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Patch to fix RSS feed for News.YC

67 points by wheels 18y ago

wheels 18y ago
A couple folks mentioned I should post it here, full details here: http://arclanguage.org/item?id=9092 http://arclanguage.org/item?id=9092 And this feature request: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=92734 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=92734
riklomas 18y ago
Instead of a patch, could we have a separate RSS feed for stories in order? (I'm being lazy here, as the change would break the News.YC twitterbot http://twitter.com/newsycombinator http://twitter.com/newsycombinator)
- wheels 18y ago
  Well, the current feed is basically invalid. It's not structured the way RSS feeds are supposed to be, and I'd consider breaking the Twitter bot better than breaking all newsreaders. I've at least tested in Mail.app and Thunderbird and I've heard the same for Google's reader. I'm a really heavy RSS user and news.yc is basically the only news site I frequent where the feed is not usable. If I were reading via RSS that'd also open up some options for filtering with Yahoo Pipes, which I do with a lot of my RSS feeds, since I'm not particularly interested in the mainstream stories that hit news.yc (NYT, BBC, Slate, Salon, et al)
frisco 18y ago
Just awesome. Open source at its best: wanted the fix, wrote the patch. Hopefully pg^H^Hupstream will accept it after vetting.
- erlanger 18y ago
  Where do we go to see commit messages and such? I'm trying to gauge how open the project is, and am curious about details beyond the source itself.
  - frisco 18y ago
    I mean, you don't have access to pg's version control, but he released the News.YC source as a part of Arc (http://arclanguage.org/install http://arclanguage.org/install) with the directive "go now, and bring forth clones." That fits my definition of open.
paul 18y ago
Here's another option if you want a (hopefully) well-formed and de-duped news.yc RSS feed: http://friendfeed.com/api/feed/room/newsyc?format=rss http://friendfeed.com/api/feed/room/newsyc?format=rss
- wheels 18y ago
  Another fun RSS / Friendfeed hack: I use the RSS stream from searchyc to pipe my news.YC comments into my Friendfeed stream.
elidourado 18y ago
Can we also get the url, or at least the host, of the link in the RSS feed, as we get it on the homepage?
mrkurt 18y ago
I'd pay someone bits of currency if they could give me an RSS feed of my "saved" links.
- wheels 18y ago
  It'd be pretty trivial to add once the RSS feed in general is fixed (as in, maybe 5 lines of code). In some ways this patch is an experiment: if it looks like in general Paul is interested in patches I'll probably implement a few things on my wishlist. If this patch in some form doesn't go in, it's honestly not worth my effort to implement / fix things since I don't have any intention of running an arc news site myself.
- wallflower 18y ago
  Yes, I didn't realize that "saved" links aren't perpetual (only go back to 210 total - which, for me, is 41 days). Thankfully, there is http://searchyc.com http://searchyc.com to surface old, good articles.
didroe 18y ago
It'd be really nice if the RSS feed went to HN and not directly to the article. The RSS feed is useless to me as I have to have the HN page open anyway to get to people's comments.
- wheels 18y ago
  Tried it once with a Yahoo Pipes mashup. The problem is that it gets an "updated" status every time somebody writes a comment which is annoying for the way I read RSS.

67 points by wheels 18y ago

A couple folks mentioned I should post it here, full details here: http://arclanguage.org/item?id=9092 http://arclanguage.org/item?id=9092 And this feature request: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=92734 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=92734

riklomas 18y ago

Instead of a patch, could we have a separate RSS feed for stories in order? (I'm being lazy here, as the change would break the News.YC twitterbot http://twitter.com/newsycombinator http://twitter.com/newsycombinator)

wheels 18y ago
Well, the current feed is basically invalid. It's not structured the way RSS feeds are supposed to be, and I'd consider breaking the Twitter bot better than breaking all newsreaders. I've at least tested in Mail.app and Thunderbird and I've heard the same for Google's reader. I'm a really heavy RSS user and news.yc is basically the only news site I frequent where the feed is not usable. If I were reading via RSS that'd also open up some options for filtering with Yahoo Pipes, which I do with a lot of my RSS feeds, since I'm not particularly interested in the mainstream stories that hit news.yc (NYT, BBC, Slate, Salon, et al)

frisco 18y ago

Just awesome. Open source at its best: wanted the fix, wrote the patch. Hopefully pg^H^Hupstream will accept it after vetting.

erlanger 18y ago
Where do we go to see commit messages and such? I'm trying to gauge how open the project is, and am curious about details beyond the source itself.
- frisco 18y ago
  I mean, you don't have access to pg's version control, but he released the News.YC source as a part of Arc (http://arclanguage.org/install http://arclanguage.org/install) with the directive "go now, and bring forth clones." That fits my definition of open.

paul 18y ago

Here's another option if you want a (hopefully) well-formed and de-duped news.yc RSS feed: http://friendfeed.com/api/feed/room/newsyc?format=rss http://friendfeed.com/api/feed/room/newsyc?format=rss

wheels 18y ago
Another fun RSS / Friendfeed hack: I use the RSS stream from searchyc to pipe my news.YC comments into my Friendfeed stream.

elidourado 18y ago

Can we also get the url, or at least the host, of the link in the RSS feed, as we get it on the homepage?

mrkurt 18y ago

I'd pay someone bits of currency if they could give me an RSS feed of my "saved" links.

wheels 18y ago
It'd be pretty trivial to add once the RSS feed in general is fixed (as in, maybe 5 lines of code). In some ways this patch is an experiment: if it looks like in general Paul is interested in patches I'll probably implement a few things on my wishlist. If this patch in some form doesn't go in, it's honestly not worth my effort to implement / fix things since I don't have any intention of running an arc news site myself.
wallflower 18y ago
Yes, I didn't realize that "saved" links aren't perpetual (only go back to 210 total - which, for me, is 41 days). Thankfully, there is http://searchyc.com http://searchyc.com to surface old, good articles.

didroe 18y ago

It'd be really nice if the RSS feed went to HN and not directly to the article. The RSS feed is useless to me as I have to have the HN page open anyway to get to people's comments.

wheels 18y ago
Tried it once with a Yahoo Pipes mashup. The problem is that it gets an "updated" status every time somebody writes a comment which is annoying for the way I read RSS.