Ask HN: Is RSS Still Alive? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Is RSS Still Alive?

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Post by militanz » Thu, Dec 18, 2025, 5:20 PM UTC

johnofthesea wrote: post #4

> So, I looked for them as well but few websites have them. This is a bit surprising for me. I've just randomly checked news: BBC, Guardian, Norwegian NRK - all had RSS. But I'm not checking news that much so not sure about others. Mastodon and BlueSky are also providing RSS. I guess walled garden ones like Instagram/Twitter don't? My RSS reader is subscribed to: - one Youtube channel - several blogs (most blogs do h…

My target websites are oddly specific: biotechnology news maybe it is only that particular case

Re: Ask HN: Is RSS Still Alive?

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Post by JohnFen » Thu, Dec 18, 2025, 5:36 PM UTC

militanz wrote: post #10

JohnFen wrote: post #9

It's very much alive. It's the primary way I keep up with sites on the web. One thing to keep in mind is that a lot of websites have RSS feeds but don't advertise them or offer an obvious link, but are discoverable by looking at the site's page source. > Now, with the advent of Agentic AI they seem to be an old fashioned way that is needed anymore. One of the main reasons I use RSS is to assemble a news feed that I r…

Can you provide some resources to extract RSS feeds?

I'm not sure exactly what you're asking for. I run tt-rss on my own server. It gets the RSS feeds from sources I've configured, then performs categorization of the individual RSS entries into topics that I've defined, and provides RSS feeds of its own that aggregate those entries. I read the aggregated feeds my server generates.

Does this help?

Re: Ask HN: Is RSS Still Alive?

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Post by domysee » Thu, Dec 18, 2025, 8:20 PM UTC

> So, I looked for them as well but few websites have them.

Many sites have rss, it‘s just not advertised as much as it was some years ago. I built a feed finder tool that goes far beyond rss autodiscover, it might be useful: https://lighthouseapp.io/tools/feed-finder

And an article how it works: https://lighthouseapp.io/blog/deep-dive-finding-rss-feeds

Re: Ask HN: Is RSS Still Alive?

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Post by treetalker » Thu, Dec 18, 2025, 11:27 PM UTC

JohnFen wrote: post #12

militanz wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you provide some resources to extract RSS feeds?

I'm not sure exactly what you're asking for. I run tt-rss on my own server. It gets the RSS feeds from sources I've configured, then performs categorization of the individual RSS entries into topics that I've defined, and provides RSS feeds of its own that aggregate those entries. I read the aggregated feeds my server generates. Does this help?

tt-rss looks awesome, thanks for the rec!

It may be the push I need to start teaching myself how to set up and run a server and how to use Docker.