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How do you get this, may I ask? I asked because I didn't know how to get exactly that, so I'm building a site that finds RSS feeds from sites on the front page

by xrd 2y ago

How do you get this, may I ask? I asked because I didn't know how to get exactly that, so I'm building a site that finds RSS feeds from sites on the front page of HN. Then, at the end of the day it emails me with a summary if I miss one. https://RSS.surf https://RSS.surf If anyone wants to try the daily summary email would love feedback.

kcplate 2y ago
I use Feedly, which as a RSS reader is ok but probably one of the better ones available on iOS/iPadOS platform. I loved Google Reader back in the day, but Google loves to kill every product of theirs that I actually like and used. I believe the HN feed is available here: https://news.ycombinator.com/rss https://news.ycombinator.com/rss
- xrd 2y ago
  So, just to confirm, you prefer to read the news on hacker news via RSS? Why? I assumed you meant view the RSS for sites on HN but that's clearly different than what you were thinking.
  - jayemar 2y ago
    I do the same. I do it because I subscribe to sites other than HN, and by subscribing to the HN feed I can get the articles from HN as well as the other sites I subscribe to all in the same place, ie my feed reader (also using Feedly). Nothing overly original here as I assume personal content aggregation was one of the original intentions of RSS.
    - kcplate 2y ago
      Exactly for me as well. I maintain a list of feeds that interest me, HN is one of those. I’d say for general web consumption, pretty much the only way I consume anything now is if it arrived via my feeds.
  - kcplate 2y ago
    No if I want that, I’ll explore the sites for it. I prefer to consume HN via my feed reader. I feel like I receive most or all of the original topics/posta without regard to algorithm ranking. So I will see flagged and dead posts and can make my own determination on the topic without a bunch of HN folks determining what I will see. Of course by then commenting is disabled, but that’s fine.

by xrd 2y ago

kcplate 2y ago

I use Feedly, which as a RSS reader is ok but probably one of the better ones available on iOS/iPadOS platform. I loved Google Reader back in the day, but Google loves to kill every product of theirs that I actually like and used. I believe the HN feed is available here: https://news.ycombinator.com/rss https://news.ycombinator.com/rss

xrd 2y ago
So, just to confirm, you prefer to read the news on hacker news via RSS? Why? I assumed you meant view the RSS for sites on HN but that's clearly different than what you were thinking.
- jayemar 2y ago
  I do the same. I do it because I subscribe to sites other than HN, and by subscribing to the HN feed I can get the articles from HN as well as the other sites I subscribe to all in the same place, ie my feed reader (also using Feedly). Nothing overly original here as I assume personal content aggregation was one of the original intentions of RSS.
  - kcplate 2y ago
    Exactly for me as well. I maintain a list of feeds that interest me, HN is one of those. I’d say for general web consumption, pretty much the only way I consume anything now is if it arrived via my feeds.
- kcplate 2y ago
  No if I want that, I’ll explore the sites for it. I prefer to consume HN via my feed reader. I feel like I receive most or all of the original topics/posta without regard to algorithm ranking. So I will see flagged and dead posts and can make my own determination on the topic without a bunch of HN folks determining what I will see. Of course by then commenting is disabled, but that’s fine.