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Polling for time sensitive things sucks. But for RSS, why not just poll once a day? Even if you're polling once an hour, a 304 response is, what, a few hundred bytes?

I just checked my own server logs, and HTTP 200 responses were 12.7% of the total requests against my rss.xml. Which is suboptimal I guess (I haven't made a single post this year) but isn't outrageously terrible.

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Maybe it's lame but I sure wish my agent could know the exact second that a new post gets posted to

https://www.righto.com/

and automatically posts it to HN. Sometimes having an average score/post doesn't seem enough to me and I think of adding a population of high scoring posts. Like that blog. Or those articles that have been posted 20 times before and gotten between 200-1200 points each time and will probably do so if you post them again.

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