NextRecap reads 40 feeds on a two-hour cycle. Everything from them faces the same taste gate — on the last run, 389 items came in and 97 were kept. Being on this list buys a source nothing except a look.
Only free RSS and public APIs. No scraping, no logins, no paid data. If a feed dies we drop it rather than work around it.
Where a story gets noticed. These decide what is worth looking at — they are an input, never a byline.
Labs and makers announcing their own work. Usually the earliest and most accurate account.
The tech press. High volume, and most of it is the boring news we drop — gated hardest.
The deliberate point of difference. Lower volume by nature; the newsletters and aggregators skip this entirely.
Independent analysis — the people worth quoting on a release.
Velocity and first-mention: what is climbing before it is covered.