Durable News Agent
A proactive news curation agent system built on persistent tasks and a layered filtering architecture that automatically performs collection, screening, ranking and presentation of news, with human input only at key decision points.
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IndieDevDan demonstrated a system called Durable News Agent, which automatically fetches, filters, ranks and presents news once per minute, with humans intervening only at key points to give feedback.
The Durable News Agent system uses a layered architecture: at the bottom is a SQLite database, above that is the persistent task capability provided by Pi Durable, above that it is wrapped as an API, and the outermost layer consists of thin clients such as browser, terminal TUI, CLI and Cron.
Cron triggers a task once per minute, so collection, deduplication and ranking keep happening even when the person steps away from the keyboard.
Jev is a classifier used to judge relevance, identify duplicates, check factual consistency and even help generate presentation content, with a single classification call taking less than half a second and costing extremely little.
The system uses a cheap classifier (Jev) as a gate, so that expensive language models only process content that could become signal, in order to control token costs during continuous operation.
Through a conversational instruction, the user asked to increase the Gemini weight; after reading the settings file, the agent raised the Gemini keyword weight from 1.2 to 1.3, and all subsequent scans followed this preference.
The Durable News Agent settings panel maintains a keyword list and news source links, covering sources such as Hacker News, Latent Space, Claude Code, Anthropic, OpenAI and Simon Willison.
Durable News Agent has its own toolset, including running news scans, listing candidates, reading entries, searching the web, fetching URLs, researching entries, Jev classification, presenting news, presenting timelines, and asking the user about tastes.
Durable News Agent does not read files or modify code; it does only one thing: news curation.
The system has been running continuously for more than a day and has captured entries such as Anthropic's "code merge volume up nearly tenfold since May", which was marked as mostly hype.
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Durable News Agent does not read files or modify code; it does only one thing: news curation.
50%UnverifiedIndieDevDan demonstrated a system called Durable News Agent, which automatically fetches, filters, ranks and presents news once per minute, with humans intervening only at key points to give feedback.
50%UnverifiedCron triggers a task once per minute, so collection, deduplication and ranking keep happening even when the person steps away from the keyboard.
50%UnverifiedJev is a classifier used to judge relevance, identify duplicates, check factual consistency and even help generate presentation content, with a single classification call taking less than half a second and costing extremely little.
50%UnverifiedThe system uses a cheap classifier (Jev) as a gate, so that expensive language models only process content that could become signal, in order to control token costs during continuous operation.
50%UnverifiedThe Durable News Agent system uses a layered architecture: at the bottom is a SQLite database, above that is the persistent task capability provided by Pi Durable, above that it is wrapped as an API, and the outermost layer consists of thin clients such as browser, terminal TUI, CLI and Cron.
50%UnverifiedThe Durable News Agent settings panel maintains a keyword list and news source links, covering sources such as Hacker News, Latent Space, Claude Code, Anthropic, OpenAI and Simon Willison.
50%UnverifiedDurable News Agent has its own toolset, including running news scans, listing candidates, reading entries, searching the web, fetching URLs, researching entries, Jev classification, presenting news, presenting timelines, and asking the user about tastes.
50%UnverifiedThe system has been running continuously for more than a day and has captured entries such as Anthropic's "code merge volume up nearly tenfold since May", which was marked as mostly hype.
50%UnverifiedThrough a conversational instruction, the user asked to increase the Gemini weight; after reading the settings file, the agent raised the Gemini keyword weight from 1.2 to 1.3, and all subsequent scans followed this preference.
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