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Comment by jgalvez | Hacker News Reader

Just came in to say I read this in a RSS reader.

Did you read it or get a link to it? That's a subtle but important difference. I love RSS and it seems to be available every where I want it to be, even if it's a bit hidden, but it's almost always just links, maybe a snippet. The only exception in my current list is Planet GNU.

You can read it with:

https://github.com/damng/hackernews-rss-with-inlined-content

This generates an RSS feed with the contents of the articles inlined and available at https://damng.github.io/hackernews-rss-with-inlined-content/...

By-passes most soft paywalls. No Javascript. No Tracking. No 'social' media buttons. No modal dialogs. Just text you can read in a terminal based rss reader like canto.

Cool, I'll use it, at least until the hosted site gets a take-down request :)

that's ok. i'll just make a new github account or host a static file somewhere else

How do you read HN via RSS reader?

Here are a couple of options:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/rss

* https://edavis.github.io/hnrss/

How does hn decide what articles to put on rss?

They're in the same order as the front page

If the /rss query always return the current front page order articles, then I wonder how RSS subscription services work to mark some of them read and some not.

Should probably need to know how RSS actually works.

Well formed feeds have unique id's per item, that stay the same even with title or order or timestamp changing.

I think it's actually /newest. I don't remember the RSS feed ever rearranging stories up and down the list.

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