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domysee··on Select * from Internet.blogposts
I think for any kind of widespread adoption we're a couple of decades out regarding feasibility. The problem for managing your own thing is not necessarily the usability of current software (although that too), but education of the masses regarding technology.

It'd be great if schools taught foundations like how the internet works (not in-depth, but basics like what a server is) and how to create your own server. People would get gradually less afraid of technology and that'd enable systems like this.

As it stands, people are just more comfortable using walled gardens because their data is managed for them and they don't bear any responsibility for it.

domysee··on TypeScript 7.0 RC
Been using tsgo for months and unfortunately had many random crashes, the speedup made it worth it though. Looking forward to try the release candidate.
domysee··on OneDrive data now has an expiry date
Besides the OneDrive hate here, this doesn't seem that newsworthy? It reads like the storage of users that have their license revoked will be deleted. Which is how I'd expect the service to work. If anything, it's weird that their files were kept.
domysee··on OneDrive data now has an expiry date
There are actually really good free backup solutions, like https://kopia.io/ Tried a couple of paid ones first because I didn't know about them, but this is even better
domysee··on Jujutsu megamerges for fun and profit
It sounds like the same workflow that GitButlers UI has. Can anyone with more knowledge than me confirm or deny that?
domysee··on Publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere
I wrote an article about the different kinds of feed readers and listing a bunch, maybe that's useful: https://lighthouseapp.io/blog/feed-reader-deep-dive
domysee··on Ask HN: What are the best engineering blogs with real-world depth?
This may be because most feed readers don't have a proper way to triage items. Adding a feed doesn't mean you want to read everything from said feed. Usually only a subset of articles are interesting.

I built a feed reader with that concept in mind, having a separate triage stage where you only decide if it's worth reading or not. This will make it easier to handle large feed lists and find the best articles from them.

https://lighthouseapp.io/

domysee··on Ask HN: Is RSS Still Alive?
> So, I looked for them as well but few websites have them.

Many sites have rss, it‘s just not advertised as much as it was some years ago. I built a feed finder tool that goes far beyond rss autodiscover, it might be useful: https://lighthouseapp.io/tools/feed-finder

And an article how it works: https://lighthouseapp.io/blog/deep-dive-finding-rss-feeds

domysee··on Cloudflare was down
It's back!
domysee··on Cloudflare was down
I'm just realizing how much we depend on Cloudflare working. Every service I use is unreachable. Even worse than last time. It's almost impossible to do any work atm.
domysee··on Show HN: A word of the day that doesn't suck
If that happens with other websites too, you can also use feed finder tools like https://lighthouseapp.io/tools/feed-finder
domysee··on Ask HN: Does an RSS-based Read-It-Later service exist?
I developed Lighthouse (https://lighthouseapp.io/) where you can do something similar.

It's an RSS feed reader, and there's a browser extension with which you can add articles to your library directly. You can of course also add articles manually in the web UI.

If I understood you correctly this may be what you're looking for.

domysee··on Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot
A bunch of alternatives were already mentioned. If you’re looking for an rss feed reader that can also save links directly, Lighthouse[1] may be an option.

[1]: https://lighthouseapp.io/

domysee··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)
Lighthouse (https://lighthouseapp.io/) - a different take on RSS readers, focusing on inbox zero

RSS readers show content based on the feed they're coming from, and show read and unread items in the same list. That makes it difficult to know which items you've already seen, and is especially annoying for managing items that you want to read at some point but not anytime soon.

Lighthouse splits it into Inbox (new items) and Library (bookmarked items). This makes it possible to process new items quickly, and take your time with reading them.

domysee··on Ask HN: Do you have RSS on your site?
Often RSS feeds are not even in the page's metadata. There are tools that can help find them, basically by trying out common suffixes for feeds.

One such tool is https://lighthouseapp.io/tools/feed-finder

(Disclaimer: I'm the developer)

domysee··on I gave up on self-hosted Sentry (2024)
HyperDX is a great alternative to Sentry, much easier to self-host, and also open source.

It's relatively new and did take some tinkering to make it work properly, so I wrote a short article about it: https://weberdominik.com/blog/self-host-hyperdx

But the feature set and user experience is great!

domysee··on Show HN: RSS Launchpad – a tiny Firefox (mobile) RSS extension extractor
That all depends on how much time you have. Also, WordPress and other software create RSS feeds by default, so many people don't even know their website has a feed.
domysee··on Show HN: RSS Launchpad – a tiny Firefox (mobile) RSS extension extractor
It's nice that people care about RSS and add tools for it!

Btw if you want to improve the feed finding, here's an article that lists a bunch of ways for finding them even if they're not linked in the html metadata.

https://lighthouseapp.io/blog/deep-dive-finding-rss-feeds

domysee··on An approach for automated fact checking
Totally agree with all of your points. Specifically the framing of information. Simply checking if facts are true is not enough, it also depends on how they're presented.

It might be possible to extend this approach with the question "What else is important to understand the full context?" or something similar, and then search for that and present it.

One example I keep hearing about is the Trump<>Zelenskyy conversation, where news (at least in Europe) almost exclusively reported on the last 7min of a 1h conversation. Would be great to have something to cover these things too. But right now the cost seems prohibitive.

domysee··on Show HN: My Attempt to Organize the World of AI Dev Tools
In general you can use tools like https://lighthouseapp.io/tools/feed-finder to check for RSS feeds. It also didn't find a changelog feed though, the only one it finds is RSS and Atom feeds for the blog: https://cursor.com/rss.xml
domysee··on Show HN: Tool to create and edit blogrolls, with newsletter support
I developed an editor for blogrolls, you can try it out here: https://lighthouseapp.io/tools/blogroll-editor

The basic idea is that you can create a list of blogs and newsletters (via email to RSS) and then export it to an OPML file, which you or others can use to import the list in their favorite feed reader.

Recently I’ve seen it more and more that people publish blogrolls on their website/blog, but if I want to add them I have to do it one by one. OPML files are already used for exports of feed readers, but why not use them for sharing blogs too? That’s basically why I built it, to make sharing of blog lists easier.

I hope it’s valuable for you too. Any feedback or comments is very welcome of course!

domysee··on Escape the walled garden and algorithm black boxes with RSS feeds
Really great to see so many RSS stories recently.

I'm working on a feed reader, called Lighthouse (https://lighthouseapp.io/). It combines RSS feeds with read-it-later, by putting new content into Inbox, where you can either archive or bookmark. Bookmarked content shows up in Library.

It's fantastic for content curation.

domysee··on Escape the walled garden and algorithm black boxes with RSS feeds
Similar tool here: https://lighthouseapp.io/tools/feed-finder

Finds feeds even if they're not RSS autodiscoverable. Everything it does is described here: https://lighthouseapp.io/blog/deep-dive-finding-rss-feeds

domysee··on I've been advocating for RSS support, and you should too
RSS actually has fields for it, but I've never seen it used.

https://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification#optionalChannelEl...

ttl, skipHours, skipDays

Source: working on a feed reader (https://lighthouseapp.io/) and feed finder tool (https://lighthouseapp.io/tools/feed-finder).

domysee··on I've been advocating for RSS support, and you should too
Same for me, and would like to add my own list

1. https://lighthouseapp.io/ - feed reader combined with bookmarking

2. https://lighthouseapp.io/tools/feed-finder - tool to find RSS feeds (https://lighthouseapp.io/blog/deep-dive-finding-rss-feeds)

3. https://lighthouseapp.io/tools/newsletter-to-rss - tool to convert newsletters to RSS feeds

domysee··on I've been advocating for RSS support, and you should too
> RSS is great. Most blog engines support RSS by default.

The people creating websites often don't know that they're providing RSS feeds though, and never link to it.

To solve that I developed a tool that finds RSS feeds, even if RSS autodiscovery isn't implemented: https://lighthouseapp.io/tools/feed-finder

domysee··on I've been advocating for RSS support, and you should too
There are also a bunch of websites that have RSS feeds but don't link to them and don't make them available via RSS autodiscovery.

I created a tool to find such RSS feeds for as many cases as possible: https://lighthouseapp.io/tools/feed-finder

And if you're interested in the details: https://lighthouseapp.io/blog/deep-dive-finding-rss-feeds

domysee··on I ditched the algorithm for RSS
If I understand you correctly you want to filter a feed on specific criteria (e.g. topic). Even if the feed publishes a lot of other content, you want to know the ratio of bookmarked content based of the filtered feed, ignoring the other content.

It's a great point, and helps me extend the feature and make Lighthouse better. So, thank you!

Lighthouse actually has that data. It supports rules, and tracks if a rule made an action (e.g. archive an article). So basically the ratio could ignore all articles that were automatically archived by rules.

I need to think more about how the UX of it should be, but it's a good next step for the feature.

domysee··on I ditched the algorithm for RSS
I'm working on a feed reader that separates articles into Inbox and Library.

New content shows up in the inbox, where you can bookmark or archive. Bookmarked content shows up in the library.

Going through the Inbox and bookmarking interesting content is fast, and in the Library the high volume feeds don't matter as much (because you curated before and only have interesting content there).

https://lighthouseapp.io

domysee··on I ditched the algorithm for RSS
If you want to give a word filter a try, you can check out https://lighthouseapp.io/.

Rules are supported in the free plan as well, so it's easy to try out.

Plus it has a new feature which shows the ratio of bookmarked articles for feeds, which makes it easy to know which feeds to unsubscribe if it becomes too much.

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