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Ask HN: What's on your RSS reader?

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Post by Guyag »

I'm interested to hear what you think is good/important enough to warrant following, admittedly with the aim of expanding my list. I'd also be interested to hear what reader you use.

Here's my list (most of these are easily searchable so I won't link them):

Comics: Cube Drone, Dilbert daily, Garfield daily, Invisible Bread, lolnein, Poorly Drawn Lines, The Oatmeal, xkcd

Misc: xkcd what if?, John A De Goes' blog [1], Still Drinking [2], Krebs on Security

I use a Telegram bot [3] as a 'reader' of sorts (no affiliation).

[1] http://degoes.net/

[2] https://www.stilldrinking.org/

[3] https://telegram.me/TheFeedReaderBot

Re: Ask HN: What's on your RSS reader?

#2

Post by JoshTriplett »

I don't actually use RSS for news, because all the regularly updating sites I read fall into four categories:

- News sites like HN or LWN, where I find the RSS experience quite suboptimal compared to participating directly.

- Blogs, which I read entirely via Planet aggregators: Planet Debian, Planet GNOME, Kernel Planet, and Planet Mozilla.

- Comics, serialized stories, and other things where I want to read every page and remember what I haven't read. For these, I use Comic Rocket (https://www.comic-rocket.com/), which a friend and I wrote years ago. Every one of the comics you mentioned is tracked there, along with XKCD's What If.

(That's in addition to mailing lists, which includes announcement lists, and Twitter, which also covers things like This Week In Rust.)

Re: Ask HN: What's on your RSS reader?

#3

Post by akkartik »

JoshTriplett wrote: post #2

I don't actually use RSS for news, because all the regularly updating sites I read fall into four categories: - News sites like HN or LWN, where I find the RSS experience quite suboptimal compared to participating directly. - Blogs, which I read entirely via Planet aggregators: Planet Debian, Planet GNOME, Kernel Planet, and Planet Mozilla. - Comics, serialized stories, and other things where I want to read every pag…

The trouble with your approach (mixing everything into time-sorted feeds) is that you are more likely to see high-volume posters. You're more likely to miss out on low-velocity but high-quality sources. I've written indirectly about this before: http://akkartik.name/post/2009-05-19-21-30-46-soc. But that was a long time ago. These days I don't care about relevance or personalization. I just make sure that I diversify my personal reading regardless of what the world around me is putting into its brain: http://akkartik.name/feeds.xml. There's almost 250 sources in there, but it generates 2-3 posts a day that I don't ever want to miss.

A recent thread with tons of recommendations: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11563516.

Re: Ask HN: What's on your RSS reader?

#4

Post by younata »

I wrote (and maintain) my own rss reader for iOS - https://github.com/younata/RSSClient/, here's a trimmed down version what I follow:

News:

- Electrek - https://electrek.co (Basically Tesla news, but ostensibly EV news)

- Hackaday

- MacRumors

Swift/iOS Dev:

- Natasha The Robot - http://natashatherobot.com

- Swift Weekly Brief - https://swiftweekly.github.io

- This Week in Swift - http://swiftnews.curated.co

- NSHipster

Misc:

- xkcd What If

- Wait but Why

- Mr. Money Mustache

There's also other stuff not really worth mentioning - serialized stories (mostly just feeds for a few reddit user's posts), my blog, some comics, etc.

Re: Ask HN: What's on your RSS reader?

#5

Post by confounded »

Interestingly (on reflection, not surprisingly) since going back to RSS, I've been reading a lot more from sites with expert content, but ugly typography.

- Math Babe (https://mathbabe.org)

        + Superb musings and coverage on the societal
          impact of everything becoming a prediction
          problem (occasional applied technical 
          discussion)
- Tech Dirt (https://www.techdirt.com/)

        + Lawyers Rule Everything Around Me
- Light Blue Touchpaper (https://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org)

        + Thoughts on infosec from Cambridge Computer 
          Laboratory (influential on policy, excellent
          coverage of conferences)
- Muckrock (https://www.muckrock.com/)

        + News from the FOIA wars

Re: Ask HN: What's on your RSS reader?

#8

Post by EvgeniyZh »

http://cacm.acm.org/ - Communications of the ACM

https://www.hpcwire.com/ - HPCwire: Global News and Information on High Performance Computing

http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/ - Lambda the Ultimate

https://openai.com/blog/ - OpenAI Blog

http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/ - Shtetl-Optimized. The Blog of Scott Aaronson

http://feedworld.net/toc/ - Theory of Computing Blog Aggregator

http://deepmind-ai.blogspot.com/ - DeepMind AI

https://www.technologyreview.com - MIT Technology review

And a bit of fun:

http://phdcomics.com/comics.php - PhD comics

http://www.smbc-comics.com/ - Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal comics

https://what-if.xkcd.com/ - What If?

Re: Ask HN: What's on your RSS reader?

#9

Post by allenleee »

Some tech blogs:

Benedict Evans: http://ben-evans.com/benedictevans/

Hunter Walk: https://hunterwalk.com/

Coding Horrow: https://blog.codinghorror.com/

Feld Thoughts: http://www.feld.com/

Mattermark: https://mattermark.com/

BEN THOMPSON: https://stratechery.com/

The Angel VC: http://christophjanz.blogspot.com/

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