Show HN: 100kb – an opinionated feed of personal blogs

Posted by danhilltech on Thursday August 22, 2024 @09:05AM
from the show-hn dept.

https://100kb.danhill.is/

Hi HN! This is a personal project I finally got round to completing and shipping.

It’s a simple feed of articles written by real people with interesting things to say.

I wanted to explore some new technologies I haven't had a chance to try before, mostly rust and LLMs.

As I browse HN each day I find myself most drawn to the content on personal blogs: people who have interesting things to say, from their own point-of-view, on a whole range of topics. Rather than being interested in particular topics, I’m more interested in reading from interesting people.

This isn't a particularly new idea, there's been plenty of similar projects shared on HN and on the internet (Kagi Search, Marginalia, Bearblog etc). But, I don't think personal projects need to be revolutionary to be useful (to me at least).

It's open source here https://github.com/danhilltech/100kb.golang

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Re:Show HN: 100kb – an opinionated feed of personal blogs by nayuki on Thursday August 22, 2024 @09:38AM (#41320153)

It reminds me of The 512KB Club. https://512kb.club/ , https://github.com/kevquirk/512kb.club , https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30125633

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Re:Show HN: 100kb – an opinionated feed of personal blogs by tiffanyh on Thursday August 22, 2024 @10:07AM (#41320440)

Is this effectively your RSS subscription list (made public)?

And if so, it would be great if you offered RSS capability so that I can subscribe to it.

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Re:Show HN: 100kb – an opinionated feed of personal blogs by danhilltech on Thursday August 22, 2024 @08:39PM (#41325407)

Not quite. It's first a search engine, so I index latest HN posts and a few other sources. There's then an algorithm that classifies new feeds as either "good" (personal blog, little ads, first person writing etc) or not. Then yes, it's those RSS feeds ranked chronologically. But the point is, it's not a curated or set list of blogs.

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Re:Show HN: 100kb – an opinionated feed of personal blogs by DevX101 on Thursday August 22, 2024 @10:12AM (#41320512)

Curated projects like this identifying real human writings will be more important as AI slop takes over the internet.

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Re:Show HN: 100kb – an opinionated feed of personal blogs by DamonHD on Thursday August 22, 2024 @09:07AM (#41319829)

Obvs I approve this message since I (currently) feature on the first page!

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Re:Show HN: 100kb – an opinionated feed of personal blogs by danhilltech on Thursday August 22, 2024 @09:20AM (#41319953)

Thanks! I actually read your note on `use Cache-Control max-age HTTP headers for a "do not poll again before" time: savings of 10x or much more are likely if the feed server is set up well: an unnecessary feed poll avoided entirely is the cheapest kind!` and realized I don't currently, so adding that tonight.

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Re:Show HN: 100kb – an opinionated feed of personal blogs by DamonHD on Thursday August 22, 2024 @09:22AM (#41319981)

Hurrah! Thanks!

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Re:Show HN: 100kb – an opinionated feed of personal blogs by breck on Thursday August 22, 2024 @09:19AM (#41319941)

Can you make "Total Feeds: 17162" clickable so we can see the list?

Can you make it so when I click a domain it shows me all the posts from that domain?

Can you put the github link on the site as well? (I only saw it in your Show HN post)

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Re:Show HN: 100kb – an opinionated feed of personal blogs by danhilltech on Thursday August 22, 2024 @09:21AM (#41319965)

Great ideas, will do!

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Re:Show HN: 100kb – an opinionated feed of personal blogs by breck on Thursday August 22, 2024 @09:25AM (#41320006)

Thanks!

Also any relation to author of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pattern_on_the_Stone ? (one of my all time favorite books)

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