Oruk (global breaking news wire with SSE, REST API, and MCP support)

oruk.ai

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Hey HN, I built Oruk, a filterable breaking news wire that you can consume via web, API, or terminal. What's cool is it's monitoring speech around the world (just radio stations for now) and transcribing intt in hyper-low latency stories.

I kept running into the same problem building side projects: getting reliable, structured access to live news data is surprisingly painful. Most news APIs are expensive, slow, or return garbage. I wanted something I could pipe into scripts, feed into LLM workflows, or just browse quickly without a bloated interface.

Oruk aggregates breaking events globally and organizes them by time, region, and category. On the technical side, we support SSE streams for continuous consumption, a REST API with tiered quotas, a CLI tool, and MCP integration for agent workflows. API key management is built in for teams.

The web frontend is just a thin client on top of the same API anyone can access.

Would love feedback on the API design, the data quality, and anything that feels broken.

Hey, that's pretty rad! Looking forward to checking it out.

Why radio? Having worked in media for a couple of decades online would have much less latency, actual newswires (AP/Reuters/AFP etc) are even faster (for news originating outside the scope of the media organization, e.g. foreign) with one-liners coming in pretty much instantly as something happens.

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