About
What is Breaking Snooze?
Breaking Snooze is an AI-curated satirical news aggregator. Every few hours, the algorithm reads the same wire feeds the rest of the internet reads — politics, tech, world, business, entertainment, sports — and rewrites each headline with editorial sarcasm. Every story links back to the real outlet that ran it.
It is, in effect, an editorial layer over the news cycle. The Onion writes fake news for laughs. We rewrite real news with the eyebrow you'd raise reading it.
How it works
- Fetch. An RSS pipeline pulls in stories from around 30 sources every refresh.
- Filter. Spam, affiliate links, and near-duplicates get cut.
- Curate. The 30 strongest stories — five per category — make the front page.
- Rewrite. A locally-hosted LLM (currently Llama 3.2 via Ollama) rewrites each headline with dark, cynical humor. Headlines stay grounded in the actual story; we don't invent facts.
- Publish. The result is written as a timestamped JSON file, served by a static site, and archived as a permanent edition page.
What it isn't
Breaking Snooze is not a news outlet. We don't report. We don't fact-check. We don't host the stories themselves — every link goes to the real publication that ran the original. Read those for the truth; read us for the eye-roll.
It's also not partisan. The algorithm has no political agenda — it's equal-opportunity snark. If something deserves a sigh, it gets one, regardless of who said it.
Why does this exist?
Because the news cycle never sleeps. Because most headlines deserve a sarcastic restating. Because LLMs are weirdly good at being briefly funny. And because the line between "satirical news" and "regular news, accurately summarized" is thinner than most people think.
Read more
- Today's edition — the latest 30 sarcastic headlines.
- Archive — every edition we've ever published.
- RSS — subscribe in your feed reader.