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• RSS Feeds Are Still the Best Way to Build a News Tab
  Before ranking news, you have to ingest it — and plain RSS over HTTPS remains the fastest, most honest pipeline from publisher to search results.
• How Scientists Classify Life — From Linnaeus to DNA Trees
  Every organism on Earth has an address in a filing system invented by an 18th-century Swede and now being rebuilt base pair by base pair. Taxonomy is where biology meets genealogy: naming, ranking, arguing — and occasionally discovering that fungi are closer to animals than to plants.
• How Hacker News Ranks Its Front Page — The One-Line Formula That Keeps It Fresh
  A high-scoring story from yesterday is already sinking today. The Hacker News front page runs on one deceptively simple decay formula plus a human voting culture — here is the maths and the sociology, explained.
• How Countries Count Their People — Census, Sampling and the Numbers Behind the Numbers
  Every ranking you have ever argued about online — population, GDP, literacy — ultimately traces back to someone knocking on a door, or deciding not to. The census is one of humanity's oldest technologies of government, and one of the few whose errors are inherited by every statistic built on top.
• The Tukuk Search Engine — BM25, AI Reranking, and Short Answers
  Behind Tukuk's single search box sit three layers: probabilistic scoring, a neural reranker model, and answer generation — all without cookie tracking.
• BM25: The Relevance Formula Behind Almost Every Search Box
  Before embeddings and neural rerankers, there was a formula that still decides most rankings — term frequency, saturation, and a penalty for documents that repeat themselves.