Re:Ask HN: What do you read for general knowledge?
by Gualdrapo on Monday December 13, 2021 @01:34AM
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Not specially fond of private solutions, but as an exiled from Google Reader and someone who's been using RSS this way for more than 10 years, the feature I like (and use) from Feedly the most is saving stuff for when I can spare some time reading.
Plus another tool for saving extra stuff (useful web apps, recipes and the like) I find there or in other places is really handy too, think like (now Mozilla's) Pocket or Raindrop, which allows you to sort your links in categories and access and sync them between your devices.
Re:Ask HN: What do you read for general knowledge?
by clay-dreidels on Monday December 13, 2021 @01:53AM
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Hi there! Would you be willing to share some of your feed sources? I'm always on the lookout for good content, but I have a hard time diminishing the noise. Thank you for your time.
Re:Ask HN: What do you read for general knowledge?
by warrenm on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @09:50AM
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>The idea is to accumulate 300 or so low-frequency blogs
What does your list look like?
Re:Ask HN: What do you read for general knowledge?
by da-x on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @04:47PM
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It is composed of the relatively small number of the high profile developers that occasionally pop up on HN. Most are blogs I found of less known developers which I bumped into when searching other stuff or when casually browsing Github/Twitter/StackOverflow. I try to add new feeds wherever I find them.
Would have shared RSS subscription list if was easily possible, however I use the newsboat [1] program and read the aggregate in the terminal. It's stored locally.
Re:Ask HN: What do you read for general knowledge?
by warrenm on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @12:52PM
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I've got an RSS aggregator of sorts that I love adding good feeds to that I can get to online (more as a start page of its own)
If you have a way to share you list, I'd love to see it :)
I take it newsboat doesn't have a way to export its list of feeds?
To give an an example, in the front page of hacker news I only see what is boiling i.e what caught the attention of the masses. I hardly learn new stuff. I think this is true for any crowd-based news site rating system.
In contrast, when I open up my RSS reader and see posts of the blogs I subscribed to, I often learn new things that perhaps were simply not very interesting to the common HN in the same period of time, but are enriching to my general or technical knowledge.
The idea is to accumulate 300 or so low-frequency blogs, so that each day you would have a few posts to read from interesting people. Low frequency is good because the signal-to-noise ratio is often better.