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How is this different from their own RSS feed? I think it's just saving them bandwidth.

• petercooper 17y ago
  It might not feature their advertising, their FeedFlare (if on FeedBurner - a great way to drive people to comments sections), special formatting, or tracking graphics that they use for statistics. Before the inevitable "But I don't care!" responses, whether or not these things are interesting to us as readers is not relevant - they're still differences that could cause publishers to be unhappy and cry foul. On the plus side, since the HN news is just an aggregation of many sources, it could encourage people to find new sources and subscribe to them directly in the long run. As a content provider myself, I'd be happy with this aggregator if it was indicated in each post what the original source is.. if that's missing, it needs to be added. We want attribution even if we're being syndicated ;-)