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A Chrome extension that replaces your new tab with one AI headline. It ranks stories by signal strength, not recency.

Status: Shipped. v1.0.0 is ready for Chrome Web Store submission.

What it does

Every time you open a new tab, you get the single most important AI story right now. Not a feed. Not a firehose. One headline.

It fetches 29 RSS/Atom feeds in parallel every 5 minutes. Sources include OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, xAI, HuggingFace, TechCrunch, Hacker News, Reddit ML, and more. It scores each story from 0 to 100 on:

• Source tier (15 pts)
• Cross-source coverage: the same story across multiple outlets (35 pts)
• HN traction (20 pts)
• Recency (25 pts)

Features

• Story types: Launch / Research / Funding / Open Source / Developing
• Keyboard nav: ←→ navigate, O open, S save, L reading list, W briefing, M topic map, , mixing board
• Force-directed physics graph (canvas, no D3) for topic relationships
• 48hr timeline strip
• Ambient mode
• Smart dedup: URL + fuzzy title matching
• 3-step onboarding

Tech

Vanilla JS, Chrome MV3, Chrome Alarms API. Zero dependencies. Custom regex RSS parser (the service worker cannot use DOMParser).

Install

Not yet on the Chrome Web Store. To load it locally:

1. Go to chrome://extensions
2. Enable Developer Mode
3. Load unpacked → select this folder