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1 points·by antiochIst·27 dagen geleden·0 comments

Show HN: Improved real-time news propagation tracking via source citation graphs

yandori.io
1 points·by antiochIst·7 maanden geleden·1 comments

I tracked 677k newly launched websites in November. Here's the breakdown

websitelaunches.com
2 points·by antiochIst·7 maanden geleden·6 comments

Show HN: Real-time system that tracks how news spreads across 200k websites

yandori.io
256 points·by antiochIst·8 maanden geleden·74 comments

We Tracked Every Website That Launched in September 2025. The Data Is Wild

websitelaunches.com
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antiochIst
·27 dagen geleden·discuss
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antiochIst
·6 maanden geleden·discuss
The story spread from Bloomberg at 12:01 PM as first to report, then amplified by x.com and 9to5mac, followed by feeds.macrumors, machash, and appleworld.today. Yandori tracked 45 sources with 10 citations showing how the news propagated: https://yandori.io/news-flow/story/2026-01-21-9996613-apple-...
antiochIst
·6 maanden geleden·discuss
You can track how this story spread from CNN at 3:32 PM as first to report, then whistleblower.org, peters.senate.gov, and eventually scienceblog.com and democracydocket.com. Yandori shows 54 sources picked it up with 48 citations: https://yandori.io/news-flow/story/2026-01-20-9734134-trump-...
antiochIst
·6 maanden geleden·discuss
Interesting to see how this news spread across 45+ media outlets. Yandori tracked the news flow from AP News at 9:31 AM as first to report, then blog.google as the amplifier around 8:07 AM, followed by mashable and other tech sites. You can see the full timeline at https://yandori.io/news-flow/story/2026-01-22-10232467-say-g...
antiochIst
·6 maanden geleden·discuss
Interesting to see how this story developed across 60 news sources: https://yandori.io/news-flow/story/2026-01-21-10020950-takea...
antiochIst
·6 maanden geleden·discuss
You can see how this story spread across 52 sources over 21 hours here: https://yandori.io/news-flow/story/2026-01-22-10318781-amazo...
antiochIst
·6 maanden geleden·discuss
Full news story coverage/flow here: https://yandori.io/news-flow/story/2026-01-07-6507910-federa...
antiochIst
·6 maanden geleden·discuss
Full news coverage/flow here: https://yandori.io/news-flow/story/2026-01-07-6507910-federa...
antiochIst
·7 maanden geleden·discuss
Here is a clear example (sad news) but you can see how it breaks (via twitter here) and then flows: https://yandori.io/news-flow/story/2025-12-18-3003874-nascar...
antiochIst
·7 maanden geleden·discuss
I have a bunch of heuristics - but broadly speaking a new domain + a new good looking site. ie: some legit pages, legit socials, and some real owner/purpose behind it.
antiochIst
·7 maanden geleden·discuss
I don't know if drop shipping is still viable, but there are lots of those types of sites so...
antiochIst
·7 maanden geleden·discuss
I run a system that tracks newly launched websites worldwide. In November it detected 677,544 new sites across 392 countries.

Some findings from the dataset:

Geography (top countries):

United States: 253,589

India: 34,127

Canada: 20,263

United Kingdom: 18,701

Pakistan: 10,124

(392 total countries)

Industries:

E-commerce: 164,010

Adult & Gambling: large category overall

Gambling (L2): 84,353

News & Blogs: 49,424

SaaS products: 39,105

Niches (L3):

Online Casinos: 81,608

Clothing: 33,553

Niche SaaS tools: 31,881

Home Decor: 31,273

News & Journalism: 29,750

Platforms (detected on ~295k sites):

WordPress: 116,250

Shopify: 84,407

WooCommerce: 42,615

Squarespace: 25,328

Wix: 23,598

Webflow: 3,049

TLDs: .com: 435,622

.store: 38,223

.org: 26,474

.online: 23,422

.site: 22,919

.ai: 6,167

Happy to answer questions about methodology, accuracy, crawling, classification, or detection heuristics.
antiochIst
·7 maanden geleden·discuss
Thanks - I got fix for this.
antiochIst
·7 maanden geleden·discuss
FYI - I'll integrate this if anyone want to pay for twitter api fees.
antiochIst
·7 maanden geleden·discuss
I think this could be done, but would require paying more than I want to for the highest level of api access...
antiochIst
·7 maanden geleden·discuss
Yea there is some spam stuff for sure... working on improving filtering it out...

I get most of it, but I think especially around the holiday some stuff is getting through... Some black friday deals were actually hitting like news does...
antiochIst
·7 maanden geleden·discuss
You can kinda tell based on the distribution. Organic spread has less similarity between articles, less syndication, more spread out in timeline of releases...

Some stories are very clearly manufactured
antiochIst
·7 maanden geleden·discuss
I'm polling rss feeds from a bunch top 200k sites in the world.

Thanks for that bug feedback - ill get fix.
antiochIst
·7 maanden geleden·discuss
ehh, timezones handles just with some basic parsing logic...

I'm not pulling from social media yet.
antiochIst
·7 maanden geleden·discuss
Yea I feel you... Honestly I kinda just whipped this thing up in context of a larger project I'm working on.. so i have not given much thought to who it will serve. "rooting out bias" is interesting idea... But a bit negative in nature, I was more hoping to identify & highlight the original/powerful sources of news...