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FirstByte · Sample Digest08:00
FirstByte
Tue, Oct 6, 2026
Hacker News
BetaKit
- CyberWorks lands $1-million Canadian Armed Forces contract
Artificial Intelligence
Ars Technica
Sourced from the sites you already read.
Deploy your own FirstByte instance to fetch from your favorite sites and RSS feeds.
- Hacker News
- GitHub
- Lobsters
- OpenAI
- Engadget
- Wired
- The Verge
- Ars Technica
- TNW
- Electrek
- TechCrunch
- Hackaday
- The Register
- 404 Media
- IEEE Spectrum
- Daring Fireball
- MIT Tech Review
- BetaKit
Customize it yourself.
FirstByte is open source. It's a single Go binary with one YAML file.
Run it yourself with your own feeds, keyword filters and schedule.
GitHubDocker Hub
terminal
# build and configure
$ go build -o firstbyte .
$ ./firstbyte --init
# preview and schedule
$ ./firstbyte --dry-run
$ crontab -e # 0 8 * * * ./firstbyte