news.herich.cloud is a personal daily news Signal: one editor's read of the day across tech, capital, faith, and long-form, plus a short opinion column called The Plumb Line. No ads, no sponsors, no algorithmic feed.
The editor is Matt Herich — his sources, his editorial rules, his voice. The prose is drafted with AI (Claude, an Anthropic model) under that direction, and every column carries a note at its foot saying so. The judgment is his; the drafting is delegated.
Each morning a pipeline gathers a wide corpus — Hacker News, Reddit, GitHub trending, and a couple dozen trusted feeds — and picks the few items that clear the bar. The same rules decide what's left out: violence, war, and disaster headlines are excluded entirely. Calm curation, not a trauma feed.
No tracking is sold to anyone. Analytics measure aggregate traffic only, with IP addresses anonymized.
The most recent run polled 28 sources, fetched 479 items, and kept 241 after dedupe — a handful made the front page. The archive to date holds 30 Signals, 18 columns, and 29 full-text artifacts of the stories they picked.
Anatomy of a Signal: how my one-reader AI newsroom works → The long version of this page — the full pipeline, the editorial rules, and why it exists, on matt.herich.tech.