ML Papers Weekly (free signals)

Twitter removed their free API, which sucks, so I will use Reddit, HackerNews and Bluesky.

Ranks last-7-day arXiv ML papers by free social/citation signals:

• Reddit (OAuth client credentials)
• Hacker News (Algolia)
• Bluesky (public AppView)

Setup

1. Create a Reddit app at https://www.reddit.com/prefs/apps

   • Type: "script" or "installed app"
   • Note the client id and secret

2. In your GitHub repo → Settings → Secrets and variables → Actions:

   • Add REDDIT_CLIENT_ID
   • Add REDDIT_SECRET

3. Enable GitHub Pages (or Vercel/Netlify) to serve public/.

4. Run locally:

python -m venv .venv && source .venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
export REDDIT_CLIENT_ID=xxx
export REDDIT_SECRET=yyy
python scripts/build_weekly.py