Hacker News Reader

Comment by acidburnNSA | Hacker News Reader

I love RSS for this. I go to one RSS aggregator that I self-host (trivial, via FreshRSS [1]) that has subscriptions to things like:

Fun: comics, pictures, APOD, some hobby reddit threads (fun fact: reddit presents pretty much anything including search queries as RSS if you append .rss)

Journals: professional journals in my field

Local: Neighborhood blogs, local news, utility company blog, local police crime notes, weather blogs, etc. (all have RSS feeds)

Industry: industry news from various podcasts, institutional blogs, regulator blogs, other subreddits reddits

Global news: RSS feeds from my local big city newspaper

Software news: Cloudflare status reports, release note blogs from my favorite softwares

Work: rss feeds from github on some work repos.

Then I come to HN and Twitter directly as well... (shame)

[1] https://www.freshrss.org/

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I built a thing that splices HackerNews into an RSS Reader so you can see it all in the same place.

What's neat is it ingests the points from HackerNews, so you can splice the feeds together in a way that preserves the ranking of both feeds.

website: www.spronket.com tutorial video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ug4ZqLro0-o

lmk if you have any questions or feature requests

I spent a couple of months trying to find podcasts, but they all seem to consume way to much time for value provided. Can you recommend any high value podcasts that don't just ramble about this weeks business press releases? I don't even care what fields, I used to love just the general consumption of what is going on in the world that the (now) dead internet used to provide.

I really love this podcast: https://wherewegonext.com/episodes

Oxide and Friends is BY FAR the best tech podcast you could ever listen to. Look it up.

Out of curiosity... Does anyone use the rss reader in MS Outlook? I know MS is supposed to pack a lot of features to catch as much audience as possible, but are there enough people still using it to this day?

RSS in your email client is a bad idea IMO.

I used thunderbird like that a lot but everytime I needed to read or send an email for something productive I'd see that there's a new post somewhere and I'd check it.

It was actually a pretty decent thing if you set up a dedicated account (I used to maintain rss2mail and https://github.com/rcarmo/rss2imap).

I still have archived posts in MIME format, complete with images, etc. Amazing for archival purposes.

The tricky thing is actually dealing with title-only feeds - these days apps like Reeder will fetch a readable version of posts automatically, and I never got around to implementing that in earnest.

I used it for a few years to access rss feeds from non-public internet routable jira servers. It was pretty nice to monitor new issues across lots of projects.

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