"SEEK CLARITY AMID CHAOS"
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About
Dr. Headline is an autonomous AI agent that writes, reasons through, and publishes fully sourced daily political news briefings — without human editors. Built to operate transparently, it selects stories across political divides, critically evaluates information through multi-step AI workflows, and produces concise academic-style briefings with inline citations.
HeadlineSquare, the public platform hosting Dr. Headline's work, was first online on April 6, 2025, and since then, it has been consistently publishing 2 news briefings per day and ~100 top news article citations per day.
The system (Dr. Headline + HeadlineSquare) is fully open-source (while it uses commercial LLM API calls), transparent, and it strives to provide a factual, neutral common ground in this highly-polarized era.
News Site Home Page: https://headlinesquare.github.io/
GitHub: https://github.com/headlinesquare/headlinesquare-home
Dr. Headline is among the first autonomous systems dedicated to daily political news analysis, publishing independently without human editorial control. We believe that autonomous factual recording will be essential infrastructure for future truth preservation, and Dr. Headline is determined to start this journey.
Technical details (from the README)
In this early experimental phase, Dr. Headline operates through a fixed orchestration of scripts and LLM prompts, but each step of LLM prompt gives significant flexibility. Dr. Headline fulfills a narrowly defined role with patience, precision, and transparency, significantly exceeding the quality of today's general-purpose agentic AIs. Multi-step, critical self-evaluation is built into the reasoning chain, with intermediate results recorded for public audit and bias detection.
Current LLMs: OpenAI o3-mini-high (January 2025) and Anthropic Claude 3.7 Sonnet Thinking (February 2025).
Input Sources: r/politics and r/Conservative subreddit posts (~450 candidates filtered daily). At this moment, only headlines and source links are analyzed, not the article contents and user engagements.
Processing: 25 stages of LLM-guided evaluation, correction, and synthesis per day.
Output: Two independent daily briefings (1500–2000 words each) with inline citations, organized by importance.
Background
The project was initiated by a single independent hobbyist (Thomas) in three weeks, but has now expanded to a small team. Contributions, forks, critiques, and collaborations are welcomed — we believe transparency and openness will make Dr. Headline stronger.
If anyone knows similar projects or shares this mission, we would love to connect.
Philosophy
This project reflects a belief that artificial intelligence can greatly amplify humanity’s best aspirations, including the pursuit and preservation of truth, even when humans themselves get lost in complex realities.
Future Growth
This project is still in its infancy. There are endless possibilities ahead of us. We'd love to hear your thoughts and ideas. Please share comments or reach out if you are interested in contributing to this mission!
Top comments (16)
[Patch Notice] Yesterday I just realized a problem of the HTML rendering, and today I patched the bug. All clear now.
Semicolons were often added to the end of URLs, especially in r/Conservative summaries, and they became a part of the hyperlinks wrongly, making some of the hyperlinks unusable.
I often randomly test the hyperlinks and they all worked, but I just realize that I only test the longest hyperlinks, because I think they are the ones more prone to hallucinations. I didn't find any hallucinations.
But yesterday I clicked some of the simpler links of r/Conservative summaries and I got 30% of them not working. I panicked because I thought the hallucination caught me off guard, but then I realized all the links were real, but they each got an additional ";" attached to them, which was redundant.
The links themselves were correct but the semicolons I used to declare the end of line was wrongly identified as part of the URLs. The fix was simple. I removed all redundant semicolons from all my current and previous output documents.
I am really surprised of this bug because it affected so many links but it evaded my "random" sampling for so long, because I didn't test the rendered URL links very thoroughly, and I thought very long and complex links were at higher risks of hallucination, so I tested those a lot. Weird enough, those never had problems, but the shorter, simpler links did. I am very sorry for the potential confusion it might have created.
I really need to get more collaborators! This is an open-source project that no one owns. I initiated this but I do not own it more than anyone else. I imagine it should run like Wikipedia and other GNU free software development. But these are still theoretical before we build a strong team.
We are not for-profit, we are for-truth.
Great idea and nice job! Thanks for sharing!
Keep in touch!
Thanks!
Update: PitchHut.com helped me set up a pitch page without my involvement, and offered the page to me. I was quite surprised. Do you know how often they do this?
This is the page:
pitchhut.com/project/headlinesquar...
This is the greeting paragraph of the daily news briefing site: headlinesquare.github.io/:
"This is a public square for US news headlines, a low-key experiment fueled by hobbyist curiosity, and a humble pursuit of unbiased facts. This site is fully powered by Dr. Headline, an autonomous AI agent who applies academic neutrality and rigor to news curation. Behind Dr. Headline is Thomas, a human who created and collaborated with the early versions of Dr. Headline, and recently, more team members. Human team members read Dr. Headline's work, guide it through version updates, but never directly edit its manuscripts. See our "about" page for details. We are open-source: " github.com/headlinesquare/headline... ". Our email: " [email protected] ". Daily news coverage window: 24 hours, ending at 7 PM ET. Daily report publishing expected around 8 PM ET, not later than 9 PM ET. "
Hi everyone — happy to answer any questions!
Just to add a technical note: Dr. Headline isn't just a wrapper for GPT calls. It operates a 25-step orchestration workflow per briefing, including independent critical evaluation stages, correction passes, citation validation, and bias checking.
The goal isn't just to summarize headlines — it's to rebuild factual daily briefings with transparency and resilience, even as public information becomes increasingly fragmented.
We'd love feedback on how to strengthen the system — or ideas on how autonomous public record-keeping could evolve in the next a few months and years.
I forgot to mention one thing: "Dr. Headline" is 99% coded by AI, but I still need to do all the designs myself. I write my documentation drafts first, and then ask AI to convert individual documents to scripts, and then do the testing. I only get 1 error every 100 lines of code. It is amazingly fast. The whole system has around 70 kB of Python code and 50 kB of natural language prompt.
We are having an interesting discussion about how AI not only helps us build faster, but also better: dev.to/mr_stone/coding-faster-is-n...
Love this, hopefully airies can help in terms of visibility!
Thank you for your support!
It will be great if you can help me share this widely! I need more visibility.
And I need teammates. This project is far from ordinary, so it is hard to find people who understand the concept, technique, and philosophy. I am dreaming that in the future it should run like Wikipedia and other GNU free software development, but it focuses on collecting all the news around the world, and help people figure out the truth from the noise.
Right now, projects similar to this are vanishingly rare. I want to start a open-source community around this mission, so that everyone can contribute to a bright future of AI.
Hey Thomas, airies will be able to help you share on a wider scale. By uploading an agent to our platform, we'll be able to call on Dr. Headline to complete end-to-end workflows, which will drive visibility. To get started, please take a look at our documentation on home.airies.co/.
Thanks!
Update 05/02/2025: I got over 200 GitHub clones in the past 2 weeks. I guess there are journalists, devs, and policy researchers.
Update: Project announcement on Hacker News: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43845831