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• October 16, 2026

Which news articles should I read this weekend By Rahul Saxena

I built a prompt for Claude to read and rate articles from top open-access news sources, de-duplicated to one exemplar per story. That gives me a curated list of news articles to read: filtered, de-duplicated, scored, and ranked for my concerns.

Top 100 by distance √(relevance² + rating²)

Ties are broken by relevance, then recency.

1. Russia accuses Ukraine of attacking oil refinery after Zelensky says strikes to resume — BBC News (+1 similar)
   Violence · relevance 4 · rating −4 · distance 5.66
   Ukraine war escalates: energy strikes resume, US support wavers, 850 drones

2. The Houthis’ Saudi attacks are ‘unprecedented.’ Trump wants to ‘ignore’ them until the midterms, but the chaos may force U.S. to respond — Fortune
   Violence · relevance 4 · rating −4 · distance 5.66
   Houthi strikes on Saudi airport/Aramco kill 20+; Iran war escalation risk

3. ‘I am still a child, it cannot be good to be married’: how drought forces Afghan families to sell girls as brides — The Guardian
   Famine · relevance 4 · rating −4 · distance 5.66
   Climate drought and hunger force Afghan families to sell child brides

4. How Europe’s most wanted cocaine trafficker turned Sierra Leone into the world’s first true narco state — The Guardian
   Violence · relevance 4 · rating −4 · distance 5.66
   Trafficker captured Sierra Leone state; killings, corruption, regional narco spread.

5. Two container ships sink near strait of Hormuz amid surge in Iranian attacks — The Guardian
   Violence · relevance 4 · rating −4 · distance 5.66
   Iranian missile strikes sink two ships; Hormuz closure, fuel prices surge.

6. ‘How do you explain the deletion of 130 million names?’: why Indian voters are on the streets — The Guardian (+1 similar)
   Decide · relevance 4 · rating −4 · distance 5.66
   130 million removed from India’s voter rolls; disenfranchisement, protests, detentions.

7. Congo’s Confirmed Ebola Cases Exceed 9,000 as Containment Efforts Falter — MedPage Today
   Disease & pollution · relevance 4 · rating −4 · distance 5.66
   Congo Bundibugyo Ebola exceeds 9,000 cases, 4,381 deaths; containment failing

8. Future of western security is at stake in Yemen civil war, says country’s former PM — The Guardian
   Violence · relevance 4 · rating −3 · distance 5.00
   Houthi offensive on Taiz escalates Yemen war, ending ceasefire calm

9. CJP, Abhijeet Dipke: India’s ‘cockroach’ protesters set to return despite police crackdown — BBC News (+1 similar)
   Decide · relevance 4 · rating −3 · distance 5.00
   Indian police crackdown on electoral-reform protests; 130m voter roll deletions alleged

10. Houthi missile attack on Yemeni presidential palace kills five, minister says — BBC News (+1 similar)
    Violence · relevance 4 · rating −3 · distance 5.00
    Houthi missiles kill five at Aden palace; Yemen war escalating, cholera surge

11. Hundreds of IDF investigations into killings without public outcome, BBC Verify finds — BBC News
    Violence · relevance 4 · rating −3 · distance 5.00
    IDF leaves hundreds of killing investigations unresolved; accountability gap in war

12. Chevron CEO warns oil buffers that cushioned the Iran war shock have been ‘drained’—and diesel relief may not come until 2027 — Fortune
    Thrive · relevance 4 · rating −3 · distance 5.00
    Iran war drains oil buffers; record diesel prices into 2027

13. Indonesia fights fire with dry ice as toxic haze spreads across region — The Guardian
    Disease & pollution · relevance 4 · rating −3 · distance 5.00
    Worst Indonesian fire season in decade; toxic haze sickens region, dry-ice trial

14. Thwaites Glacier’s projected sea level impact doubles as warm water melts ice below — Interesting Engineering
    Climate change · relevance 4 · rating −3 · distance 5.00
    Thwaites could double sea-level contribution; major climate threat

15. Ukraine says SpaceX hampers drones for attack and defence, as US ties fray — Reuters (+1 similar)
    Violence · relevance 4 · rating −3 · distance 5.00
    Starlink limits hamper Ukraine drones; Russian strikes kill civilians, cut power

16. This year’s ‘super’ El Niño could wreak ecological havoc worldwide — Science (AAAS)
    Nurture · relevance 4 · rating −3 · distance 5.00
    Record El Niño threatens kelp, reefs, droughts and ecosystems worldwide

17. Children and teacher killed in Oregon primary school shooting — BBC News (+1 similar)
    Violence · relevance 3 · rating −3 · distance 4.24
    Teen gunman kills three children and teacher at Oregon school

18. Same-day test helps doctors detect hidden infections in critically ill children — BBC News
    Disease & pollution · relevance 3 · rating +3 · distance 4.24
    Metagenomic test finds drug-resistant infections, aids antimicrobial stewardship, pandemic detection

19. French police accused over war-like injuries to teenagers in school protests — The Guardian
    Decide · relevance 3 · rating −3 · distance 4.24
    French police maim teens, mass child arrests in school protests; civil liberties

20. Severe drought declared in parts of southern England — BBC News
    Water shortage · relevance 3 · rating −3 · distance 4.24
    Severe drought in southern England; reservoirs critically low, hosepipe bans, farm impact

21. Peshawar: At least 33 pupils and teacher killed after Pakistan school roof collapses — BBC News (+1 similar)
    Accidents & disasters · relevance 3 · rating −3 · distance 4.24
    School roof collapse kills 33 pupils and teacher in Peshawar

22. Seven crew missing after drone attack leaves tanker ablaze off Romania’s coast — BBC News
    Violence · relevance 3 · rating −3 · distance 4.24
    Drone attack on Black Sea tanker leaves seven missing; NATO escalation risk

23. Brazil’s Congress approves shorter working week in win for Lula — BBC News (+2 similar)
    Thrive · relevance 3 · rating +3 · distance 4.24
    Brazil cuts work week to 40 hours for 30m workers, no pay loss

24. The hidden costs of fracking: boom in Argentina linked to trail of sickness — The Guardian
    Disease & pollution · relevance 3 · rating −3 · distance 4.24
    Vaca Muerta fracking linked to cancers, miscarriages; no state monitoring

25. A perfect storm: how the super El Niño is devastating the fishing industry — The Guardian
    Famine · relevance 3 · rating −3 · distance 4.24
    Super El Niño and overfishing shut Peru anchoveta fishery; global feed shock

26. LGBTQ+ people go into hiding in Senegal as hundreds are arrested — The Guardian
    Decide · relevance 3 · rating −3 · distance 4.24
    Senegal mass LGBTQ+ arrests, harsher law, forced HIV testing deterring treatment.

27. Long-Acting HIV Shot Works Just Fine for Patients With Adherence Issues — MedPage Today
    Disease & pollution · relevance 3 · rating +3 · distance 4.24
    Long-acting HIV injectable noninferior in African patients with adherence problems

28. Intense waves and floods batter California waterfront homes and boardwalks — The Guardian
    Accidents & disasters · relevance 3 · rating −3 · distance 4.24
    Storm floods damage California homes; El Niño threatens severe winter.

29. Russian ornithologist sentenced to prison for anticorruption donation — Science (AAAS)
    Decide · relevance 3 · rating −3 · distance 4.24
    Scientist jailed for tiny donation; repression of civil liberties in Russia

30. First Utility-Scale Enhanced Geothermal Plant Goes Live — IEEE Spectrum
    Climate change · relevance 3 · rating +3 · distance 4.24
    Fervo’s Utah enhanced-geothermal plant begins selling carbon-free power to grid

31. Evacuations issued as multiple wildfires ignite in hot, windy California — The Guardian
    Accidents & disasters · relevance 3 · rating −2 · distance 3.61
    Multiple California wildfires force evacuations amid Santa Ana winds, El Niño

32. World’s first fast-spectrum molten chloride reactor experiment nears critical testing — Interesting Engineering
    Thrive · relevance 3 · rating +2 · distance 3.61
    Fast-spectrum molten chloride reactor experiment advances toward critical testing

33. US appeals court invalidates federal $9 billion telecom subsidy fund — Reuters
    Thrive · relevance 3 · rating −2 · distance 3.61
    Court invalidates fund subsidizing rural, low-income, school connectivity

34. Oil heads for weekly gain with Mideast supply risks — Reuters
    Thrive · relevance 3 · rating −2 · distance 3.61
    Hormuz attacks keep oil above $105; IEA release offers partial relief

35. School headscarf ban sparks rare protests in Azerbaijan and row with Turkey — BBC News
    Decide · relevance 3 · rating −2 · distance 3.61
    Azerbaijan hijab ban enforced with detentions, censorship; religious liberty curbed

36. Letters with ‘suspicious substances’ sent to US senators and election offices — BBC News (+1 similar)
    Decide · relevance 3 · rating −2 · distance 3.61
    Suspicious powder letters target senators, election offices before midterms

37. Trump’s former top crypto advisor faces scrutiny over allegations his firm accepted millions from Tether while he shaped key stablecoin law — Fortune
    Decide · relevance 3 · rating −2 · distance 3.61
    Alleged conflict of interest: Trump crypto adviser paid via Tether firm

38. Skydance’s merger exposes a gap between what pays for media and what democracy needs — Fortune
    Decide · relevance 3 · rating −2 · distance 3.61
    Skydance media merger concentrates news ownership; risk to democratic information

39. ‘When you’re given gifts, you take ’em’: Trump defends using Qatari luxury jet as Air Force One — Fortune
    Decide · relevance 3 · rating −2 · distance 3.61
    Trump defends accepting Qatari jet gift; ethics norms erosion in midterm campaign

40. Exclusive: Stand raises $70 million at $1 billion valuation to price wildfire risk by treating homes like airplanes in flight — Fortune
    Accidents & disasters · relevance 3 · rating +2 · distance 3.61
    Insurer uses physics simulation to price wildfire risk, guide home hardening

41. Suddenly, Wall Street is worried that the U.S. economy is more ‘vulnerable’ than it looks — Fortune
    Thrive · relevance 3 · rating −2 · distance 3.61
    Signs of US slowdown: weak hiring, 3.7% inflation, tech selloff, bond swings

42. The global economy is muddling through against the odds. But a storm is coming | Larry Elliott — The Guardian
    Thrive · relevance 3 · rating −2 · distance 3.61
    Opinion: resilient global economy faces war, energy shock, weak multilateralism

43. How Gaza changed Europe, exposing cracks that grow bigger by the week | Shada Islam — The Guardian
    Decide · relevance 3 · rating −2 · distance 3.61
    Opinion: Gaza exposes European curbs on protest and anti-Muslim suspicion

44. Revealed: Serbian ruler’s secret role in ‘illegal’ effort to help Trump business — The Guardian
    Decide · relevance 3 · rating −2 · distance 3.61
    Vučić personally pushed allegedly illegal Trump Tower scheme; corruption ahead of election

45. Milei adviser claims UK being ‘colonised by Islam’ as Falklands row grows — The Guardian
    Violence · relevance 3 · rating −2 · distance 3.61
    Milei adviser’s Islamophobic post escalates Falklands sovereignty tensions with UK

46. Online ads weaponised to deliver ‘zero-click’ spyware, researchers say — The Guardian
    Decide · relevance 3 · rating −2 · distance 3.61
    Ad network weaponised to deliver zero-click spyware to journalists, officials

47. Tech market sell-off deepens amid fears over US inflation and AI debt — The Guardian
    Thrive · relevance 3 · rating −2 · distance 3.61
    Global AI-stock sell-off on rising US inflation; IMF warns stability risk.

48. Resources minister faces calls to correct her claim all Beetaloo emissions will be offset — The Guardian
    Climate change · relevance 3 · rating −2 · distance 3.61
    Minister’s false claim; ~95% Beetaloo gas emissions won’t be offset.

49. China completes world’s first commercial green ammonia ship-to-ship fuel transfer — Interesting Engineering
    Climate change · relevance 3 · rating +2 · distance 3.61
    First commercial green ammonia bunkering; shipping decarbonisation step

50. Bamboo-based fuel with 26-fold lower greenhouse emissions could power vehicles, planes — Interesting Engineering
    Climate change · relevance 3 · rating +2 · distance 3.61
    Bamboo fuel modelled with far lower emissions, low cost

51. Nvidia, Apple each gave $25 million for Trump’s ballroom, Washington Post reports — Reuters
    Decide · relevance 3 · rating −2 · distance 3.61
    Undisclosed corporate donations to president’s ballroom raise influence concerns

52. Diesel’s surge is starting to push other prices around. Here’s how — Reuters
    Thrive · relevance 3 · rating −2 · distance 3.61
    Record diesel prices push freight and food input costs sharply higher

53. Anthropic grants outside evaluator METR employee-level access in AI safety push — Reuters
    Decide · relevance 3 · rating +2 · distance 3.61
    Anthropic gives independent evaluator deep access for AI risk oversight

54. IEA to speed up oil stocks release including over 20 million barrels of diesel — Reuters
    Thrive · relevance 3 · rating +2 · distance 3.61
    IEA accelerates emergency diesel and oil release to ease prices

55. US producer prices post largest gain in 4-1/2 years; expensive gasoline boosts retail sales — Reuters
    Thrive · relevance 3 · rating −2 · distance 3.61
    US producer prices surge; inflation outpacing wages strains households

56. Oil shipping costs spike, lifting prices from pump to grocery — Reuters
    Thrive · relevance 3 · rating −2 · distance 3.61
    Tanker freight costs ninefold, raising fuel and food prices worldwide

57. US FTC subpoenas OpenAI and Anthropic over consumer harms, Axios reports — Reuters
    Decide · relevance 3 · rating +2 · distance 3.61
    FTC subpoenas AI labs over safety incidents; regulation of powerful tech

58. Trump administration advances plan for peptide drugs favored by RFK Jr. — STAT News (+1 similar)
    Decide · relevance 3 · rating −2 · distance 3.61
    HHS moves to let pharmacies compound unproven peptides, overriding FDA scientists

59. Merck and Moderna have ‘lot of exploring to do’ after initial cancer vaccine success — STAT News
    Thrive · relevance 3 · rating +2 · distance 3.61
    Merck-Moderna mRNA cancer vaccine cut melanoma recurrence; expanding to other tumors

60. Kenya reports second Ebola case — STAT News
    Disease & pollution · relevance 3 · rating −2 · distance 3.61
    Kenya second Ebola case; Congo outbreak over 9,000 cases; teen binge eating

61. Albania protests: Student protesters attack government ministries in Tirana — BBC News (+1 similar)
    Decide · relevance 3 · rating −2 · distance 3.61
    Violent Albanian student protests over corruption; ministries attacked

62. From black soldier flies to mealworms: farming insects for food, fodder and fertiliser in Uganda — The Guardian
    Famine · relevance 3 · rating +2 · distance 3.61
    Refugees farm insects for feed, food security and income in Uganda.

63. Israel blocks construction of key Gaza base created by Trump peace board — The Guardian
    Violence · relevance 3 · rating −2 · distance 3.61
    Israel blocks Gaza stabilization base, stalling reconstruction and security force.

64. New UK sanctions powers will enable action against supporters of illegal Israeli settlements — The Guardian
    Decide · relevance 3 · rating +2 · distance 3.61
    UK widens sanctions to target illegal settlement enablers and aid obstruction.

65. Russia Just Added More Su-34s to Its War Fleet. These Are The New Upgrades — Interesting Engineering [teaser only]
    Violence · relevance 3 · rating −2 · distance 3.61
    Russia adds Su-34 bombers used in Ukraine war

66. Deaths Halt Trial of Hemodialysis for Acute Kidney Injury — MedPage Today
    Disease & pollution · relevance 3 · rating +2 · distance 3.61
    Trial halted: intermittent hemodialysis raises ICU AKI deaths; guides practice to continuous

67. Combination Cuts Kidney Injury Risk Following Septic Shock Procedure — MedPage Today
    Disease & pollution · relevance 3 · rating +2 · distance 3.61
    RCT: dobutamine plus norepinephrine cuts AKI in septic shock surgery

68. NIAID Nominee Nixed; CDC Funds Hep B Vax Study; ‘Earth-Shaking’ Vax Battle — MedPage Today
    Decide · relevance 3 · rating −2 · distance 3.61
    Politicized CDC: unethical hep B trial funded, bird flu plan killed, law broken

69. China’s extraordinary rise in science and how it will change the world — Nature (+2 similar)
    Thrive · relevance 3 · rating +2 · distance 3.61
    China’s R&D surge makes it global science powerhouse, with integrity concerns

70. US inflation heats up in September; Fed rate hike this month back on table — Reuters
    Thrive · relevance 3 · rating −2 · distance 3.61
    US CPI 3.7% on gasoline surge; real wages falling, squeezing households

71. Eight US states sue OpenAI, claiming ChatGPT harms young users — Reuters (+1 similar)
    Decide · relevance 3 · rating +2 · distance 3.61
    Eight states sue OpenAI over ChatGPT harms; legal check on AI

72. Fed survey shows price pressures intensifying as fuel costs rise — Reuters
    Thrive · relevance 3 · rating −2 · distance 3.61
    Beige Book: diesel-driven inflation spreading, hiring frozen, housing squeezed

73. Can predictive tools tell us who will really benefit from antidepressants? — Science (AAAS)
    Thrive · relevance 3 · rating +2 · distance 3.61
    Research on predicting antidepressant response could improve depression treatment

74. Former FDA officials blast DOGE as ‘one of the biggest disasters in American history’ — STAT News (+1 similar)
    Decide · relevance 3 · rating −2 · distance 3.61
    Ex-FDA chiefs: DOGE cuts gutted FDA expertise; some leadership recovery

75. As White House shifts focus toward AI and tech, U.S. science leaders defend role of the American university — STAT News
    Decide · relevance 3 · rating −2 · distance 3.61
    Federal grant cuts shrink US graduate science; China overtaking research

76. Can GLP-1s heal the brain? Obesity drugs get a makeover for addiction and depression — Nature
    Thrive · relevance 3 · rating +2 · distance 3.61
    Pharma trials GLP-1 drugs for alcohol addiction, depression, Parkinson’s

77. OpenAI just changed math forever. Exactly how, no one yet knows — Science (AAAS) (+1 similar)
    Thrive · relevance 3 · rating +2 · distance 3.61
    AI produces hundreds of math results; big productivity leap, disruption for researchers

78. ‘I want to do everything I can to head off dementia’: why demand for the shingles vaccine is soaring — The Guardian
    Disease & pollution · relevance 3 · rating +2 · distance 3.61
    Rising shingles vaccine uptake; evidence suggests ~20% lower dementia risk.

79. ICJ judge Navi Pillay wins Nobel peace prize for promoting international law — The Guardian
    Decide · relevance 3 · rating +2 · distance 3.61
    Nobel to Pillay affirms international law; US sanctions ICC same day.

80. U.S. crop genome sequencing gets $180 million boost — Science (AAAS)
    Famine · relevance 3 · rating +2 · distance 3.61
    USDA funds germplasm sequencing to breed resilient, higher-yield crops

81. Are student protests being manipulated ahead France’s presidential election? — BBC News
    Decide · relevance 3 · rating −1 · distance 3.16
    French student protests, fiscal stress, polarisation before presidential election

82. Pope Leo XIV has lung cancer despite never smoking. Lung cancer screening only targets people who did — Fortune
    Disease & pollution · relevance 3 · rating +1 · distance 3.16
    Rising lung cancer in never-smokers; argues for broader screening

83. At Singapore launch, Anthropic defends its oversight of how customers use its model, citing AI’s ‘dual use’ risks — Fortune
    Decide · relevance 3 · rating +1 · distance 3.16
    Anthropic keeps misuse oversight citing dual-use risks; warns on open weights

84. As Social Security races toward insolvency, retirees are getting their biggest COLA boost in 4 years — Fortune
    Thrive · relevance 3 · rating −1 · distance 3.16
    Inflation-driven 3.6% COLA; Social Security trust fund insolvent by 2032

85. Wes Streeting urges US to back Ukraine on Washington visit after Starlink row — The Guardian
    Violence · relevance 3 · rating +1 · distance 3.16
    UK lobbies US to back Ukraine after Starlink throttling; access restored.

86. Thames Water asks for £2.4bn more to avoid going bust this year or early 2027 — The Guardian
    Water shortage · relevance 3 · rating −1 · distance 3.16
    Thames Water seeks £2.4bn more to avoid collapse; 16m customers’ utility.

87. How Aramco learned to keep pumping oil under fire — Reuters
    Thrive · relevance 3 · rating +1 · distance 3.16
    Aramco rapidly restores output after war attacks, sustaining energy supply

88. Trump’s AI task force to meet Thursday, FTC spokesperson says — Reuters
    Decide · relevance 3 · rating +1 · distance 3.16
    Federal AI task force convenes to shape approach to AI risks

89. EU leaders kick off summit with wrangles over high energy prices and spending — Reuters
    Thrive · relevance 3 · rating −1 · distance 3.16
    EU summit split on energy prices, budget, ETS weakening push; no resolution

90. IMF warns of slowing Asian growth, spillover from rising yields — Reuters
    Thrive · relevance 3 · rating −1 · distance 3.16
    IMF sees Asian growth slowing on energy shock, yields, AI risk

91. Brent steady as US weighs easing sanctions on global ‘shadow fleet’ — Reuters
    Violence · relevance 3 · rating −1 · distance 3.16
    Ships sunk near Hormuz, Houthi-Saudi conflict escalates; IEA reserve release

92. How data centres became the sleeper issue that could decide the US midterms — BBC News
    Decide · relevance 3 · rating +1 · distance 3.16
    Voter backlash pushes politicians to regulate AI data centre expansion

93. My son killed himself after falling victim to an online scam. I heard it happen – and vowed to protect other children — The Guardian
    Suicide · relevance 3 · rating +1 · distance 3.16
    Sextortion-driven teen suicide; father campaigns for online child safety laws.

94. Guinea-Bissau denies it has approved controversial vaccine trial in newborns — The Guardian (+1 similar)
    Disease & pollution · relevance 3 · rating +1 · distance 3.16
    Guinea-Bissau denies approving RFK-backed unethical newborn hepatitis B trial.

95. Streamed Execution Sparks PTSD Concerns; 17% of Teens Anxious; Actor Dies of Suicide — MedPage Today
    Suicide · relevance 3 · rating −1 · distance 3.16
    Mental health roundup: actor suicide, teen anxiety untreated, Black suicide rise

96. AI-Generated Viruses Pose a Threat. But Natural Viruses Are a Greater Risk. — MedPage Today
    Disease & pollution · relevance 3 · rating +1 · distance 3.16
    Virologist op-ed: regulate AI virus design; prioritize zoonotic pandemic surveillance

97. Protecting nature means valuing biodiversity — Nature
    Nurture · relevance 3 · rating +1 · distance 3.16
    Editorial: wildlife down 73%; urges valuing nature in finance before COP17

98. Opinion: How states can resist the potential Trump vaccine shortages — STAT News
    Disease & pollution · relevance 3 · rating +1 · distance 3.16
    Op-ed: states should build public vaccine factories against federal-induced shortages

99. Opinion: Lethal injection will never be the same after Christa Pike’s botched execution — STAT News
    Violence · relevance 3 · rating −1 · distance 3.16
    Op-ed: botched Pike execution exposes lethal injection, may end it

100. London suburban housing project wins top UK architecture award — BBC News
     Thrive · relevance 2 · rating +2 · distance 2.83
     Award for affordable high-density housing integrating green space

Method and limits

• Filtered: only for items dated 9–16 October (last week’s news). Since most feeds expose only their latest items, coverage is heavier on 13–16 October 2026. Articles are pulled from two leading open-access sources in each of five fields (General: BBC News and The Guardian; Engineering: IEEE Spectrum and Interesting Engineering; Medicine: STAT News and MedPage Today; Science: Nature and Science; Business: Reuters and Fortune).

• De-duplicated: articles reporting the same event were grouped, across and within sources (for example the Oregon school shooting in BBC and Guardian, or six Reuters pieces on CoreWeave’s debt troubles). One exemplar was kept per group: the fullest straight news report, preferring the general-news source when quality was similar. Related but distinct articles (an explainer versus a news report on a different angle) were kept separately.

• Scored: for relevance to the concern tree in Survive, Thrive, Nurture: an agenda in a slogan (0–5) and for direction (−5 makes things worse, +5 helps). Each exemplar’s body text (up to about 9,000 characters) was read and scored. Scoring was done in parallel batches against one written rubric; treat individual scores as approximate.

  • Relevance: 1 light touch, 3 substantial national-scale bearing, 5 direct large-scale threat or remedy.

  • Rating: never exceeds relevance; zero relevance means zero rating. Reports of harm are rated by the harm; responses and remedies are rated positive.

• Ranked: based on Euclidean distance calculated as √(relevance² + rating²)

Prompt

The prompt is attached, so you can replicate it yourself. Copy everything below the line into Claude. Change the two dates first. It works best in an environment where Claude can use a real web browser (to read full article text) and run sub-agents in parallel.
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Build an interactive HTML page called **”Relevant News”**. It shows how one week of news bears on the concern list in Rahul Saxena’s blog post “Survive, Thrive, Nurture: an agenda in a slogan” (https://ramblingrahul.blogspot.com/2019/04/survive-thrive-nurture-agenda-in-slogan.html).

• Date window: articles published from **{START_DATE}** to **{END_DATE}** inclusive (7 days).

• The concern list (score against this):

  • Decide on how to make the decisions needed to survive, thrive, and nurture. Includes (1) individual decisions or personal choices, (2) shared-value decisions (most organizational and corporate choices), and (3) value-exploration decisions where the values themselves are debated (democratic governance, elections, rule of law, civil liberties, institutions, regulation of powerful technologies).

  • Survive: staying alive as an individual, family, group or species. Survival concerns include cosmic or planetary catastrophes, environmental change (from poor management of agriculture, energy and transport), disease (civil-engineering failures, chemical and environmental pollution, public-health failures, antibiotic resistance, vaccine refusal, new pathogens), violence (murder, war, organized crime, insurgency, terrorism, capital punishment, new weapons such as bio-agents or autonomous drones), famine (unsustainable farming, soil depletion, crop failure, food-supply shocks), water shortage, accidents (road, industrial, domestic) and natural disasters, or suicide. Extending individual lifespan is separately called out here as an opposing item in this list.

  • Thrive: a better standard of living. This covers basic needs (food, clothing, shelter), access to energy, healthcare, education and transport, and reducing losses between provision and beneficiary (corruption, fraud, waste, transmission losses). It also covers better health, more leisure, better food and drink, and entertainment. The economy, jobs, prices, and technology that raises living standards belong here.

  • Nurture: helping other living beings survive and thrive, moving outward from pets, to farm and commercial plants and animals, to all life on Earth (biodiversity, conservation), to all life in the universe.

• Sources: two leading open-access sources per field

  • General: BBC News, The Guardian

  • Engineering: IEEE Spectrum, Interesting Engineering

  • Medicine: STAT News, MedPage Today

  • Science: Nature, Science

  • Business: Reuters (Business section via the site’s own content API, latest 120), Fortune

• Collection rules

  • Keep only items dated inside the window. Most feeds expose only their latest items, so record how far back each source actually reaches and report it on the page.

  • Skip video, gallery, audio and live-blog URLs.

  • Fetch each article’s page and extract the body text. Prefer JSON-LD `articleBody`, fall back to `<p>` text, and cap it at about 9,000 characters.

  • Drop items with no readable text.

  • A cloud sandbox is usually blocked by these sites. Fetch from a real browser tab on each site’s own origin (same-origin `fetch`), and store each source’s results in that origin’s `localStorage` so they survive reloads.

• De-duplication

  • Group articles that report the same event, both across sources and within one source. Examples: the same shooting covered by BBC and The Guardian, or several Reuters pieces on one company’s debt troubles.

  • Keep one exemplar per group: the fullest straight news report, preferring the General source when quality is similar.

  • Keep related but distinct pieces separate (an explainer versus a news report on a different angle).

  • Record, for each exemplar, how many duplicates were folded into it.

• Rating: read the full text of every exemplar. Use integers only. To get through hundreds of articles, split them into batches of about 50 and run parallel sub-agents against one written rubric file. Give each agent its own browser tab and its own scratch subfolder. Tell agents to keep their key lists in local JS variables, not `window` globals. Have each agent write tab-separated output: key, date, source, title, URL, text length, REL, RAT, CAT, reason. Afterwards, validate that every key appears once, has 10 columns, and obeys the score rules.

  • REL (0–5): relevance to the list.

    • 0: no bearing (sports results, celebrity gossip, shopping lists, horoscopes)

    • 1: light touch (an entertainment item, minor corporate news)

    • 2: clear but modest bearing

    • 3: substantial, national-scale bearing

    • 4: major (deadly war events, epidemics, large climate, food or water threats, democratic crises in big countries)

    • 5: a direct, large-scale threat or remedy (famine for millions, full-scale war, a pandemic-scale response)

  • RAT (−5…+5): does the development the article reports make that concern worse (−) or better (+)? Rate the real-world event, not the article’s tone. A report of harm is negative; a response, remedy or discovery is positive. |RAT| ≤ REL, and REL 0 ⇒ RAT 0.

  • CAT: the primary category code, one of Decide, Survive, Thrive, Nurture, or 0. This weeds out the irrelevant articles.

  • Reason: at most 15 words.

• Ranking

  • Distance = √(REL² + RAT²).

  • Top 100 = the relevant articles (REL ≥ 1) with the largest distance. Break ties by higher REL, then by more recent date.

  • If fewer than 100 articles are relevant, list only those.

• The page (output)

  • Make a single self-contained HTML page with inline CSS and JS and no chart libraries. It needs light and dark themes driven by CSS colour tokens, has to work at phone width, and uses a serif display face (Newsreader), a sans body face (IBM Plex Sans) and a mono face for data (IBM Plex Mono).

  • Sections, in order:

    • Header: an eyebrow line (dates · “two leading open-access sources in five fields · rated from full text”), the title “How the week’s news bears on Survive · Thrive · Nurture”, and a lede linking to the blog post.

    • Stat row: exemplar count; relevant count; negative / positive counts; mean rating over relevant articles; “N of 100” top-100 negative.

    • Scatter, relevance (y, 0–5) against rating (x, −5…+5), drawn in inline SVG. Points are jittered deterministically inside each integer cell, and each cell shows its count. Color by tier: Decide indigo, Survive brick red, Thrive green, Nurture teal, Not relevant grey. Top-100 points are outlined. Hovering or tapping a point shows a tooltip with headline, source, concern, scores and reason. Add field filter buttons (All / General / Engineering / Medicine / Science / Business) and tier legend toggles.

    • By source table: field, source, articles, relevant, mean REL, mean rating (relevant articles only), number in the top 100.

    • Top 100 ledger: rank, linked headline (to the original article), source · field, the reason in italics, a “+n” tag for folded duplicates, a “teaser” tag for stubs, a concern chip, REL, signed rating (red or green), distance, and date. Add filters for concern, field and direction.

    • Method and limits (collapsible): sources and actual date coverage; substitutions (such as Fortune for CNBC); collected / empty / duplicates / exemplar counts; the de-duplication rule; the scoring rubric; the number of teaser-only items; a note that scores are approximate.

    • Concerns by source type: a stacked bar chart with one bar each for Decide, Survive, Thrive and Nurture (not-relevant articles left out, with their count given in the caption). Segments are counts of exemplar articles by source field, using their own palette: General slate blue, Business ochre, Engineering purple, Medicine rose, Science teal. Show counts inside segments tall enough to hold them and totals above each bar; segment tooltips give exact counts.

  • Check the page at desktop and phone width in both themes, confirm there are no script errors, then publish it.