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Ask HN: Who do you follow via RSS feed?

• Mixtape 9mo ago
  In no particular order: 404 Media, Ars Technica, BleepingComputer, The Register, The Verge, and Tomshardware. These usually sit in the corner of my screen through the day. Some are better than others for work purposes. The Verge could probably go, and 404 is a bit more socially-focused than the rest. In particular though, having rapid updates from BleepingComputer and El Reg is a great way for me to learn about new vulns, issues that might affect my users, etc.
• happytoexplain 9mo ago
  A few webcomics, some entertaining YouTube channels, and HN. It used to be a lot more, but nowadays, that's it.
• qanuta 9mo ago
  theonion.com Lots of webcomics NPR,BBC,CBC Local news ...and THIS site!
  • znpy 9mo ago
    > ...and THIS site! Via RSS?
    • topherjaynes 9mo ago
      https://news.ycombinator.com/rss https://news.ycombinator.com/rss
      • shashasha 9mo ago
        Amazed this is being discussed! I’ve only consumed hacker news via rss for maybe 15 years and I guess I didn’t know there was another way to read it at this point :)
• shantara 9mo ago
  Various webcomics, Youtube channels and Github releases for several projects.
  • znpy 9mo ago
    > Youtube channels I didn't know you could follow youtube channels via RSS! Where do I find the feed link, given a youtube channel?
    • shantara 9mo ago
      Many RSS aggregators automatically convert Youtube links to RSS. You can also do it manually: https://chuck.is/yt-rss/ https://chuck.is/yt-rss/ I have removed Youtube apps from all mobile devices and only watch the creators whose content I'm interested in through RSS, without notifications and distractions. It's a much more pleasant experience, definitely recommend.
    • nelsonfigueroa 9mo ago
      You can actually just paste the link to a youtube channel in your RSS reader and it should work. At least for me it works with NetNewsWire. For example, you should be able to copy and paste this directly into your RSS reader: https://www.youtube.com/@freecodecamp https://www.youtube.com/@freecodecamp
    • susam 9mo ago
      If you view the HTML source of a YouTube video page, there is a LINK tag that contains the feed URL. I have shared an example here: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46772655#46775759 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46772655#46775759>.
  • susam 9mo ago
    [EDIT: This was meant to be a reply to another comment in this thread but I posted it under the top-level comment by mistake. I am leaving this comment intact anyway, in case someone finds it useful.] The web browsers don't highlight the feed URL information embedded in the HTML anymore, quite unfortunately. But if you go to a YouTube video, say, <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kaIXkImCAM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kaIXkImCAM> and then view or inspect the HTML source, you can find the LINK tag for the feed: <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS" href="https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCi8C7TNs2ohrc6hnRQ5Sn2w"> So the feed URL in this case is: <https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCi8C7TNs2ohrc6hnRQ5Sn2w https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCi8C7TN...>.
• migmaldo 9mo ago
  In no particular order of preference: - Julia Evans - Daniel Stenberg - Geohot - Cloudflare and Netflix’s respective tech blogs - TorrentFreak - LWN.net - and some others in spanish -
  • dcminter 9mo ago
    Julia Evans is an absolute treasure.
  • embedding-shape 9mo ago
    > and some others in spanish Could you share some of them? Always looking for high quality authors from the home-sphere, but finding it increasingly difficult to find anything worthwhile.
• sdsd 9mo ago
  anthes.is, my favorite Unix blog
• topherjaynes 9mo ago
  SwissMiss https://feeds2.feedburner.com/Swissmiss https://feeds2.feedburner.com/Swissmiss
• tylerhillery 9mo ago
  In no particular order: - Anton Zhiyanov - Register Spill by Thorsten Ball - Phil Eaton - Mitchell Hashimoto - Gunnar Morling - Jack Vanlightly - Charity Majors - Bryan Cantrill - Marc Brooker - NULL BITMAP By Justin Jaffray Another tip is you can subscribe to YouTube Channels and Podcasts via RSS as well. I wrote a little bit about my setup to help reduce doom scrolling: https://tylerhillery.com/blog/how-i-consume-the-internet/ https://tylerhillery.com/blog/how-i-consume-the-internet/
• browningstreet 9mo ago
  98% of everything you follow has RSS. It’s not like a quaint, unlisted Vermont antique shop.
  • abnercoimbre 9mo ago
    This includes YouTube channels, major newspapers and podcasts! P.S. Even HN is something you should personally control. It's very useful whenever moderators flag a submission you might've liked.
• deleted 9mo ago
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• unindented 9mo ago
  Here’s the feeds I follow: https://www.unindented.org/follows/ https://www.unindented.org/follows/ (It’s my OPML file translated to HTML via Hugo.) As to why, they generally post original and insightful stuff on topics I care about, like web dev, security, Ruby, Rust, etc.
• navigate8310 9mo ago
  Crooked Timber Matt Lakeman Global China Pulse Sinocism Bartosz Ciechanowski brr Construction Physics Jonathan Nolan's substack On the Seams Quanta Magazine Matt Levine - Bloomberg Opinion Columnist Aeon | a world of ideas Classic Film and TV Café Experimental History The Marginalian The Prism - Gurvinder The Technium Westenberg. Chameth.com Activity in the release-notes tag All Things Distributed An Untitled Blog Charles Hugh Smith's Substack Chips and Cheese computers are bad Dwarkesh Podcast Francis Stokes :: Githublog iRi Rest of World - Latest Stories Shtetl-Optimized Signal Blog マリウス
• sien 9mo ago
  I use the fantastic Inoreader that is better than Google Reader was. I follow things that post maybe once or twice a week or once a month. For things with new information every day, like Hacker News, I check the website. A few of the things that I follow that may be a bit different for people are : Arnold Kling - a PhD economist who worked in technology and is genuinely different. https://arnoldkling.substack.com/ https://arnoldkling.substack.com/ Noah Smith - a PhD economist who writes about economics and the world https://www.noahpinion.blog/ https://www.noahpinion.blog/ Roger Pielke Jnr - a guy with a PhD who writes about climate and energy and was excommunicated by the climate priesthood. https://rogerpielkejr.substack.com/ https://rogerpielkejr.substack.com/ Andrew Sullivan - a conservative, gay, HIV positive, Catholic writer who campaigned for gay marriage. https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/ https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/
  • xela79 9mo ago
    another positive vote for Inoreader , really the best none self hosted, as long as you keep your subscriptions within their free limits :)
    • sien 9mo ago
      I pay. I've found it's worth it.
      • nxtbl 9mo ago
        Too bad that their new interface is awful. Wastes so much space, and cannot normally collapse the left bar at all. So first thing after updates or login is to hit "Support" and "Click here to switch back to the old version". It's way more usable and doesn't waste space for unnecassary things.
  • cagey 9mo ago
    me too; Inoreader was my first/only stop after Google Reader, and is one of the only paid subscriptions I maintain. Probably > 80% of my RSS feeds are Youtube channels.
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• mainmeister 9mo ago
  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1i4eR_TNyy2YV17soWyJnbQeH2_rUbjpB/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1i4eR_TNyy2YV17soWyJnbQeH2_r...
• nickthegreek 9mo ago
  techmeme and memeorandum are 2 great firehouse rss feeds that I appreciate.
• nhhvhy 9mo ago
  Jeff Geerling & XKCD are the two that stand out in my mind.
• Brajeshwar 9mo ago
  HN Personal Websites[1] by @susam was popular on Hacker News a few days back. 1. https://hnpwd.github.io https://hnpwd.github.io
• ajdude 9mo ago
  I use netnewswire as my client and I'm self hosting freshrss, so my subscriptions can be synced between my phone and computer. All of my YouTube and nebula channels I follow via RSS and I think that's kind of giving me the most bang for my buck. I can just get focused on the videos that I want to subscribe to without having to even go to YouTube and get pulled into the algorithm, as well as a few sub Reddits, hacker news front page (it's how I found this post), Lobste.rs, 404 Media, some local blogs (my food co-op, biking website, other community things), some web comics, one news group, and a couple forums. I've also contemplated Podcasts, but I still have a dedicated player for that.
• nelsonfigueroa 9mo ago
  Some I like: https://www.writesoftwarewell.com/ https://www.writesoftwarewell.com/ - very good software posts, mostly around Ruby on Rails. https://crankysec.com/ https://crankysec.com/ - Cybersecurity rants mostly, fun to read. https://www.wheresyoured.at/ https://www.wheresyoured.at/ - Ed Zitron's writings. Good counterpoints to all the AI hype these days. These come up often on HN but I'll call them out anyway: https://jvns.ca/ https://jvns.ca/ - Julia Evans, good technical content all around. https://xeiaso.net/ https://xeiaso.net/ - Xe Iaso, good technical content all around once again
• hahahahhaah 9mo ago
  No one. It psychologically makes me feel guilty if I can't keep up. I'd weirdly rather have an email and ignore or read it than pull rss and not read for ages. Funny enough the only time I used rss was when I had that cool outlook integration that made them seem like emails.
  • steanne 9mo ago
    i think thunderbird has an rss reader, though i've not tried it
  • chriswarbo 9mo ago
    > Funny enough the only time I used rss was when I had that cool outlook integration that made them seem like emails. I convert feeds to maildir, and read them in email clients (Thunderbird, KMail, Emacs+Gnus, Emacs+mu4e, etc.). That lets me use the same setup for emails and feeds; keeping them on a network mount makes sync trivial; etc. I use http://www.chriswarbo.net/git/feed2maildir http://www.chriswarbo.net/git/feed2maildir which is a fork of https://github.com/sulami/feed2maildir https://github.com/sulami/feed2maildir that rips out a bunch of unneeded complexity (config files, databases, fetching, looping, etc.)
• blackfawn 9mo ago
  This site, xkcd, liliputing, some various forums, etc. but the big problem I've started having w/ RSS is when sites set up Cloudflare and the RSS feed ends up behind the Cloudflare validation prompt - I've even emailed some sites but none have bothered to fix or exempt RSS.
• rcarmo 9mo ago
  I follow too many people, so I built https://feeds.carmo.io https://feeds.carmo.io with summaries. You might enjoy the selection there and upgrade to the original feeds as needed.
• chistev 9mo ago
  Shameless plug, follow mine - https://rxjourneyserver.pythonanywhere.com/rss_feed/rss/ https://rxjourneyserver.pythonanywhere.com/rss_feed/rss/ https://www.rxjourney.net/ https://www.rxjourney.net/
• brynet 9mo ago
  Shamelessly, I have a low volume rss feed for my static-HTML articles, but I'm also using rss for the embedded mastodon feed on my website. https://brynet.ca/ https://brynet.ca/
• matusp 9mo ago
  HackerNews - hnrss.org
• thefz 9mo ago
  Stephen Toub https://devblogs.microsoft.com/pfxteam/author/toub/feed/ https://devblogs.microsoft.com/pfxteam/author/toub/feed/ Raymond Chen https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/author/oldnewthing/feed https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/author/oldnewthin... Cory Doctorow https://pluralistic.net/feed/ https://pluralistic.net/feed/
• dcminter 9mo ago
  I roo am trying to curate my RSS feed to be doom-scrolling free. These largely achieve that for me. You'll find a smattering of political posts in them, but that's an inevitable side effect of living in abnormal political times. https://scrollprize.org/ https://scrollprize.org/ - The Vesuvius Challenge: Using high intensity X-ray scans and computation to attempt to retrieve lost scrolls from Pompei; real uplifting Sci-Fi stuff! Possibly the most heartwarming thing I know of on the internet; snatching ancient knowledge from the flames of history! What could be more poetic? https://www.science.org/blogs/pipeline https://www.science.org/blogs/pipeline - In the Pipeline: The blog of Derek Lowe (pharmaceutical chemist), (in)famous for articles like "Sand Won't Save You This Time" Always interesting, though a lot of the chemistry goes way way over my head. Some political stuff lately, unavoidably given the current secretary of health. https://blog.dshr.org/ https://blog.dshr.org/ - David Rostenthal: Digital preservationist. https://www.jeffgeerling.com https://www.jeffgeerling.com - Jeff Geerling: Raspberry Pi, Arm, digital radio, and other nerdery. I enjoy his videos, but I love that he does a plaintext version (first?) that's not just a transcript. https://commandcenter.blogspot.com/ https://commandcenter.blogspot.com/ - Rob Pike: Programming luminary (Go, UTF-8, Unix, etc.) https://fasterthanli.me https://fasterthanli.me - Faster than Lime: Amos's blog leaning heavily towards Rust. I'm a beginner in Rust, but I love this guy's style of writing even when the stuff he's writing about is beyond my current skill level. Anyway, those are my go-tos at the moment. I look forward to trying a bunch of the others recommended here. Oh and I currently use Feeder under Android as my RSS reader; it's unexciting, which is what I look for in an app these days :D A last recommendation - as part of trying to avoid doom-scrolling, I have a paper subscription to The Economist and I'm trying to train myself to read that instead of going to news sites. The lack of immediacy helps keep the emotional reaction in check (it's not as addictive of course).
• brianmz 9mo ago
  Multiple high quality company engineering blogs including https://netflixtechblog.com/ https://netflixtechblog.com/, https://www.uber.com/en-US/blog/engineering/ https://www.uber.com/en-US/blog/engineering/, DoorDash etc. https://techtalksweekly.io/ https://techtalksweekly.io/ - new software dev conference talks and podcasts https://ciechanow.ski/ https://ciechanow.ski/ - interactive articles about science and engineering https://jvns.ca/ https://jvns.ca/ - great technical content overall This is a great thread btw.
  • kohbo 9mo ago
    Great links. Was disappointed to see ciechanow.ski hasn't been updated since 2024.
    • brianmz 9mo ago
      I think he tends to publish only once or twice a year, so we'll probably need to stay patient.
• quinncom 9mo ago
  A few of the best reads in my Reader: - Apricitas Economics - Avery Pennarun - Civic Texts - Citation Needed - Derek Sivers - Die, Workwear! - Electrospaces.net - Ethan Mollick: One Useful Thing - Lukasz Olejnik: Tech Letters - Matt Kiser: What The Fuck Just Happened Today? - Molly White: Citation Needed - Paged Out! - Patrick McKenzie: Bits about Money - Peter Steinberger - Peter Welch: Still Drinking - Sam Rose - Simon Willison - Squishy Computer - Sylvain Kerkour - Zeynep Tufekci: NYT Here's a OPML of these: https://s.strco.de/f/feed-20260127.opml https://s.strco.de/f/feed-20260127.opml
• techtalksweekly 9mo ago
  Shameless plug. https://techtalksweekly.io https://techtalksweekly.io I'm building a newsletter (with an RSS feed available) called Tech Talks Weekly where my subscribers get one email per week with all the latest Software Engineering conference talks and podcasts.
• mold_aid 9mo ago
  404, The Gentleman Stationer, HTMLHell, call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu, Clagnut, Crooked Timber, Platypus, Tech Policy Press, Public Domain Review, Writing at Large, Coffee with a Codex (YT)
• swah 9mo ago
  Trying again to use this to avoid the algorithm from taking over. The reason is sometimes a go a few months without remembering of a specific channel then when I open that channel manually there's a bunch of new interesting content for me. Around 20 subreddits, 10 youtube channels and 10 blogs...
• binsquare 9mo ago
  I actually setup my reddit home as my RSS feed and that home is populated by my subreddits
• dennisjoseph 9mo ago
  https://simonwillison.net/ https://simonwillison.net/