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A HN feed with the article's content

31 points by aupajo 16y ago

I've been using this for months now, and I was wondering how many of you know about it. It's the only way to read HN through your RSS reader. Many thanks to Nirmal Patel.

rokhayakebe 16y ago
It would be nice if this showed only the first paragraph + a link for more.
- rcfox 16y ago
  Maybe as a separate feed... In my opinion, having this as the only option defeats the purpose of RSS.
iamdave 16y ago
I wished more RSS feeds did this by default, thank you.
- ugh 16y ago
  What? Scrape the websites they are linking to and putting their content in the feed? Sounds quite dangerous to me, maybe that’s the reason :)
  - iamdave 16y ago
    Well, I mean sites that publish their own feeds. I'd wish they'd include more than just the title in th feed. NY Times is notorious for just giving you a link after one sentence of text.
- deleted 16y ago
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aupajo 16y ago
I've been using this for a few months now. Many thanks to Nirmal Patel.
pierrefar 16y ago
Great work, thanks! I updated my mobile-friendly (optimized for thumb navigation) HN app: "Summary" feed: http://mhm.gd/hn/ http://mhm.gd/hn/ , the official HN RSS feed. "Full" feed: http://mhm.gd/hn/f http://mhm.gd/hn/f , this new feed with the full contents.
- PidGin128 16y ago
  We're calling these feeds, but are they really just compiled summary pages? I'm viewing from my mobile, and had trouble loading the link in the article, and the above comments' links appear to be pages, not feeds. Would streams be more accurate? It doesn't seem to imply RSS as much [to me at least]. [also, do any of the mentioned RSS aggregates include comments?]
  - PidGin128 16y ago
    Appendation: The feed link on the site's page didn't work, because of the unusual feed:// URI [ http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Feed_URI_scheme&oldid=345369984&printable=yes http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Feed_URI_scheme&#3... ]. Naturally my phone choked on this "resource". Originally: feed://readablefeeds.appspot.com/readability/feed?url=http%3A//news.ycombinator.com/rss Fixed: http://readablefeeds.appspot.com/readability/feed?url=http%3A//news.ycombinator.com/rss http://readablefeeds.appspot.com/readability/feed?url=http%3...
petercooper 16y ago
+1 for copyright violation. I'm no giant fan of copyrights, but reading content in a format actually produced by the author is the least you can do instead of mangling it up.
ronnier 16y ago
This was one of the ideas that lead me to make a mobile version of HN. It uses the same concept but provides a normal HN interface with a link that extracts the article text. http://toadjaw.com/hn http://toadjaw.com/hn if you wish to see or use it.
nirmal 16y ago
I posted this awhile back when I was hosting it under my blog domain (http://hacketal.com http://hacketal.com). The discussion with the prior post can be found at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=542334 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=542334

31 points by aupajo 16y ago

I've been using this for months now, and I was wondering how many of you know about it. It's the only way to read HN through your RSS reader. Many thanks to Nirmal Patel.

rokhayakebe 16y ago

It would be nice if this showed only the first paragraph + a link for more.

rcfox 16y ago
Maybe as a separate feed... In my opinion, having this as the only option defeats the purpose of RSS.

iamdave 16y ago

I wished more RSS feeds did this by default, thank you.

ugh 16y ago
What? Scrape the websites they are linking to and putting their content in the feed? Sounds quite dangerous to me, maybe that’s the reason :)
- iamdave 16y ago
  Well, I mean sites that publish their own feeds. I'd wish they'd include more than just the title in th feed. NY Times is notorious for just giving you a link after one sentence of text.
deleted 16y ago
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aupajo 16y ago

I've been using this for a few months now. Many thanks to Nirmal Patel.

pierrefar 16y ago

Great work, thanks! I updated my mobile-friendly (optimized for thumb navigation) HN app: "Summary" feed: http://mhm.gd/hn/ http://mhm.gd/hn/ , the official HN RSS feed. "Full" feed: http://mhm.gd/hn/f http://mhm.gd/hn/f , this new feed with the full contents.

PidGin128 16y ago
We're calling these feeds, but are they really just compiled summary pages? I'm viewing from my mobile, and had trouble loading the link in the article, and the above comments' links appear to be pages, not feeds. Would streams be more accurate? It doesn't seem to imply RSS as much [to me at least]. [also, do any of the mentioned RSS aggregates include comments?]
- PidGin128 16y ago
  Appendation: The feed link on the site's page didn't work, because of the unusual feed:// URI [ http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Feed_URI_scheme&oldid=345369984&printable=yes http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Feed_URI_scheme&#3... ]. Naturally my phone choked on this "resource". Originally: feed://readablefeeds.appspot.com/readability/feed?url=http%3A//news.ycombinator.com/rss Fixed: http://readablefeeds.appspot.com/readability/feed?url=http%3A//news.ycombinator.com/rss http://readablefeeds.appspot.com/readability/feed?url=http%3...

petercooper 16y ago

+1 for copyright violation. I'm no giant fan of copyrights, but reading content in a format actually produced by the author is the least you can do instead of mangling it up.

ronnier 16y ago

This was one of the ideas that lead me to make a mobile version of HN. It uses the same concept but provides a normal HN interface with a link that extracts the article text. http://toadjaw.com/hn http://toadjaw.com/hn if you wish to see or use it.

nirmal 16y ago

I posted this awhile back when I was hosting it under my blog domain (http://hacketal.com http://hacketal.com). The discussion with the prior post can be found at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=542334 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=542334