Digg
Digg is a free technology news site that ranks roughly 2,000 influential tech and AI voices on X, then clusters the stories they are sharing into a fast daily read. No account is required.
What is Digg?
Digg is a technology news site operated by Digg Inc. and built by Basic Intelligence. Its premise is deliberately the reverse of a classic aggregator: instead of starting from the content and working out afterwards what mattered, it starts from the people. Digg follows a ranked network of technology voices on X and asks what they are paying attention to right now, on the reasoning that who is reacting to something tells you more than how many views it collected.
The backbone is a list the site calls The Tech 2K: roughly 2,000 accounts, individuals, companies and politicians in one combined ranking, scored by distinct follows across a follow graph of more than nine million connections. Follower counts are not used. An account qualifies once its tech involvement or AI involvement score clears an eligibility threshold, and the ranking is recomputed on scheduled rebases whose timestamp is printed in the page header.
On top of that network sits the feed: the URLs and topics gaining velocity across the Tech 2K, grouped into story clusters and weighted for voice diversity so a single account repeating itself cannot dominate. Each cluster has its own page carrying a short summary, the original post, the accounts relaying it, combined views and aggregate likes, comments, saves and reposts. Sidebar views separate Trending, Rising likes, Latest From and the last seven days. A GitHub section tracks the repositories the same builders are starring, with sorts for AI score, breakout potential and novelty; the counter read 2,033 tracked projects in September 2026. Individual profile pages add computed vibe and topic distributions drawn from an account's 200 most recent posts.
Artificial intelligence does the classification, summarisation, media description, topic labelling, scoring and search, through providers that include xAI, OpenAI, Anthropic and Google Gemini. Digg is explicit that these outputs are editorial: opinion and inference, possibly inaccurate or out of date, never authoritative.
The feed is free and needs no account. Every ranking is also published as read-only JSON and YAML, callable without a key, alongside a daily and a Saturday newsletter.
What it does
- Rank around 2,000 tech and AI accounts on X by distinct follows across a graph of more than nine million connections
- Cluster the URLs and topics gaining velocity across that network, weighted for voice diversity
- Summarise each story and show the original post, who is relaying it and when it was first seen
- Surface the GitHub repositories the ranked builders are starring and shipping
- Profile each ranked account with computed vibe and topic distributions
- Serve every ranking and feed as public JSON or YAML with no API key
- Send a daily newsletter plus a Saturday edition
When to use Digg / When not to
A quick filter to help you decide if Digg is the right fit.
When to use Digg
- Journalists and editors covering technology who need a daily shortlist of stories already gaining traction
- Founders, operators and investors tracking which AI and tech narratives are accelerating
- AI and machine learning researchers who want to see which papers, tools and debates their peers are amplifying
- Product managers and product marketers running competitive and narrative intelligence
- Developers who follow what the most-followed builders are starring and shipping on GitHub
When not to use Digg
- Anyone looking for general web search or for news outside technology and AI
- Readers who want full article text: Digg links and summarises, it does not republish
- Researchers needing historical archives beyond the rolling 24-hour and 7-day windows
- Teams after follower counts, engagement exports or a general-purpose X API
- Organisations that require a signed DPA, an EU representative or documented GDPR commitments before adopting a service
How to use Digg
A typical end-to-end flow, from setup to results.
- Open the technology feed at digg.com/tech; no sign-up, payment or configuration is required
- Read the ranked list of the day's top technology and AI stories, ordered by position
- Switch between Top and Today, or step back to the last seven days, using the controls above the feed
- Check Trending, Rising likes and Latest From in the sidebar for stories climbing outside the top twenty
- Open a story to see the original post, every account relaying it, the combined views and the engagement totals
- Go to the rankings page for the full Tech 2K list and filter it by role tag such as founder, researcher, academic or company
- Open an individual profile to read its rank, its vibe and topic distributions and its X and GitHub links
- Visit the GitHub stars view for the repositories ranked builders are backing, sorted by stars, AI score, breakout potential or novelty
- Subscribe to the daily and Saturday newsletter from the prompt on the feed; the double opt-in is anonymous and needs no account
- For programmatic use, call the JSON feeds listed in the site's llms.txt, honour the ten-minute cache and treat each cluster's position field as authoritative
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Completely free, with no account, no paywall and no trial period to manage
- The ranking method is published and quantified rather than merely hinted at
- Voice-diversity weighting limits the influence of a single loud account
- Public JSON and YAML feeds need no API key and are documented for programmatic use
- Every cluster shows its source and the accounts relaying it, so a claim can be checked
- Refresh and rebase timestamps are displayed, and the site asks that citations carry them
- The site states plainly what it is not good for, which is rare and saves wasted trials
Cons
- A single social source, X, plus GitHub: nothing from Reddit, LinkedIn, forums or the open web
- Coverage is confined to English-speaking tech and AI circles, with the bias that implies
- The AI-generated rankings and summaries are declared possibly inaccurate, incomplete or out of date
- No archive beyond the rolling 24-hour and 7-day windows
- No GDPR mention, no Data Processing Agreement, no EU representative and no published postal address
- No support email: press, partnerships and feedback all go through the publisher's X account
- Reuse is tightly bounded, with no bulk export, no republication and no model training without written permission
Pricing & Plans
Digg is free of charge. The terms of service state that paid subscriptions are not currently offered, the about page confirms that the feed is free and needs no account, and the site publishes neither a pricing page nor a price of any kind. There is therefore no entry-level paid tier and no currency to quote.
Data, GDPR & hosting
A consolidated view of how Digg handles your data.
GDPR overview
There is no GDPR implementation to report. Across the eleven pages collected, including the privacy policy effective 20 July 2026 and the terms effective 30 June 2026, the site never mentions the GDPR, names no Data Protection Officer, designates no Article 27 representative for the European Union and offers no Data Processing Agreement. The only privacy framework it invokes is Californian: residents may know, access, correct and delete personal information and are protected from discrimination for exercising those rights. Digg does state that it is operated from the United States and that information from visitors elsewhere may be processed there. Rights of access, correction, deletion and profile removal are offered to anyone through privacy@di.gg, but as a good-faith commitment rather than a stated legal obligation.
Who owns the data?
Digg Inc. owns what it produces: the summaries, embeddings, layout, code and brand, with the Digg names and logos held as trademarks. Third-party material it links to or summarises stays with its original rights holders, and Digg claims no ownership over that source content. Readers get only a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable and revocable licence for personal, non-commercial use. Digg shares information with named service providers, with the public sources it queries, with the public through its own pages and feeds, with authorities where the law requires it, and with a successor should the company be merged, financed or sold. User-submitted content is not accepted today, so no reader content is licensed to Digg.
Reuse rights
Reading and citing Digg is allowed; industrialising it is not. Every ranking and story feed is public, read-only and callable without authentication or an API key, cached for ten minutes, and the site asks that any citation carry the canonical URL, the rebase timestamp shown in the page header and the ranking method. The terms then close several doors: no automated access outside the published interfaces and rate limits, no scraping or crawling beyond what Digg permits, no bulk export, mirroring or republication of substantial portions of its rankings, summaries or embeddings, and no use of Digg or of any data obtained from it to train, fine-tune or evaluate machine learning models without prior written permission. Access itself is licensed for personal, non-commercial use only.
Data retention & training
Hosting summary
Digg states that it is operated from the United States, and that information from visitors outside the country may be processed in the United States and in other countries where Digg or its providers operate. No European hosting region and no data-residency option is offered. The privacy policy names its providers rather than leaving them implicit: Supabase, Vercel and Vercel Blob, Clerk, Trigger.dev, Google and Google Analytics, PostHog, Sentry, OpenAI, xAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, Upstash, Iframely, and ad-serving providers such as AdButler. A DNS lookup on 5 September 2026 resolved the domain to 216.150.1.1, an anycast address located in the United States and announced by AS16509, Amazon.com Inc. Security measures are described in general terms: access controls, server-side secrets, row-level security where applicable, service-role restrictions, telemetry scrubbing and limited administrative access, with the acknowledgement that no system is perfectly secure. No Data Processing Agreement is published and no certification such as SOC 2 or ISO 27001 is claimed.
Things to keep in mind
Risks and trade-offs to weigh before adopting Digg.
- Echo chamber: what a 2,000-account tech network watches is not what matters everywhere else
- The AI summaries are declared fallible, yet they invite reading the cluster instead of the source
- Profiles of named individuals are built from public posts without their consent, and removal stays discretionary
- Vibe and topic scores apply automated judgement to real people and can follow them around
- Velocity bias: a story rising fast is not the same as a story that is true
- A feed refreshed hourly or faster rewards compulsive checking
- Advertising and sponsored placements are permitted inside an editorial surface, while usage data reaches Google Analytics, PostHog, Sentry and Vercel and search queries reach OpenAI
Setup & Integrations
Technical difficulty
None worth the name. Digg runs entirely in the browser: opening the feed is the whole setup, with no account, installation, extension or configuration involved. Subscribing to the newsletter costs an email address and one confirmation click. Programmatic use is barely harder, a plain GET on a documented JSON endpoint with no key, no token and no authentication, the only discipline being to honour the ten-minute cache and the published rate limits.
Deployment
Integrations
Behind Digg
Resources
All the official URLs gathered for verification and reference.
Frequently asked questions
Is Digg free?
Where does Digg get its data?
How is the ranking calculated?
Does Digg offer an API?
Can I reuse Digg's data?
What is the minimum age?
Can I have my profile removed?
Is there a mobile app?
Does Digg address the GDPR?
Is there a newsletter?
Should you pick Digg?
Digg is a narrow product that knows exactly how narrow it is, and that is most of its appeal. It watches one network, roughly 2,000 tech and AI accounts on X plus what they star on GitHub, and turns their attention into a ranked daily read. The method is published rather than implied: distinct follows across a graph of more than nine million connections, voice-diversity weighting so one loud account cannot carry a story, refresh and rebase timestamps printed on the page. For anyone whose work depends on knowing what the tech conversation is chewing on this morning, that is a real time saving, and it costs nothing.
The limits are drawn just as clearly. One social source means one worldview, and Digg says so itself: no general web search, no news outside technology and AI, no full article text, no archive beyond the rolling windows. Its rankings and summaries are declared editorial, opinion and inference that may be inaccurate or out of date, so the source link, always present, is the part to click.
Two things deserve a harder look before institutional use. Data governance is light for a European reader: no GDPR mention anywhere, no Data Processing Agreement, no Article 27 representative and no published postal address, with a Californian privacy note standing in for all of it. And the product builds profiles of named individuals, complete with automated vibe and topic scores, from posts those people never offered for that purpose; removal is possible but discretionary.
Read as a fast, free signal board for tech and AI, Digg delivers. Treated as an authority, or as a vendor for regulated data processing, it is not built for the job.
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