I Built an AI Pipeline That Reads 20+ Tech Sources So I Don't Have To

I was drowning in tabs every morning. Hacker News, GitHub Trending, ArXiv, TechCrunch, AI lab blogs — all open, half-read, mostly redundant. The same Claude 4.5 announcement on 8 different sites. The same trending repo summarized in 3 newsletters. Sound familiar? So I built ScanBrief — an AI-powered intelligence pipeline that does my morning reading in 2 minutes. What It Does ScanBrief ingests from 20+ high-signal sources on a daily schedule: Hacker News (Firebase API — top 30 stories with points/comments) GitHub Trending (daily trending repos with star counts) ArXiv (cs.AI, cs.LG, cs.SE) AI Lab Blogs (OpenAI, Google AI, Anthropic) Tech Press (TechCrunch, Ars Technica, The Verge) Product Hunt, Reddit, Dev.to (coming in Sprint 1) Then it: Deduplicates — URL hash + fuzzy title matching. Same story on HN and Reddit? You see it once. Scores — Source authority × novelty bonus. Not just popularity — actual signal quality. Summarizes — Claude AI generates 2-sentence summaries for the top 15 i