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Show HN: Social news aggregator, RSS feed tracker, and publishing platform

Posted by Dotnaught on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @08:04PM
from the show-hn dept.

https://rsscal.com/

I wrote two prior RSS feed aggregator apps a few years ago, based on Electron, for my own personal use (https://github.com/Dotnaught/rssputin) and earlier this year I decided to see whether the concept would work as a hosted app.Going with a multiuser system seemed to point toward more social features and the project has evolved into a combination of news aggregation site, personal news...

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Re:Douglas Hofstadter: Analogy as the Core of Cognition [video] on Thursday September 10, 2026 @04:08PM (#49649530)
See George Lakoff/Mark Johnson, Metaphors We Live By (1980):

https://george-lakoff.com/books/metaphors-we-live-by/

Took a course with Lakoff as an undergrad and it was compelling.

Re:Mistral Patent for "Code implemented tool calls" on Monday August 10, 2026 @04:56PM (#49249621)
What are the chances Mistral used AI for its patented technology, thereby potentially invaliding the claim?
Re:Kinney Drugs pulls back AI phone assistant after hundreds of custom... on Monday August 10, 2026 @04:53PM (#49249557)
>Apple offers online, telephone, and of course in-person support for hardware and software

The last time I waited on hold for Apple developer support, I got to enjoy two whole hours of free hold music. So they offer human support, just not very enthusiastically.

Re:The web server deployment model breaks at hobby scale on Friday August 07, 2026 @09:36AM (#49210190)
Perhaps the article's title should be, "The web has become a hostile, largely automated environment and naive hobbyists may find it difficult to coexist with professional scrapers, scammers, grifters, bots, hucksters, and cybercriminals."
Re:How to setup a local coding agent on macOS on Friday June 12, 2026 @04:14PM (#48508951)
In case anyone is looking for a sandbox to go with oMLX and Pi: https://github.com/Dotnaught/pi-sandbox
Re:The agent harness belongs outside the sandbox on Saturday May 02, 2026 @08:40PM (#47992045)
So, client?
Re:Meta told to pay $375M for misleading users over child safety on Wednesday March 25, 2026 @09:53AM (#47517376)
>we've had a legal principle that platforms are relatively shielded from liability for what their users do.

...when they've made a good faith effort to address harms.

Re:Cloudflare CEO on the Italy Fines on Friday January 09, 2026 @12:17PM (#46556216)
By "shadowy cabal of European media elites," is Prince referring to elected Italian officials? What have they asked Cloudflare to ban?
Re:A tech-law measurement and analysis of event listeners for wiretapping on Thursday September 11, 2025 @02:56PM (#45214910)
Is there a way, perhaps via extension or user script, to override third-party keystroke event listeners?
Re:Charlie Kirk shot at event in Utah on Wednesday September 10, 2025 @07:50PM (#45205780)
It has not been conclusively established that COVID came from a lab: https://www.who.int/news/item/27-06-2025-who-scientific-advi...
Re:Chrome extension that replaces occurrences of 'the cloud' with 'my ... on Sunday September 07, 2025 @10:57AM (#45158735)
I wrote a similar generic text replacer, EditoriaLies:

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/editorialies/pdokni...

https://github.com/Dotnaught/EditoriaLies

Re:Anthropic reverses privacy stance, will train on Claude chats on Friday August 29, 2025 @09:53AM (#45064174)
AI-generated summaries should not be upvoted.
Re:Website Is for Humans on Wednesday August 13, 2025 @11:54AM (#44890105)
https://localghost.dev/robots.txt

User-Agent: * Allow: /

Re:Death by AI on Saturday July 19, 2025 @11:03PM (#44621622)
You can append -ai to your searches to omit AI Overview replies. It's not enough but it's something.
Re:Two guys hated using Comcast, so they built their own fiber ISP on Monday July 14, 2025 @03:41PM (#44564423)
In most of San Francisco and parts of the East Bay, there's MonkeyBrains: https://www.monkeybrains.net/
Re:Plain – a web framework for building products with Python on Saturday March 29, 2025 @10:38AM (#43515922)
"Plain was forked inside of PullApprove — a revenue-generating SaaS with Fortune 500 customers."

So...an effort to commercialize open source?

Re:Osgint – OSINT tool to find information about GitHub user on Monday March 24, 2025 @09:48AM (#43461037)
Seems like its more trouble than just appending .patch to a commit.

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