About PluseNews

Free news from
trusted sources

No paywall. No subscriptions. PluseNews uses CORS-native APIs — no proxy servers — to pull live news directly from The Guardian, Hacker News, and Reddit.

News sources

The Guardian

content.guardianapis.com

Primary source UK Centre
WorldTechScience BusinessPoliticsHealth Australia

Official Content API. CORS-native, free developer key. 500,000+ articles across all topics.

Hacker News

hn.algolia.com/api/v1

Tech only US Community
Tech & AI

Via Algolia's HN Search API. Completely free, no key needed, CORS-enabled. Front-page stories only.

Reddit

reddit.com/{sub}/hot.json

Supplemental 🌐 Global
All categories

Public JSON API. No key needed, CORS-enabled. Used as secondary source per category — r/worldnews, r/technology, r/science, r/australia and more.

Reddit sources by category

How it works

CORS-native APIs — zero proxy servers

Previous versions used CORS proxy services (rss2json, allorigins) that are frequently blocked by firewalls and rate-limited. PluseNews now fetches directly from The Guardian Content API, HN Algolia, and Reddit's public JSON API — all of which support CORS natively in the browser. No proxy = no blocks.

Parallel fetching with partial-result safety

All sources for a category are fetched simultaneously. If some sources respond slowly, the page shows whatever loaded successfully with a soft warning — it never shows a blank error page just because one source was slow.

Deduplication & smart sorting

Articles from multiple sources are deduplicated by comparing title fingerprints. Stories are sorted newest first. Results are cached in sessionStorage for 15 minutes so you're not hammering the APIs with every tab switch.

Bookmarks, search, and auto-refresh

Bookmarks are stored in your browser's localStorage and persist between sessions. Full-text search across headlines and descriptions works client-side with no extra requests. The active category refreshes every 15 minutes automatically.

"Quality journalism should be accessible to everyone, not gated behind subscriptions."

PluseNews links directly to original articles. We host no content and reproduce no copyrighted material — all stories link out to their original publishers.