Hacker News RSS Feed + Readability
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The Readability bookmarklet seems to do it just fine. I will need to investigate.
It seems to work fine with most blogging systems. I don't use one. I use Markdown, Python and rsync.
UPDATE: I received a request to add a Comments link to the top and did that. Makes sense if you like to check the comments before deciding what's worth reading. It will probably take a while before the code is reloaded.
Now, if only it had better twitter integration ...
If it really bothers, you can use chardet [1] to try to detect the real encoding (BeautifulSoup should use it if it's installed). But even this is not 100% foolproof.
The crux is that the basic alphabet is encoded the same. So you only notice it with special characters such as the curly quote and the em-dash.
I've not been in a situation to have to worry about either but I know that site owners make a conscious decision when they formulate the contents of their own RSS feeds. Some clearly don't want to provide all the goods in feed readers without an ad stream to compliment it.
I haven't gone through a lot of the feed yet so I apologize if I am missing some way you've already addressed this.
Regardless, Thanks! I really appreciate this feed.
That doesn't mean you shouldn't do it. I see you're a PhD student. What if I wrote a program that would let people republish your research in full without your prior consent? Yes, I could add a feature that limits this program to only working with research that's been approved for it, but that seems quite complicated.
This Readbility service is wrong. I guess that's why it's popular?
"What if I wrote a program that would let people republish your research in full without your prior consent"
Do it.
Incidentally, my hack isn't the original Readability service. My inspiration is http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/
You may be ok with it, but what about all the other folks out there? Checking with each of them would be the right thing to do, but complicated.
The culture of lifting original information and data regardless of the wishes of the original creator is a bad thing.
So perhaps there's a startup opportunity here, for a system that secures permission from people who are ok with their content being reproduced without their prior consent.
Perhaps there could be a service that creates a list of web sites where the content is licensed Creative Commons. Then, if someone was going to create a web app like this, they could filter that list against their web app to only include sites that have been licensed creative commons.
Similarly stripping the navigation also makes it easier to read, but then it loses it's value as a website.
I wonder if there is a readability wordpress plugin that could display the readability version in a JS pop-up overlay. I think if I can find one, I'll add that to my site.
Edit: I just tried it on DaringFireball. Beautiful.
Email address and twitter are in my profile.
Also, any fixes are much appreciated. Patch file not required. I've gotten a few emails that just show me where I should add code and why. :)