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Chrome extension that replaces your new tab with one AI headline — ranked by signal strength, not recency.

Status: Shipped — v1.0.0, 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 pulls from 29 RSS/Atom feeds in parallel (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, xAI, HuggingFace, TechCrunch, Hacker News, Reddit ML, etc.) every 5 minutes and scores each story 0–100 based on:

• Source tier (15 pts)
• Cross-source coverage — 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 (no DOMParser — service worker can't use it).

Install

Not yet on Chrome Web Store. To load locally:

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