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The method
The Bureaucracy is a Hacker News-style radar for people preparing to run the state. It keeps one day of policy journalism, ranks it for the syllabus, and then throws it away. The constraint is the product.
Most current-affairs products are archives. They reward accumulation: another PDF, another monthly compilation, another tab left open. The civil services examination does not test accumulation. It tests whether you can take one event, place it against a syllabus theme, and argue about it under time pressure.
So this site does the opposite of an archive. It shows the last 24 hours, ranked by reader attention and exam relevance. When a story falls out of the window it leaves the live feed and moves to the archive. If it still matters tomorrow, it will be part of a newer story.
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Every 15 minutes, a scheduled job pulls public RSS feeds from official publishers, newspapers, explainers and Google News queries. No paid APIs, no scraping behind paywalls.
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Publisher suffixes are stripped, Hindi and prep material are dropped, coaching domains are blocked, and near-duplicate headlines are merged into a single story.
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Each headline and excerpt is scored against a syllabus taxonomy: twelve themes across Prelims, GS I–IV and Essay, plus six popular optionals. The strongest signal becomes the primary tag.
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Likes, dislikes, comments and the relevance baseline feed the ranking. Everything older than 24 hours leaves the live wire and moves to the searchable archive.
signal = seed + likes + 1.35·comments − 0.55·dislikes
score = (signal + 1) / (ageHours + 2)1.8 × (0.78 + 0.006·relevance) × authority × freshness
The feed also caps how many stories one publisher can hold in the top slots, so a single newspaper cannot own the front page. Today's five is different: it is strictly the five most syllabus-relevant stories, diversified by topic and paper, so a viral story cannot push out an important policy document.
Twelve themes cover the general-studies papers: polity, governance, economy, international relations, environment, science and technology, security, society, art and culture, ethics, reports and indices, and exam alerts. Each theme carries a paper, a short rationale, answer hooks and cue words. The syllabus map shows what is live under each paper.
The six optionals — PSIR, Geography, Sociology, Public Administration, History and Anthropology — are a second lens on the same wire. A story can be general current affairs and optional material; the optional tags do not change the main ranking, they only unlock the optional feeds.
All feeds are public and free. Official releases are marked with a red dot. Google News is used only as a discovery layer for English-language Indian publishers; the story always links to the original.
| Source | Type | Note |
|---|---|---|
| PIB | official | Press Information Bureau releases, via Google News (English). |
| RBI | official | Reserve Bank of India press releases. |
| The Hindu | news | Public RSS feed. |
| The Hindu Business | news | Public RSS feed. |
| The Hindu Sci-Tech | news | Public RSS feed. |
| Indian Express | news | Public RSS feed. |
| Indian Express Explained | analysis | Public RSS feed. |
| Indian Express Economy | news | Public RSS feed. |
| Mint | news | Public RSS feed. |
| Mongabay India | analysis | Public RSS feed. |
| Parliament watch | aggregator | Public RSS feed. |
| Courts watch | aggregator | Public RSS feed. |
| Economy watch | aggregator | Public RSS feed. |
| Diplomacy watch | aggregator | Public RSS feed. |
| Climate watch | aggregator | Public RSS feed. |
| Schemes watch | aggregator | Public RSS feed. |
| PSIR watch | aggregator | Optional lens: political theory, institutions and India's external posture. |
| Geography watch | aggregator | Optional lens: physical processes, hazards and resource geography. |
| Sociology watch | aggregator | Optional lens: social structure, stratification and change. |
| Public Admin watch | aggregator | Optional lens: administration, accountability and policy delivery. |
| History watch | aggregator | Optional lens: ancient, medieval and modern India; art and heritage. |
| Anthropology watch | aggregator | Optional lens: tribal societies, kinship, ritual and material culture. |
| Exam alerts | aggregator | Public RSS feed. |
Masthead portrait: VIVA CHE, Jim Fitzpatrick (1968), from the editor's personal copy. The portrait is a masthead reference, not an endorsement of any political position.
Headlines and excerpts belong to their publishers. The ranking, taxonomy and interface are released under the repository's licence. Built by 0xMudit.
Editor — Muditya Raghav (0xmudit@gmail.com)