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I use RSS for nearly everything. RSS allows you to avoid the fear of missing great stories or content due to timing, groupthink flagging, etc. You can also foll

by jyu 12y ago

I use RSS for nearly everything. RSS allows you to avoid the fear of missing great stories or content due to timing, groupthink flagging, etc. You can also follow individual user comments with RSS with some quick mods. An added bonus is that RSS preserves [dead] stories. Once a story is [dead], it won't show up in hn.algolia.com search results, even though it still shows up on HN.

hashtag 12y ago
You can also follow individual user comments with RSS with some quick mods Can you elaborate on how the mod works?
- jyu 12y ago
  I fed the custom hn.algolia.com search to something that made it into an RSS feed. So if I wanted to get an RSS feed of all of pg's comments, you could use this as the source link: http://hn.algolia.com/#!/story/sort_by_date/prefix/0/author%3APG http://hn.algolia.com/#!/story/sort_by_date/prefix/0/author%... Then I made a custom yahoo pipe to create an RSS feed, taking a username as a parameter: http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=b5d191396ff8e04acddcaedebc2d176d&_render=rss&username=pg http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=b5d191396ff8e04acd...
  - rahimnathwani 12y ago
    I had the same need, but didn't want to use Yahoo! pipes, so I submitted a small patch: https://github.com/algolia/hn-search/pull/27 https://github.com/algolia/hn-search/pull/27
    - walterbell 12y ago
      Taking that one step further, you can convert RSS to NNTP via http://gwene.org/ http://gwene.org/
      - rahimnathwani 12y ago
        This is awesome and brought a big smile to my face! Some questions: - Is trn still the most awesome news reader? It's been a while since I've used NNTP. - Does gwene.org still update? Every feed I found in the search results was last updated in March 2014 :( - Apart from RSS->NNTP being cool, is there any real situation in which I'd want to use this?
- rahimnathwani 12y ago
  The Algolia HN search app supports RSS feeds directly: http://hn.algolia.com/userfeed/rahimnathwani http://hn.algolia.com/userfeed/rahimnathwani

by jyu 12y ago

hashtag 12y ago

You can also follow individual user comments with RSS with some quick mods Can you elaborate on how the mod works?

jyu 12y ago
I fed the custom hn.algolia.com search to something that made it into an RSS feed. So if I wanted to get an RSS feed of all of pg's comments, you could use this as the source link: http://hn.algolia.com/#!/story/sort_by_date/prefix/0/author%3APG http://hn.algolia.com/#!/story/sort_by_date/prefix/0/author%... Then I made a custom yahoo pipe to create an RSS feed, taking a username as a parameter: http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=b5d191396ff8e04acddcaedebc2d176d&_render=rss&username=pg http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=b5d191396ff8e04acd...
- rahimnathwani 12y ago
  I had the same need, but didn't want to use Yahoo! pipes, so I submitted a small patch: https://github.com/algolia/hn-search/pull/27 https://github.com/algolia/hn-search/pull/27
  - walterbell 12y ago
    Taking that one step further, you can convert RSS to NNTP via http://gwene.org/ http://gwene.org/
    - rahimnathwani 12y ago
      This is awesome and brought a big smile to my face! Some questions: - Is trn still the most awesome news reader? It's been a while since I've used NNTP. - Does gwene.org still update? Every feed I found in the search results was last updated in March 2014 :( - Apart from RSS->NNTP being cool, is there any real situation in which I'd want to use this?
rahimnathwani 12y ago
The Algolia HN search app supports RSS feeds directly: http://hn.algolia.com/userfeed/rahimnathwani http://hn.algolia.com/userfeed/rahimnathwani