Hacker News Reader

Comment by kcplate | Hacker News Reader

Def how I consume HN. It’s even nice to see flagged and dead which I wouldn’t see easily if I came via the HN homepage.

How do you get this, may I ask?

I asked because I didn't know how to get exactly that, so I'm building a site that finds RSS feeds from sites on the front page of HN. Then, at the end of the day it emails me with a summary if I miss one.

https://RSS.surf

If anyone wants to try the daily summary email would love feedback.

I use Feedly, which as a RSS reader is ok but probably one of the better ones available on iOS/iPadOS platform. I loved Google Reader back in the day, but Google loves to kill every product of theirs that I actually like and used.

I believe the HN feed is available here: https://news.ycombinator.com/rss

So, just to confirm, you prefer to read the news on hacker news via RSS? Why?

I assumed you meant view the RSS for sites on HN but that's clearly different than what you were thinking.

I do the same. I do it because I subscribe to sites other than HN, and by subscribing to the HN feed I can get the articles from HN as well as the other sites I subscribe to all in the same place, ie my feed reader (also using Feedly). Nothing overly original here as I assume personal content aggregation was one of the original intentions of RSS.

Exactly for me as well. I maintain a list of feeds that interest me, HN is one of those.

I’d say for general web consumption, pretty much the only way I consume anything now is if it arrived via my feeds.

No if I want that, I’ll explore the sites for it.

I prefer to consume HN via my feed reader. I feel like I receive most or all of the original topics/posta without regard to algorithm ranking. So I will see flagged and dead posts and can make my own determination on the topic without a bunch of HN folks determining what I will see. Of course by then commenting is disabled, but that’s fine.

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