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Ask HN: What are your favorite RSS feeds?
4 points by nat42 on July 6, 2023 | hide | past | favorite | 8 comments
I saw safety1st's comment [1] with a list of favorite news sources, blogs, and rss feeds.

After the two recent posts [2][3] with everyone sharing their blogs, I'm curious what else ya'll are following - rss feeds, newsletters, etc.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36612338

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36575081

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36605493



https://maxwelldulin.com/Resources - short summaries of highly technical security posts (4/wk)

https://portswigger.net/research - web security research from the geniuses at portswigger (1/wk)

https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/ - project zero's research (1/mo)

https://hn.invades.space/hn_gems_rss.xml - top links extracted from comments on top hn posts (85/wk)

https://kevinlynagh.com/ - posts regularly contain a great selection of links (1/mo)

http://www.paulgraham.com/ - classics (1/mo)

https://www.bellingcat.com/ - open source research (1/mo)

https://pudding.cool/ - art using web technology (1/wk)

https://www.experimental-history.com/ - psychology (1/wk)


I would love to see some big rollup feeds of tech blogs like the ones in the lists you link above.

I am using Superfeedr toingest RSS/Atom feeds into YOShInOn, my smart RSS reader, which costs 10¢ per feed per month, I am ingesting upwards of 2000 articles a day with a $8/month bill. I'd like to subscribe to 2000 small blogs that publish an article every week or month but that's not affordable even with bulk discounts and even if I stood up another ingestion system it would ridiculous to poll all those blogs 100 times for every article I get, and if more people started doing what I do, the load on those blogs would get unreasonable.

There used to be "Planet" software that would aggregate RSS feeds but the site for the software is dead although there are a few surviving planets like

https://planet.postgresql.org/

I wish we had more of them.


You may be interested in Osmosfeed: https://github.com/osmoscraft/osmosfeed

It is a static site feed aggregator primarily designed to go with GitHub Pages. I host one to aggregate my own writing on different sites. I think it may fit your use case because your Osmosfeed site itself outputs a single Atom feed. So, for example, if I have an Osmosfeed site that aggregates feeds 1, 2, and 3, the Osmosfeed site has a single feed which will include the three individual feeds. Mine has about 10-12 feeds and it has worked perfectly thus far with no issues. Not sure if it would have problems at higher numbers.


I've been paying for feedly, which tries to do some "smart" prioritization (similar to other things you've read/saved), but for the most part I skim over everything and just mark things as done in bulk...

Do you have a link to YOShInOn (is it open source/are there more details somewhere)? I'm curious


I’ve got lots of people asking. I do demos of it for people who contact me via the info in my profile.

I do have to make a slide deck or web page about it, I think there’s a lot of information that would be useful to other people who might want to try something similar but I have to make up my mind about directions for it to go.

On one hand I like it as an RSS reader and there is a direction where it gets mashed up with a bookmarks manager and is a sort of “consumer” product with the serious caveat that a self-hosted version is going to require you to classify maybe 200 articles for it to start really learning, it performs great with 1000 judgements and improves to around 8000 or so. There are techniques that could improve the “cold start” but they are not so interesting to me personally because I am swimming in judgements (although I could certainly subset the ones I have to do lots of experiments.)

There’s also a possible “pro” product which would be more configurable and aimed at say, professional patent searchers, recruiters, job seekers, people doing literature reviews and meta analysis and such.

There’s a definite tension between adding the features I want and doing the work that (I imagine) would make it useful for others, over time I am working on the architecture so I could put the features that I don’t want to share with others (like a mildly dangerous “engagement” model that I think many people would find annoying, social media share buttons for obscure platforms, etc.) into plugins and also get the data structures right so it can be forked w/o breaking the database.


These are the feeds I am following: https://feeds.pub/timqian

disclaimer: I built feeds.pub, to subscribe and share RSS feeds


I have a long list, so I'll choose a few personal favorites that may be of interest to HN readers:

https://nicole.express/feed.xml (tinkering with old games and game hardware)

https://shumplations.com/feed (translations of Japanese game developer interviews)

https://www.loc.gov/collections/global-legal-monitor/?fo=rss (summaries of legal news from around the world)

https://reason.com/people/josh-blackman/feed (legal analysis and commentary from Josh Blackman)

https://yukinu.com/feed/atom.xml (charming small web site with links to interesting sites, tech experiments, and looks at old tech)

https://feed.tedium.co (well-researched essays on a variety of topics)

https://blog.sakugabooru.com/feed (detailed essays on the anime industry and production)

htpps://perishablepress.com/feed/atom (personal website of WordPress developer Jeff Starr)

https://ai.mee.nu/feed/atom (daily tech news with strong opinions)

https://www.washingtontimes.com/rss/authors/stephen-dinan (one of the best reporters on immigration law/border issues)

https://liliputing.com/feed (news about mini PCs and mobile devices)

https://worldofmatthew.com/index.xml (essays on digital ownership and random musings)

I would also humbly recommend my own writing project, link in my profile if you're interested

I also recommend looking at Morss.it (https://morss.it/) if there is a site you want to subscribe to without a feed. It generally works very well (RSS Bridge and RSS Hub serve the same purpose if you want to self-host).


Edit --

Perishable Press feed: https://perishablepress.com/feed/atom




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