Re:Ask HN: Where do you go for cutting-edge dev news and info?
by petercooper on Thursday June 05, 2025 @01:53PM
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This is a sort of alternative hack, but I run the Hacker News newest items through a filter that turns all the developer related ones into an RSS file, then I subscribe to that. Gives me a few hundred titles a day to quickly skim through but it works for me.
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Re:Ask HN: Where do you go for cutting-edge dev news and info?
by nbbaier on Friday June 06, 2025 @02:09AM
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This is neat, do you have the code posted somewhere?
Re:Ask HN: Where do you go for cutting-edge dev news and info?
by petercooper on Friday June 06, 2025 @10:10AM
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Not at this stage, but it's relatively simple. You can see the feed in question at https://heap2.com/hn-newest.rss
The basic process is fetching https://hnrss.org/newest then piping each item through gpt-4.1-mini with just the URL and title (I think fetching each actual page is overkill and a bit greedy) and asking it to figure out if something is likely to be development related. If it's a confident yes, that item then gets into the final feed. It cuts the firehose down quite a bit just with that simple approach.