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Get an RSS reader. Collect sources over time. Will be your best bet.

clay-dreidels 5y ago
Would anyone be willing to share an existing RSS feed list they have created? I have recently began creating a list using Akregator on Linux, but it is difficult to find the feeds of websites. Do you have any recommendations?
- prashantsengar 5y ago
  My list contains: Lesswrong.com - thinking rationally The Economist's World this week (and other content related to my liking) - news and current affairs PG's essays I also subscribe to a few newsletters like Farnam Streets, James Clear, Ness Labs
  - clay-dreidels 5y ago
    Thank you!
senectus1 5y ago
yeah this, Plus that LinkLonk.com that was presented recently. I check the newsletter daily and add sources as I see I need them. Its growing faster than my RSS feed atm and that has over 1k feeds in it.
- lonk11 5y ago
  Good to see that the newsletter works! Let me know if you have any improvement suggestions for the newsletter.
  - senectus1 5y ago
    I do wish that clicking a YES or NO didn't open a new tab. but I'm unsure how you'd fix this.
    - spacecowboy17 5y ago
      It seems like this would not be possible: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37334942/how-to-avoid-launching-browser-when-a-link-within-email-message-is-clicked https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37334942/how-to-avoid-la... Maybe a piece of JavaScript on the opened page could close the page? In that case you would see the page open and then immediately close. Though it may seem to some users that their rating submission failed. I should probably add more useful information to the opened page. Right now it says "You will see more content from 2 RSS feeds and 3 people that recommended this". But I could add links to the item details page that has related recommendations. Or I could add links to the RSS feeds so you could explore them more.
da-x 5y ago
This is very true. To give an an example, in the front page of hacker news I only see what is boiling i.e what caught the attention of the masses. I hardly learn new stuff. I think this is true for any crowd-based news site rating system. In contrast, when I open up my RSS reader and see posts of the blogs I subscribed to, I often learn new things that perhaps were simply not very interesting to the common HN in the same period of time, but are enriching to my general or technical knowledge. The idea is to accumulate 300 or so low-frequency blogs, so that each day you would have a few posts to read from interesting people. Low frequency is good because the signal-to-noise ratio is often better.
- warrenm 5y ago
  >The idea is to accumulate 300 or so low-frequency blogs What does your list look like?
  - da-x 5y ago
    It is composed of the relatively small number of the high profile developers that occasionally pop up on HN. Most are blogs I found of less known developers which I bumped into when searching other stuff or when casually browsing Github/Twitter/StackOverflow. I try to add new feeds wherever I find them. Would have shared RSS subscription list if was easily possible, however I use the newsboat [1] program and read the aggregate in the terminal. It's stored locally. [1] https://newsboat.org/ https://newsboat.org/
    - warrenm 5y ago
      I've got an RSS aggregator of sorts that I love adding good feeds to that I can get to online (more as a start page of its own) If you have a way to share you list, I'd love to see it :) I take it newsboat doesn't have a way to export its list of feeds?
- Gualdrapo 5y ago
  Not specially fond of private solutions, but as an exiled from Google Reader and someone who's been using RSS this way for more than 10 years, the feature I like (and use) from Feedly the most is saving stuff for when I can spare some time reading. Plus another tool for saving extra stuff (useful web apps, recipes and the like) I find there or in other places is really handy too, think like (now Mozilla's) Pocket or Raindrop, which allows you to sort your links in categories and access and sync them between your devices.

Would anyone be willing to share an existing RSS feed list they have created? I have recently began creating a list using Akregator on Linux, but it is difficult to find the feeds of websites. Do you have any recommendations?

prashantsengar 5y ago
My list contains: Lesswrong.com - thinking rationally The Economist's World this week (and other content related to my liking) - news and current affairs PG's essays I also subscribe to a few newsletters like Farnam Streets, James Clear, Ness Labs
- clay-dreidels 5y ago
  Thank you!

senectus1 5y ago

yeah this, Plus that LinkLonk.com that was presented recently. I check the newsletter daily and add sources as I see I need them. Its growing faster than my RSS feed atm and that has over 1k feeds in it.

lonk11 5y ago
Good to see that the newsletter works! Let me know if you have any improvement suggestions for the newsletter.
- senectus1 5y ago
  I do wish that clicking a YES or NO didn't open a new tab. but I'm unsure how you'd fix this.
  - spacecowboy17 5y ago
    It seems like this would not be possible: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37334942/how-to-avoid-launching-browser-when-a-link-within-email-message-is-clicked https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37334942/how-to-avoid-la... Maybe a piece of JavaScript on the opened page could close the page? In that case you would see the page open and then immediately close. Though it may seem to some users that their rating submission failed. I should probably add more useful information to the opened page. Right now it says "You will see more content from 2 RSS feeds and 3 people that recommended this". But I could add links to the item details page that has related recommendations. Or I could add links to the RSS feeds so you could explore them more.

da-x 5y ago

This is very true. To give an an example, in the front page of hacker news I only see what is boiling i.e what caught the attention of the masses. I hardly learn new stuff. I think this is true for any crowd-based news site rating system. In contrast, when I open up my RSS reader and see posts of the blogs I subscribed to, I often learn new things that perhaps were simply not very interesting to the common HN in the same period of time, but are enriching to my general or technical knowledge. The idea is to accumulate 300 or so low-frequency blogs, so that each day you would have a few posts to read from interesting people. Low frequency is good because the signal-to-noise ratio is often better.

warrenm 5y ago
>The idea is to accumulate 300 or so low-frequency blogs What does your list look like?
- da-x 5y ago
  It is composed of the relatively small number of the high profile developers that occasionally pop up on HN. Most are blogs I found of less known developers which I bumped into when searching other stuff or when casually browsing Github/Twitter/StackOverflow. I try to add new feeds wherever I find them. Would have shared RSS subscription list if was easily possible, however I use the newsboat [1] program and read the aggregate in the terminal. It's stored locally. [1] https://newsboat.org/ https://newsboat.org/
  - warrenm 5y ago
    I've got an RSS aggregator of sorts that I love adding good feeds to that I can get to online (more as a start page of its own) If you have a way to share you list, I'd love to see it :) I take it newsboat doesn't have a way to export its list of feeds?
Gualdrapo 5y ago
Not specially fond of private solutions, but as an exiled from Google Reader and someone who's been using RSS this way for more than 10 years, the feature I like (and use) from Feedly the most is saving stuff for when I can spare some time reading. Plus another tool for saving extra stuff (useful web apps, recipes and the like) I find there or in other places is really handy too, think like (now Mozilla's) Pocket or Raindrop, which allows you to sort your links in categories and access and sync them between your devices.