Signals that survive scrutiny
A topic has to clear real gates before it reaches your board: enough distinct articles, presence across multiple collection runs, and a measurable rise over its own prior baseline window.
Evidence-first technology signals
Know what tech is actually trending — and why.
TechDrift reads the sources developers already follow and promotes a topic only once it repeats across stories, holds across collection runs, and measurably rises against its own baseline. Every signal arrives with the stories behind it.
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Example signal
local-first
+4.2 ptsLift vs baseline
7Articles
3Runs seen
4Sources
Evidence
Hacker News
Local-first sync engines are finally boring enough to ship
Lobsters
Building an offline-first client without a CRDT library
The Register
Why local-first storage is creeping back into enterprise apps
Coverage
Drawn from the sources developers actually read
Subscribe to the feeds you trust. TechDrift collects from each one on its own schedule and scores them together.
Hacker News
Lobsters
GitHub rising repos
DEV
Ars Technica
The Verge
TechCrunch
Techmeme
The Register
Wired
MIT Technology Review
404 Media
Slashdot
Engadget
+ more being added
What you get
Built to filter hype, not amplify it
Most feeds reward whatever is loudest right now. TechDrift is built around the opposite question: what is still here, across sources, after the noise moves on?
Every signal shows its evidence
Each trend opens into the actual stories that produced it, with source attribution, excerpts, and direct links. Nothing is a black box you have to take on faith.
No single source dominates
Source shares are compared proportionally, so a high-volume aggregator can't manufacture a trend on its own. A newly added source stays visible while its baseline warms up, but can't skew the board.
Your sources, your feed
Choose which feeds count. Your subscriptions shape both your article stream and the signals you see, so the board reflects your corner of the industry instead of a generic front page.
Reading state that sticks
Open, save, mark read, or dismiss an article and it stays that way. Your history and saved items live with your account, not in one browser's local storage.
See what didn't make the cut
Explore the candidate topics that fell short and the exact gate each one missed — too few articles, not enough runs, or not enough lift. The scoring is inspectable, not implied.
How it works
Three steps, then it runs itself
Pick your sources
Create an account, verify your email, and choose the feeds you want tracked. You can change the mix whenever you like.
TechDrift collects and scores
New stories are pulled in on a schedule and compared against the preceding window — repetition, persistence across runs, and per-source lift all get measured.
Read the signals, check the work
Open your board for what's rising, drill into the stories behind each signal, and keep the ones worth following.
Why it's different
Evidence-first, by construction
TechDrift is designed so that you never have to trust a ranking you can't verify. Every number on the board traces back to something you can open and read.
- Published gates are visible. The thresholds a topic must clear are shown alongside the result, not hidden in a scoring model.
- Advisory notes stay labelled. Where TechDrift adds interpretation, it comes with its stated confidence and its uncertainty spelled out — as an opinion to weigh, never as a fact.
- Excerpts come from the source text. What you read in a card is taken directly from the stored article, not paraphrased or rewritten, and every card links out to the original.
- Your account stays under your control. Change your sources, update your email, reset your password, or delete your account and everything tied to it — all from inside the app.
Start tracking signals instead of headlines
Create a free account, choose your sources, and see what the last few days of technology news actually add up to.