Yandori News Flow
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#229of 3,837 in 2025
Top 6%of 2025 by points
How HN took it
DebatedReal support and real criticism
11 positive, 17 neutral or asking, 4 mixed, 12 critical, out of 44 comments about the project. Thread score +0.01.
Execution: 1 for, 8 againstIdea: 6 for, 2 againstDesign: 2 for, 1 againstPerformance: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Clean UI and interesting concept
From 2 comments
Good idea. Clean execution. Nice UI. I will repeat other poster's plea to make it open source. The information this provides is useful.
A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 on HNCool idea! What I liked the most was the breakdown into categories like “breaking” and “trending” plus the number of sources. The view showing the flow with a play animation was…
hmokiguess on HN
Objections
Published dates from RSS feeds are often wrong, distorting first-publisher results
From 2 comments
yea, what im currently doing is pretty simple check on published at date from the rss feed (with some small validation checks)... but its causing issues bc it can be wrong and…
antiochIst on HNYea not all major have rss feeds, but it seems like the majority still do. No translation yet. I think the biggest problem is im relying on published date from the news source…
antiochIst on HN
Includes spam and non-news sites
From 2 comments
I think the idea is interesting but it includes a lot of spam and non-news (e.g. archive.fo, .vn, .today, etc.)
KomoD on HNThis looks a lot like a combination of spam and slop posed as "breaking news". > Opinion: Operation Holiday serves a critical need in our communities > Dhru Fusion WooCommerce…
rvz on HN
No translation for non-English articles
From 2 comments
I'm basically throwing away non english articles for now... I'll pry get them in later, but I want to get english right first before trying to move to other languages... The…
antiochIst on HNYea not all major have rss feeds, but it seems like the majority still do. No translation yet. I think the biggest problem is im relying on published date from the news source…
antiochIst on HN
Wire-service republication is not handled, so attribution is wrong
From 2 comments
Yes. For example, this story about Ukraine [1] is credited to WNYT as first, but the story itself credits the Associated Press. This problem is worth solving, because it's…
Animats on HNI think you will need to filter out wire services like AP and Reuters, as I'm seeing stories that are mostly republished wire stories on random websites.
65 on HN
Requests
Open source the project
From 2 comments
Without evaluating it thoroughly and judging just from description - I really hope this ends up open-sourced - will help drastically to many good-intent parties.
ewuhic on HNGood idea. Clean execution. Nice UI. I will repeat other poster's plea to make it open source. The information this provides is useful.
A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 on HN
Interactive graphs or network views
From 2 comments
I feel a graph diagram (hub and spoke, showing "data flow") would be a useful alt view here. Cool website. As others note if this could tie in deep sources like FB, X, Reddit,…
keepamovin on HNThis is related to my interests! Where'd you find all those RSS feeds? Have you done anything else with RSS feeds? :) Also agree with the others this definitely needs interactive…
andai on HN
Include social media like Reddit and X
From 1 comment
This is absolutely brilliant. If you integrate Reddit and Twitter/X, you’d get a much more complete picture of how stories spread across the internet.
kburman on HN
Make headlines clickable and copyable
From 1 comment
It's useless to me because NONE of the titles are hotlinks, plus, you cannot even copy / paste the titles to a browser. The creator has his script set to not allowing copying.
DivingForGold on HN
Questions
How were the sites and feeds selected?
From 2 comments
More important for me is how you identify news sites, let alone 200k of them. Is there any online source that lists them? Or do you cherry pick them one by one?
elorant on HNThat's really cool! Curious how you sourced the feeds? It seems to have a bias towards Indian/Srilanka/Iran/Indonesia/Turkey etc - i.e. not the traditional western centric…
Havoc on HN
What frontend and backend technologies are used?
From 1 comment
Very cool. I'm curious what frontend and backend technologies are used?
actinium226 on HN
How are time zones handled?
From 1 comment
How do you handle time zone issues with the dates? I’ve been curious how much news starts from social media. So many news stories today are “someone said x on twitter”.
dmix on HN
Alternatives named
Newscord
From 1 comment
See also Newscord, which does very similar work to analyze bias across news media: - https://newscord.org/latest - https://www.instagram.com/newscord_org
pbiggar on HN
TARO academic news commonality tool
From 1 comment
Kudos on releasing Yandori! We have been (low-keep) working on something similar (more from an academic point of view) for the past few years: This is the introductory article…
gioele on HN