Como funciona o HapnGo

HapnGo is a small publication about artificial intelligence and the business of creating online. This page says how each part of it is made, what is written by people, what is written by AI, and what is checked before it goes out. It is kept true to the code that runs the site; the numbers on it are read from the site's own data when the page is shown.

The news river

Every hour a job reads the public RSS feeds of 40 English-language sources: AI labs, the technology press, research and the creator economy. The list also holds 79 feeds in six other languages, and 6 of those languages are switched on today. Each item is filed under one of 7 topics by a keyword classifier, and stories that several outlets cover are grouped. The classifier is right most of the time and sometimes wrong; every item links to its source, so a wrong topic costs a reader nothing.

A headline is shown as the publisher wrote it, with a short teaser, the source name and a link. Headlines are never rewritten and articles are never copied. The river pages are marked noindex: they are for readers, not for search engines, and the only pages HapnGo asks search engines to index are the ones with its own words.

The Daily Briefing

One page a morning: the day's strongest stories, a "why it matters" line for each, and what to watch. It is written by AI from the day's headlines and published automatically, with no human check before it goes out. It is labelled "AI-generated" at the top of the page and of the email. On a day the AI step fails, the briefing is a plain list of the day's headlines and carries no AI label. Anything reported wrong to contact@hapngo.org is corrected or withdrawn; see the corrections page.

Our own headlines and summaries

Where a publisher allows machine reading of its articles, the site can show a headline and a short summary written by AI in HapnGo's own words, from the publisher's article, so that a story from an English-language source can be read in another language. Each one is labelled "AI-written". Nobody checks them before they appear, the full story is always at the source, and the publisher's own headline is never machine-translated. Stories from publishers whose terms do not allow machine reading are shown on the English pages only.

Translations

The interface exists in 7 languages: the strings are translations of HapnGo's own words, reviewed by people. The Daily Briefing, the What Goes pieces, the Journey guides and the tool reviews are translated by AI into Română, Italiano, Deutsch, Français, Español, Português; every translated page is labelled "AI-translated", says whether it has been checked, and links to the English original, which is the authoritative text. A translated copy goes to search engines only once it has passed an automatic second check against the English or a person has ticked it. The brand words are never translated.

What Goes

HapnGo's own conclusions: one short piece per story. A draft is written by AI and sits unpublished, invisible to readers, until a person has read it and pressed Publish; a piece a person has rewritten is marked as edited. Few pieces, each citing one linked source, approved one by one: that is what keeps this a publication and not a feed.

The AI tools directory

88 tools, each with its pricing, what works, what to know and the alternatives. Listings are editorial and are not sold; a paid placement, if one ever appears, is labelled "Sponsored" on the item itself. Prices and facts are read on the vendor's own pages, and each review shows the date its details were last checked. For 22 tools the page also shows an "In Europe" box: the price in euro, the interface languages, the data controller under the GDPR and whether the product is offered in the EU, each with the vendor page it was read on and the date. Every outbound link goes through a counted redirect; an affiliate link is marked "Sponsored link" and explained on the affiliate disclosure page. Commissions do not change what a review says.

The Journey

10 guides, from finding the thing worth making to knowing when to quit or double down, written by people and using AI tools the whole way.

Pictures

A news card shows the publisher's own share image, loaded from the publisher's server, or a picture generated by AI from the headline and labelled "AI illustration": an illustration of the subject, never a photograph of the event, with no real person's likeness, no logos and no text. An automatic check rejects a picture that shows words, a logo or a realistic face. For a story with neither, the site draws a signal pattern of its own.

Why it is disclosed this way

Article 50 of the EU AI Act asks that AI-generated content be marked as such; HapnGo labels each AI-written item where it appears, not only here. Google's spam policies name automatically published content at scale as abuse; HapnGo publishes little, labels what AI wrote, and lets a person decide what goes out under the site's own name. The plainer reason is that a reader is entitled to know how a thing was made before deciding how much weight to give it.

Mistakes

Some of what is here will be wrong: feeds carry errors, tools change their plans overnight, and prices belong to the vendors. Write to contact@hapngo.org or use the contact page. The corrections page says how a report is handled and logs every correction made. The editorial policy states the rules this page describes.