fix(modelwatch,fetch): param-count fallback + browser-shaped feed headers

Two fixes surfaced by the live feed.

modelwatch: some repos report a bogus tiny `safetensors.total` (e.g.
deepreinforce-ai/Ornith-1.0-35B came through as "1M params"), which both
misrendered and — worse — let an oversized model slip past the size cap. Add
`params_from_name` (parse the first <num>B|M token from the repo id, which by
convention is the total size) and `effective_params` (trust safetensors.total
only when it's >= 100M, else fall back to the name). Use it for the size filter
and the summary. New unit tests cover the name parser, the fallback, and that a
70B reporting a 1M total is still rejected as too large. (Forward-looking: the
idempotent ingest won't re-render items already in the feed.)

fetch: feed requests now send browser-shaped `Accept` / `Accept-Language`
headers. reqwest sends no Accept by default, which some anti-bot filters 403.
NB this is hygiene, not a Reddit fix — Reddit fingerprints the TLS/HTTP client
(rustls) and hard-403s it where curl only gets rate-limited (429); headers don't
change the fingerprint. The control path (github releases.atom, etc.) is
unaffected.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016fKZzDpvjiJ9eYbPGgJvUP

Cargo.lock

@@ -1380,6 +1380,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "clap",
  "figment",
  "newsfeed-entities",
+ "regex",
  "reqwest",
  "serde",
  "serde_json",

crates/newsfeed-fetch/src/lib.rs

@@ -31,6 +31,18 @@ const DEFAULT_UA: &str = concat!(
     " (feed discovery)"
 );
 
+/// Browser-like `Accept` advertising a feed preference. Sending no `Accept` (reqwest's
+/// default) trips some anti-bot filters — notably Reddit, which hard-403s a header-less
+/// client while only rate-limiting a browser-shaped one.
+const FEED_ACCEPT: &str =
+    "application/rss+xml, application/atom+xml, application/xml;q=0.9, text/html;q=0.8, */*;q=0.7";
+
+/// Attach the browser-shaped headers every feed request should carry.
+fn feed_headers(rb: reqwest::RequestBuilder) -> reqwest::RequestBuilder {
+    rb.header(reqwest::header::ACCEPT, FEED_ACCEPT)
+        .header(reqwest::header::ACCEPT_LANGUAGE, "en-US,en;q=0.9")
+}
+
 // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 // Worker path: fetch a known feed URL and parse it into backend-agnostic entries.
 // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -43,8 +55,7 @@ pub async fn fetch_entries(client: &Client, url: &str) -> anyhow::Result<Vec<Fee
 }
 
 async fn get_bytes(client: &Client, url: &str) -> anyhow::Result<Vec<u8>> {
-    let bytes = client
+    let bytes = feed_headers(client.get(url))
-        .get(url)
         .send()
         .await
         .with_context(|| format!("fetching {url}"))?
@@ -170,9 +181,7 @@ impl HttpFeedProber {
 
     /// Fetch a URL, returning the final URL (after redirects) and the body bytes.
     async fn fetch(&self, url: &str) -> anyhow::Result<(Url, Vec<u8>)> {
-        let resp = self
+        let resp = feed_headers(self.client.get(url))
-            .client
-            .get(url)
             .send()
             .await
             .with_context(|| format!("fetching {url}"))?

crates/newsfeed-modelwatch/Cargo.toml

@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ reqwest.workspace = true
 serde.workspace = true
 serde_json.workspace = true
 chrono.workspace = true
+regex.workspace = true
 
 anyhow.workspace = true
 tracing.workspace = true

crates/newsfeed-modelwatch/src/lib.rs

@@ -9,12 +9,18 @@
 //! weights bite. See the newsfeed CLAUDE.md house rule.
 
 use std::collections::HashMap;
+use std::sync::OnceLock;
 
 use chrono::{DateTime, Utc};
+use regex::Regex;
 use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};
 
 use newsfeed_entities::item::CandidateSubmission;
 
+/// Below this, a `safetensors.total` is treated as bogus (some repos report a tiny/partial
+/// total) and we fall back to the parameter count in the repo name.
+const IMPLAUSIBLE_PARAMS_FLOOR: u64 = 100_000_000;
+
 /// A model record from the HF Hub API. The list and detail endpoints share this shape;
 /// detail-only fields (`safetensors`, `card_data`) are optional so one struct serves both.
 /// Unknown fields are ignored, so the API can grow without breaking us.
@@ -95,6 +101,34 @@ pub fn license(m: &HfModel) -> Option<String> {
         .find_map(|t| t.strip_prefix("license:").map(|s| s.to_lowercase()))
 }
 
+/// Parse a parameter count from a repo name, e.g. `Qwen3-235B-A22B` → 235e9,
+/// `granite-3b-a600m` → 3e9, `SmolLM-360M` → 360e6. Takes the first `<num>B|M` token, which
+/// by convention is the model's total size (the second, for MoE, is the active count).
+pub fn params_from_name(id: &str) -> Option<u64> {
+    static RE: OnceLock<Regex> = OnceLock::new();
+    let re = RE.get_or_init(|| Regex::new(r"(?i)(\d+(?:\.\d+)?)\s*([bm])\b").unwrap());
+    let name = id.rsplit('/').next().unwrap_or(id);
+    let caps = re.captures(name)?;
+    let n: f64 = caps.get(1)?.as_str().parse().ok()?;
+    let mult = if caps.get(2)?.as_str().eq_ignore_ascii_case("b") {
+        1e9
+    } else {
+        1e6
+    };
+    Some((n * mult) as u64)
+}
+
+/// Best available parameter count: trust `safetensors.total` when it's plausible, else fall
+/// back to the size in the repo name (some repos report a bogus tiny total, which would
+/// both misrender and let an oversized model slip past the size filter).
+pub fn effective_params(m: &HfModel) -> Option<u64> {
+    let total = m.safetensors.as_ref().map(|s| s.total).filter(|&t| t > 0);
+    match total {
+        Some(t) if t >= IMPLAUSIBLE_PARAMS_FLOOR => Some(t),
+        _ => params_from_name(&m.id).or(total),
+    }
+}
+
 /// The admission predicate: which releases are worth submitting. Configurable; an empty
 /// allowlist means "don't filter on this axis".
 #[derive(Debug, Clone, Serialize, Deserialize)]
@@ -158,12 +192,15 @@ impl Predicate {
         {
             return Err("pipeline_tag not allowed");
         }
-        match &m.safetensors {
+        if self.require_safetensors && m.safetensors.is_none() {
-            None if self.require_safetensors => return Err("no safetensors"),
+            return Err("no safetensors");
-            Some(st) if self.max_params > 0 && st.total > self.max_params => {
+        }
-                return Err("too large");
+        if self.max_params > 0 {
+            if let Some(p) = effective_params(m) {
+                if p > self.max_params {
+                    return Err("too large");
+                }
             }
-            _ => {}
         }
         if !self.licenses.is_empty()
             && !license(m).is_some_and(|l| self.licenses.iter().any(|a| a == &l))
@@ -186,7 +223,7 @@ pub fn to_submission(m: &HfModel, source: &str) -> CandidateSubmission {
         .or_else(|| m.id.split('/').next().map(str::to_string));
 
     let mut parts = Vec::new();
-    if let Some(total) = m.safetensors.as_ref().map(|s| s.total).filter(|&t| t > 0) {
+    if let Some(total) = effective_params(m) {
         parts.push(human_params(total));
     }
     if let Some(l) = license(m) {
@@ -348,4 +385,49 @@ mod tests {
         assert_eq!(human_params(14_000_000_000), "14.0B params");
         assert_eq!(human_params(770_000_000), "770M params");
     }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn params_from_name_takes_first_size_token() {
+        assert_eq!(
+            params_from_name("Qwen/Qwen3-235B-A22B"),
+            Some(235_000_000_000)
+        );
+        assert_eq!(
+            params_from_name("ibm-granite/granite-3b-a600m"),
+            Some(3_000_000_000)
+        );
+        assert_eq!(params_from_name("x/Ornith-1.0-35B"), Some(35_000_000_000));
+        assert_eq!(params_from_name("HF/SmolLM-360M"), Some(360_000_000));
+        assert_eq!(
+            params_from_name("nvidia/Qwen3.6-27B-NVFP4"),
+            Some(27_000_000_000)
+        );
+        assert_eq!(params_from_name("openai/gpt-oss"), None); // no size token
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn effective_params_falls_back_when_total_is_bogus() {
+        // Bogus tiny total (the real Ornith case) → use the name's size.
+        let m =
+            model(r#"{"id":"deepreinforce-ai/Ornith-1.0-35B","safetensors":{"total":1000000}}"#);
+        assert_eq!(effective_params(&m), Some(35_000_000_000));
+        // Plausible total → trust it.
+        let m = model(r#"{"id":"a/b-7B","safetensors":{"total":7000000000}}"#);
+        assert_eq!(effective_params(&m), Some(7_000_000_000));
+        // No safetensors block → still recover a size from the name.
+        assert_eq!(
+            effective_params(&model(r#"{"id":"a/Foo-9B"}"#)),
+            Some(9_000_000_000)
+        );
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn bogus_total_does_not_let_an_oversized_model_through() {
+        // 70B model reporting a 1M total must still be rejected by the size cap.
+        let m = model(
+            r#"{"id":"x/Whale-70B","pipeline_tag":"text-generation",
+                "cardData":{"license":"mit"},"safetensors":{"total":1000000}}"#,
+        );
+        assert_eq!(Predicate::default().admit(&m), Err("too large"));
+    }
 }