Hi all — hnrss creator here. I was wondering what caused the traffic spike today :)

If you have any feedback, questions, etc about hnrss please feel free to open a ticket: https://github.com/edavis/hnrss/issues/new

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Oh, and if you're using hnrss in interesting ways I'd love to hear about it! Reply below.

Thanks for providing the feeds. I have just used them to create an interactive timeline showing the latest 100 Hacker News submissions: https://www.chronoflotimeline.com/timeline/shared/3221/Hacke...

I've been using HNRSS for quite a while now.

It works so well that I thought it was the official feed.

Thank you.

> It works so well that I thought it was the official feed.

Reading this just made my day!

Are you the same edavis I might have seen spend a lot of time on IRC?

Doubtful... I don't think I ever managed to snag "edavis" as a nick on IRC. Sorry!

Thank you!

For HN's front page, I don't know why you'd use the hnrss feed rather than simply:

https://news.ycombinator.com/rss

Yeah, /frontpage was mostly added for completeness but you can toss filters like `?points=50` or `?q=javascript` onto it which might be helpful.

Very useful I must say. I have a bunch of those with different filters on points. Means the same article will show up multiple times but in more and more exclusive feeds. This removed my FOMO quite nicely!

Activity Parameters are the best feature. I use https://hnrss.org/newest?points=10 so you can catch a lot of flagged and removed posts too and tbh some of those are interesting that you would otherwise might not see.

I made https://orangesite.sneak.cloud to detect those, because while offtopic for HN, some are interesting.

Source: https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/orangesite

I use this url(https://hnrss.org/frontpage?points=95&comments=20) to get decent output in RSS feed but it's still not as good as the feeds that show up in the hackernewslive(https://t.me/hackernewslive) telegram channel.

I have been trying to figure out the filter whoever created the channel is using but no close to figuring it out. :(

It would be really awesome if people can share a filter they believe works better. :) I am trying to reduce the number of meh quality posts from HN in my freshrss(rss.ishanjain.me) instance.

People, Any good free rss reader with a card like front end ? I want to show posts from my rss aggregated feed in a nice HTML card like page... Want to share with my team

Sorry for the "not free" suggestion, but I use Feedly which I believe supports this use case. They offer shareable "boards" and a card view (among others).

Inoreader works well. It even snags pictures from a linked article in a hn rss feed to fill the card.

Thanks for the suggestion! I love the interface.

I've been using this for years, and it works great. The source can be found on Github:

https://github.com/edavis/hnrss

I think that's the old repository. This is the Go version:

https://github.com/edavis/go-hnrss

Here are binaries for x64 and ARMv8 (Raspberry Pi), if you trust Gitlab CI.

https://gitlab.com/somini/go-hnrss/

This is a nice longed for feature. Thanks. But I noticed something that I immidiatly did not enjoy.

1. I used the "Search" to create two feeds. The feedlist is good, brilliant. But it points directly to the linked item, not the Hackernews item. This is not what I want. It should point to the hackernews item, so I can read the comments. Because thats how I deside if I want to check out the item itself.

2. One of the feeds I created is for C++, but this gives me the result for "C " which will include C. "C++" and C++ both gave me "C ".

1) If you add `?link=comments` to any URL, that'll set the `<link>` element to point to the Hacker News item.

2) Good catch. I'll take a look.

I guess you need to urlencode it, try C%2B%2B

it should link to both ideally, so you can choose.

I would really love a feed of upvotes by a certain user. That way I could track my own upvotes via RSS, and then using IFTTT put those on Pinboard or Raindrop.io.

User upvotes are not publicly exposed AFAIK, though favourited comment/posts are.

Under the details section, it says it's valid RSS with a link to a validator. However, if you click it the results come out as not valid...

Might be good to check that out!

Good catch. It seems to be coming out valid now but maybe there was something invalid in the feed earlier. I'll keep an eye on it and see if it pops up again.

Thanks for the report!

Dammit, I thought of screenshotting the error, but was too lazy. Now I gave an unreproducible bug report... Surely this is karma at work.

Ha, it's all good. FWIW, the validator is now giving me a "recommendation" on the feed that I haven't seen before.

I wouldn't have checked the validator without your comment so in the end it all worked out!

Hacker News Daily: Daily top stories from Hacker News

http://www.daemonology.net/hn-daily/

The 10 highest-rated articles on Hacker News [...] which have not appeared on any previous Hacker News Daily

(With an RSS feed and daily email subscription, dating back to July 2010.)

I also provide

Ask HN Weekly: http://www.daemonology.net/hn-weekly-ask/ Show HN Weekly: http://www.daemonology.net/hn-weekly-show/

Interested in how you get past the HN terms of use? Do they have a licensing program or something? Also wondering about similar products reusing Reddit content.

> Commercial Use: Unless otherwise expressly authorized herein or in the Site, you agree not to display, distribute, license, perform, publish, reproduce, duplicate, copy, create derivative works from, modify, sell, resell, exploit, transfer or upload for any commercial purposes, any portion of the Site, use of the Site, or access to the Site. The buying, exchanging, selling and/or promotion (commercial or otherwise) of upvotes, comments, submissions, accounts (or any aspect of your account or any other account), karma, and/or content is strictly prohibited, constitutes a material breach of these Terms of Use, and could result in legal liability.

> Replies[new] New comments in reply to a particular user or comment.

Woohoo!

> By default, feeds come back as RSS. But if you add “.atom” or “.jsonfeed” to any endpoint you’ll receive the contents in Atom or JSON Feed, respectively.

Did JSON Feed gain any traction? I think I haven't heard anything about it for 2 years.

I have one reader who uses it on my very unknown blog [0].

[0] https://plurrrr.com/

Looks pretty useful. Not sure how to use it though.

The best way would be if I could make a little html page that fetches and renders them. But they do not provide the appropriate cors headers so that fails:

https://jsfiddle.net/nmvhuf4e/

So one would have to fetch them serverside and send it back to the frontend to read it.

Is there a rss reader which you can use without logging in? I don't keep cookies around, so logging in every time I want to look at one of these feeds would by annoying.

Ideally it would offer to put in the feed via a url like this:

coolreader.com/?url=hnrss.org/frontpage&fields=title,link

And then shows one row for each entry with title and link.

Or maybe there is a command line tool which will do this for the terminal?

My personal preference has always been receiving RSS updates as emails. I have a random server I run rss2email on, it has a list of feeds and generates an email every time a new item is posted.

That way I get local copies I can search (via my mailbox), and don't have to worry about maintaining state of all the feeds when I move computer. (i.e. Client on computer one might regard some feeds as new/unseen, even though I read them on my mobile.)

https://github.com/skx/rss2email

Traditionally, RSS Readers are programs run on your computer and thus require no login.

The only variants are popular, because you get the same experience from every device to sync subscribed feeds, read/unread counts etc.

You could host such a service yourself with something like tinytinyrss for example[0].

But you can just as well use any feed reader available for your platform of choice. Thunderbird for example has provided this feature for ages besides email.

They do of course also exist as terminal applications. One example would be newsboat[1].

[0] https://tt-rss.org/ [1] https://newsboat.org/

Another self-hosted RSS feeder reader I like to recommend is: https://miniflux.app/

I use it every day to sync between my devices via the Fever API it supports and it works great for years already.

Hmm... giving newsboat a try. A web solution would be better. As its kinda clunky to switch between a terminal and the web.

I don't want to host something myself.

If I have to, I would just make a service that reads and re-outputs the feed with appropriate cors headers so I can style it client side.

Maybe the author reads this and would consider adding the cors headers?

I am not sure I get the benefit of looking just at one rss feed at a time.

But that said, for the longest time, firefox did just style the feed directly and I am still sad they removed this. Maybe there is a browser plugin which just adds the style back?

> Maybe there is a browser plugin which just adds the style back?

https://code.guido-berhoerster.org/addons/firefox-addons/fee...

A browser plugin is a pretty heavy weapon. It gives a lot of power over your browsing to whoever controls it. So I would not use one just to read rss feeds.

Greasemonkey is really great to customize websites for your [weird] usage pattern. (Tampermonkey[0] works in Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Safari, Opera Next, and Firefox)

XHR is a pretty decent api that ignores CORS[1]

  GM.xmlHttpRequest({
    method: "GET",
    url: "http://www.example.com/",
    onload: function(response){alert(response.responseText)}
  });

[0] - https://www.tampermonkey.net/ [1] - https://wiki.greasespot.net/GM.xmlHttpRequest

I discovered https://fraidyc.at/ and I'm using this since.

I found this post from my RSS feed, I didn't understand at first :/

Same here. My thoughts: but I am using RSS right now. Looked up my configuration and, yup, I am using OPs service:D

I use this to create alerts in a dedicated #social-watch Slack channel, it's great for topic discovery. I wish other social media had built-in RSS (similar to how Reddit does it).

This is really useful stuff. I combined this with a side project of mine to get reply notifications from HN. IFTTT works great also if anyone wants to implement the same.

I found their front-page feed a bit overwhelming. So for my usage, I created: https://hnbest.pythonanywhere.com/. It curates from Hacker News' Best page (https://news.ycombinator.com/best) and sends around 4-5 stories every day.

What is the difference between the Algolia HN API vs the Hacker News API (https://github.com/HackerNews/API)? The Hacker News API doesn't have any rate limits but appears to be similar to the Algolia API. Does Algolia have its own HN dataset?

I've been using this for quite a while to get all posts with points >= 100. It's great.

I really like these feeds, but because it uses the Algoria API, it can't expose the feed I really want, which is a feed of flagged posts that got in the top N and/or a certain number of votes.

Also see http://hnapp.com/

What tech or tech-stack goes behind building these custom RSS feed providers.. I like the idea.. This can be provided to some common corpus as well?

Reading further, I found it's built on top of Algolia's Service.

That's cool, thanks! Scrolling through HN lately, I'm getting the feeling that RSS is making a comeback and trustfully I've always liked the idea behind RSS. What worries me these days is how regulations might get twisted if it does indeed make a comeback.

Could you expand on that last sentence? I haven't had coffee yet, and I'm legitimately failing to grasp which regulations you're referring to.

Running a service aggregating feeds (something like Google Reader was, or a hosted tintinyrss) this can become complicated with the different link taxes (ancillary copyright for press publishers) being introduced in different countries.

From a technical perspective I would argue that RSS feeds are offered for that purpose, lawyers might still see it as an infringement of rights granted by those laws ...

Poor choice of words on my end: "potential regulations that might get imposed"* as to what sort of data can an rss reader display, how it can be linked and all that mumbo jumbo ( similar scenario to this[0] or when google news got shut down in Spain [1] ).

[0] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/02/internet-rages-after...

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/media-network/2014/dec/12/google...