Hacker News Reader

Comment by yashasolutions | Hacker News Reader

Get an RSS reader. Collect sources over time. Will be your best bet.

This is very true.

To give an an example, in the front page of hacker news I only see what is boiling i.e what caught the attention of the masses. I hardly learn new stuff. I think this is true for any crowd-based news site rating system.

In contrast, when I open up my RSS reader and see posts of the blogs I subscribed to, I often learn new things that perhaps were simply not very interesting to the common HN in the same period of time, but are enriching to my general or technical knowledge.

The idea is to accumulate 300 or so low-frequency blogs, so that each day you would have a few posts to read from interesting people. Low frequency is good because the signal-to-noise ratio is often better.

Not specially fond of private solutions, but as an exiled from Google Reader and someone who's been using RSS this way for more than 10 years, the feature I like (and use) from Feedly the most is saving stuff for when I can spare some time reading.

Plus another tool for saving extra stuff (useful web apps, recipes and the like) I find there or in other places is really handy too, think like (now Mozilla's) Pocket or Raindrop, which allows you to sort your links in categories and access and sync them between your devices.

Hi there! Would you be willing to share some of your feed sources? I'm always on the lookout for good content, but I have a hard time diminishing the noise. Thank you for your time.

>The idea is to accumulate 300 or so low-frequency blogs

What does your list look like?

It is composed of the relatively small number of the high profile developers that occasionally pop up on HN. Most are blogs I found of less known developers which I bumped into when searching other stuff or when casually browsing Github/Twitter/StackOverflow. I try to add new feeds wherever I find them.

Would have shared RSS subscription list if was easily possible, however I use the newsboat [1] program and read the aggregate in the terminal. It's stored locally.

[1] https://newsboat.org/

I've got an RSS aggregator of sorts that I love adding good feeds to that I can get to online (more as a start page of its own)

If you have a way to share you list, I'd love to see it :)

I take it newsboat doesn't have a way to export its list of feeds?

Would anyone be willing to share an existing RSS feed list they have created? I have recently began creating a list using Akregator on Linux, but it is difficult to find the feeds of websites. Do you have any recommendations?

My list contains:

Lesswrong.com - thinking rationally

The Economist's World this week (and other content related to my liking) - news and current affairs

PG's essays

I also subscribe to a few newsletters like Farnam Streets, James Clear, Ness Labs

Thank you!

yeah this, Plus that LinkLonk.com that was presented recently. I check the newsletter daily and add sources as I see I need them.

Its growing faster than my RSS feed atm and that has over 1k feeds in it.

Good to see that the newsletter works! Let me know if you have any improvement suggestions for the newsletter.

I do wish that clicking a YES or NO didn't open a new tab. but I'm unsure how you'd fix this.

It seems like this would not be possible: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37334942/how-to-avoid-la... Maybe a piece of JavaScript on the opened page could close the page? In that case you would see the page open and then immediately close. Though it may seem to some users that their rating submission failed.

I should probably add more useful information to the opened page. Right now it says "You will see more content from 2 RSS feeds and 3 people that recommended this". But I could add links to the item details page that has related recommendations. Or I could add links to the RSS feeds so you could explore them more.

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