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Ask YC: RSS feed for all new posts submitted to Hacker News?

10 pointszeedotme11 comments

I'm looking for a way to grab the rss feed for all new submissions to YC - is there a way? With thanks.

There you go: http://feedity.com/rss.aspx/ycombinator-com/UlFVU1pU

Give our startup a try, to create a custom RSS feed: Feedity - http://feedity.com

by the way,

why do you limit the number of feeds in a free account to ten while apparently an user without an account could create an unlimited number of feeds ?

Yes, a user without an account can create unlimited feeds, but those feeds self-update much slowly (as compared to feeds for a user with an account), and secondly, a user without an account cannot manage all their feeds in one place (i.e. to edit the feeds later, to check stats, or to create streams etc).

But I still think that the number of feeds for a free user is ridiculously low.

I think that you should double it even if it means reducing the refresh rate for all feeds (or maybe having a "normal" refresh rate for the ten first feeds and a "lower" refresh rate for the other ones)

Edit: And you don't have to tell the users about it.

There's a link on the bottom of the main page. Anyway, here it is: http://news.ycombinator.com/rss

Thats the highest rated feed, I think this post is about adding one for http://news.ycombinator.com/newest

don't think there's an RSS feed for that :/

I have written a screen scraper for the page in ruby. Mail me if you want it. You might be able to generate a feed from that.

Take a look at Mozenda.com I was using them for basic scraping, but I read on their site that they have an extension to turn what they scrape directly into and RSS feed.

Hope that helps.

At 650 posts a week, I don't think that feed is highest rated. I've clicked plenty of articles from the feed that are low rated or brand new.

I wish there was a highest rated feed - the default feed is way too noisy.

While your at it, a rss feed for http://news.ycombinator.com/best would be great!

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