution. Fell free to ping me for more details.

[1] https://philippdubach.com/posts/building-a-no-tracking-newsl...

Cool project, congrats! 5k seems like a lot given do you have any intake filters? Did you “test” all of them? I would assume many of them have overlapping functionality is this something you plan to address?

I second that!

I get your point. But to be fair it's actually aggregated data from a handful of different pollsters: https://static.dwcdn.net/data/SnqG5.csv?v=1768344300000

Really appreciate you reaching out and "self promoting" your project! Super useful! I tried to implement some of the feedback from your analyzer with my latest commit [1]. Feel free to open a pull request with additional improvements or leave them here.

[1] https://github.com/philippdubach/cloudflare-rss-aggregator/c...

SELF PROMOTION

I built an RSS aggregator based on this post and the 2025 HN Popularity Contest rankings. If there's interest in other slices (top 10, top 200, etc.), feel free to reach out, happy to add them. If you want to have a look at the feeds:

https://rss-aggregator.philippd.workers.dev

1) But then why would it come back again. 2) Maybe that yes, but then same question as with (1)

The main idea is that they are sorted by "upvotes^2/time" or something like that, but there are a lot of automatic and manual penalties, that can be added or removed by the mods.

(Probably upvotes^1.6/(time+1) , but it may have change from time to time, or not, who knows.)

my bad, thanks!

Directly accessing the PDF should solve this as well: https://download.ssrn.com/2025/12/13/5915004.pdf?response-co...

Thanks everyone for the discussion. In the meantime I tried to take some of the learnings and posed a followup focused on predicting potentially successful titles. You can find the update here: https://philippdubach.com/standalone/hn-prediction/