About Ttek2
Ttek2 is a topic hub and search engine for technology news. The product is the topic page — a single place where what's happening with a thing (a chip, a game, a release, an outage) is summarized, scored for momentum, and linked back to the publishers who broke it. Search is the second half: find what's been written across the open tech web on whatever you're curious about, with snippets, prices, and forum context surfaced inline.
We don't host original editorial. The opinions and reporting on this site live on the sites of the publishers we link to.
What's here
- /topics — every topic we're tracking, ranked by current momentum. Click through to a hub page for the AI-summarized brief, sentiment score, latest signals, and discussion themes. ~200+ topics, refreshed every 30 minutes.
- /search — search across articles, vendor stores, forum discussions, and topic hubs. Semantic-rerank reorders FTS5 hits so spelling variants, alias matches ("BG3" → Baldur's Gate 3), and topic-adjacent terms surface alongside literal matches.
- Price tracking — the search SERP and topic pages show current prices for tracked Steam/GOG SKUs. "30d Low" badges appear when a product is at its recent floor. History is retained indefinitely so longer-term trends become visible as data accumulates.
How signals flow
A crawler walks ~30 allowlisted tech publishers plus public RSS feeds and forum APIs (HN, public Reddit listings) several times per day. Articles are classified for tech relevance, deduplicated, and stored in a local SQLite/FTS5 index. A separate trending pipeline scores topics by mention frequency, source diversity, and momentum, then the AI Pulse layer (OpenAI gpt-5.4-mini) generates per-topic briefs, sentiment, and discussion themes. Everything renders from cached digests; nothing AI runs at request time.
We respect robots.txt, honor takedown requests, and don't bypass paywalls or scrape behind auth. The user-agent we crawl as is identifiable and reachable.
What this site does NOT do
- No analytics. No Google Analytics, Plausible, server-side anything. See Privacy Policy.
- No tracking pixels or third-party JavaScript. Open the dev tools — there are no
<script>tags from other domains. - No advertising network. No AdSense, no Taboola, no programmatic ads.
- No shopping browser behavior. Prices surface contextually; we don't optimize for purchase intent or run affiliate retargeting.
- No newsletter (yet — if we add one, it will be opt-in).
- No paywall.
What's open about this
The codebase is a custom PHP application. Architecturally interesting bits — the topic taxonomy, the trending merge logic, the rerank pipeline, the stream-write digests — are documented in commit messages and inline comments.
If you're a publisher and want your content removed from the index, email us. If you're a researcher who wants to study how topic clustering shifts over time, email us — we may be able to share aggregate snapshots.
Funding
This site is funded out of pocket. There's a donation link in the footer for anyone who wants to help cover hosting + LLM API costs (currently dominated by daily AI Pulse runs across ~200 topics). It's not required and never gates anything.
Contact
- General: contact@ttek2.com
- Takedown / publisher requests: same address — please include the URL(s)
- Security: same address, please use "security" in the subject; see the Terms of Use for our disclosure policy
Changelog
Notable changes are kept short and posted under /topics when they materially affect what visitors see. Roadmap items in flight: hardware price tracking (NVIDIA / AMD / partner cards via JSON-LD on already-crawled vendor pages), and richer historical price visualization (sparklines, lowest-ever badges).
Built and maintained by Mark Janssen.