About trending.md

trending.md is a dense trending-information feed optimized for agentic web search and human readability. The canonical content lives in Markdown (.md) files — the web view is a styled render of those files.

Why Markdown-first?

1. AI agents can read it directly. curl https://trending.md/en/feed/latest.md returns clean, structured markdown — no HTML parsing needed.
2. Human-readable raw. The .md files are the source of truth; they read well in any text editor, terminal, or GitHub viewer.
3. The domain is the format. trending.md — the TLD is the promise. Content in markdown, rendered for the web.
4. Version-control friendly. .md files diff cleanly in git. Every daily snapshot is a commit.

How to consume

Consumer	Method
AI agent (raw md)	curl https://trending.md/en/feed/latest.md
Human (web)	Visit https://trending.md/en/ — styled render of the latest feed
Archive	https://trending.md/en/archive/ — daily snapshots

Ranking

Items are ranked by velocity — a composite of:
- Recency — how recently the signal emerged
- Engagement acceleration — how fast attention is growing (not absolute volume)
- Source authority — weighted by historical reliability

The goal is to surface what's moving now, not what has the most total attention.

Structure

trending-md/
├── en/                     ← English locale
│   ├── feed/
│   │   ├── latest.md       ← Current feed (canonical)
│   │   └── 2026-08-11.md   ← Daily snapshot
│   ├── archive/            ← Historical daily snapshots
│   └── about.md            ← This file
├── zh/                     ← 简体中文 (Chinese locale)
│   ├── feed/
│   ├── archive/
│   └── about.md
├── jp/                     ← 日本語 (Japanese locale)
│   ├── feed/
│   ├── archive/
│   └── about.md
└── feed/latest.md          ← Root backward-compat (→ en/feed/latest.md)

License

All content is CC-BY 4.0. Attribution to trending.md appreciated but not required for machine consumption.

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