Hacker News Reader

I wouldn't mind a recommendation engine based on my RSS feeds. But when I subscribe to something via RSS I want to see all of that feed. I can manage unsubscribing myself.

View on HN

Good to know. I'm planning to add settings so you can control the behavior of each subscription (e.g. choose which ones you want a sample of, choose which ones you want the whole thing), so that workflow should be possible with Findka at some point.

> I'm planning to add settings so you can control the behavior of each subscription (e.g. choose which ones you want a sample of, choose which ones you want the whole thing)

This is exactly what I'd need. I don't really use RSS anymore, but when I did I had the problem that some sources (e.g. some random person's blog) would publish once every few weeks and I'd want to see every post, but others (e.g. the Guardian) would put out multiple posts an hour to the point that subscribing to them would drown out everything else in my feed.

Awesome, glad to get some confirmation. Findka's current sampling method might help with this already, by the way--since it starts out by picking a feed uniformly, posts from the guardian would take up the same percentage of your daily recommendations as posts from random blog, no matter how often the guardian publishes (at least until random blog's posts run out).

Reply on news.ycombinator.com