How The Morning Dev works

The pipeline, step by step

1. 1

   Collect

   No AI – feeds

   Today: 763 stories from 66 outlets

   Every feed is read at least once a day, and again whenever the paper is older than two hours. Sources are news desks (The Verge, Ars Technica, BleepingComputer …), official project and vendor blogs (GitHub, Cloudflare, Python, Rust, OpenAI …), Hacker News and Lobsters, across 9 sections. All sources.

   Impact · Nothing is picked by hand: the same open feeds every day, so the paper can't be steered by who pays.

2. 2

   Group the same news

   Claude Haiku 5.5 · rules

   Today: 723 pieces of news · 32 covered by several outlets

   • Same article URL → same story, always.
   • Claude reads new headlines against the threads of the last three days and groups stories about the same specific event – “React 20 released” from three outlets, not “two React articles”.
   • If Claude is unavailable, near-identical headlines are matched by their words.
   • Security incidents are merged once more when they share a CVE or Claude sees the same incident.

   Impact · One card per piece of news instead of five near-identical headlines – and “3 sources” becomes a signal.

3. 3

   The news check

   Claude Haiku 5.5 · rules as fallback

   Today: 763 stories rated by Claude · 59 of 723 made the paper

   Every story gets a score from 0 to 100 for “should a working developer have heard about this today?”. Claude judges the event, not the writing:

   0–29 · Not news

   tutorials, “I built X”, listicles, marketing

   30–59 · Interesting, not news

   essays, niche releases, trending repos

   60–79 · News

   notable releases, launches, ecosystem events

   80–100 · Must know

   major releases, serious vulnerabilities, outages, licence changes

   ▲ The paper starts at 60

   Real-world signals push it up: +15 when two independent outlets cover it, +10 more at three, +10/+20 for 50/200+ comments on Hacker News or Lobsters. The best story of a thread decides for all of it. Only 60+ makes the front page, the sections, the feed and the sitemap. Without Claude, rules stand in: the outlet’s track record, “announces something concrete” (+20) and “reads like a tutorial” (−40).

   Impact · 664 pieces didn't make it today – tutorials, listicles and marketing stay out.

4. 4

   Read the room

   Hacker News & Lobsters · Claude summarises

   Today: 45 stories with a developer discussion

   For active stories the comment threads on Hacker News and Lobsters are fetched. Claude sums up the mood, the recurring themes and the arguments for and against – quotes are copied word for word and attributed.

   Impact · You see what developers actually think – not only what the press release says.

5. 5

   The briefing

   Claude Haiku 5.5

   Today: 59 stories briefed

   Claude reads all sources of a story and extracts structured facts: the TL;DR, why it matters, concrete action items, a timeline of what happened when, versions, CVEs and companies involved. It doesn’t write articles and never adds facts the sources don’t contain. The original reporting is always linked.

   Impact · A two-minute read gives you the facts, why they matter and what to do – with every source one click away.

6. 6

   The security desk

   Claude Haiku 5.5 · fixed rules

   Today: 26 incidents in 30 days · 25 checked against the sources

   Every security story is checked against the same ten yes/no facts – exploited in the wild, remote without login, full takeover, core infrastructure … Each “yes” names its source. Fixed rules turn the answers into a tier:

   S · Shit hits the fan(0)A · Patch today(7)B · Patch this week(10)C · Keep an eye on it(5)D · Background noise(4)

   See the tier list and the full checklist.

   Impact · “Should I patch tonight?” gets an answer you can trace back to a source.

7. 7

   Watch & listen

   Claude Haiku 5.5 · feeds

   Today: 23 of 91 videos with news character · 56 podcast episodes

   The uploads of 30 tech YouTubers and the episodes of 28 podcasts are followed. Claude sorts out tutorials, streams and talks so only videos about something current appear, and writes a short brief from each video’s description (19 so far). Episodes play right on the page.

   Impact · The newest relevant video is on the front page, and each section shows the day's video and episode.

8. 8

   The paper

   Ranking rules

   Today: 59 stories in today's edition

   The biggest stories go to the top: news score, number of outlets and discussion size decide. Each section shows its top three on the front page. The same edition feeds the RSS feed, the sitemap and the daily archive.

   Impact · The front page is an editor's pick, not an index – everything else is one click away.

Who decides what

A small, fast model is used on purpose: a few hundred short extraction calls a day, each one checkable against its sources.