Ask HN: What's on your RSS reader? • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by [deleted] » Sun, Jul 31, 2016, 5:28 AM UTC

michaeldwan wrote: post #19

Which RSS reader do you all use? RSS fell by the wayside for me after Google Reader was shutdown. I thought HN+Reddit+Twitter+Medium would replace it but I still find myself missing updates from several wonderful sites that don't update regularly.

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

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Post by benwr » Sun, Jul 31, 2016, 5:39 AM UTC

- Slate Star Codex (http://slatestarcodex.com/)

     + Really good analysis of complicated and interesting
       issues in science, medicine, politics, rationality,
       ethics, and community dynamics.

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

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Post by dochtman » Sun, Jul 31, 2016, 5:40 AM UTC

Bootvis wrote: post #25

michaeldwan wrote: post #19

Which RSS reader do you all use? RSS fell by the wayside for me after Google Reader was shutdown. I thought HN+Reddit+Twitter+Medium would replace it but I still find myself missing updates from several wonderful sites that don't update regularly.

I like NewsBlur, has a good web client and a nice app for iOS (phone and pad). Edit: maybe also for Android but I simply don't know.

It is, indeed, also on Android. I use it there constantly, works great. Back in the Google Reader demise days, I tried pretty much everything that was available, and NewsBlur was clearly the best. I've happily paid for it ever since. The founder and his staff are responsive to issues on Twitter, too.

As for what I read:

- Blogs category: 116 "blogs", which is to say irregularly (sometimes very rarely) updated feeds with longer-form content (includes some podcasts).

- Miscellaneous category:

  - Charles Arthur's daily link list

  - Daring Fireball

  - LWN.net

  - Marco Arment

  - Matt Mullenweg

  - Planet Gentoo

  - Planet Mozilla

  - The Codeless Code

  - Trivium

- Comics

  - CommitStrip

  - Dilbert

  - Geek&Poke

  - Not Invented Here

  - Oglaf

  - Power Nap

  - Questionable Content

  - Strong Female Protagonist

  - wulffmorgenthaler

  - xkcd

The full list, if you're interested, is here:

https://dirkjan.ochtman.nl/files/NewsBlur-djc-2016-07-31.xml

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

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Post by dejv » Sun, Jul 31, 2016, 6:16 AM UTC

I am using BazQux Reader (https://bazqux.com/). The name is awful and it is also paid, but it is very fast, stable and very similar to Google Reader.

Bonus point: it is written in Haskell

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

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Post by srikar » Sun, Jul 31, 2016, 6:20 AM UTC

I use Feed Wrangler (https://feedwrangler.net) as my RSS-service of choice. I use Reeder on my Mac and on iOS (http://reederapp.com) to get at those feeds.

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

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Post by zetaben » Sun, Jul 31, 2016, 6:40 AM UTC

I'm using Newsblur (http://newsblur.com YC S12), mostly through its Android application which works great offline in the subway.

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

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Post by atmosx » Sun, Jul 31, 2016, 7:01 AM UTC

EvgeniyZh wrote: post #8

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/ - Dee…

Thanks for this list, the MIT review looks great.

For ACM, I'm a bit confused, for the basic subscription they offer 1 publication (like a magazine) or you have to pick up a topic? They offer dozens of publications.

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

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Post by icebraining » Sun, Jul 31, 2016, 7:05 AM UTC

vollmond wrote: post #17

Here's my pastebin: http://pastebin.com/X6mMEMD1 I removed the "IRL" category of people I know personally. Lots of these are defunct. "Comics" is the only category I keep up with on a daily basis -- the rest is much more sporadic, just based on what catches my eye when I'm skimming the unread list. I have around 6000 unread items at the moment. After Google Reader closed down, I switched to Feedly for a few months, t…

Yeah, Tiny Tiny RSS is pretty good. It's reliable, it never chokes on a feed and it has a decent Android app.

I've been using it since before Google Reader shut down, and I'm quite happy with it.

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

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Post by captn3m0 » Sun, Jul 31, 2016, 7:12 AM UTC

I use Slack, which has RSS-support. I have a channel, which is just for RSS feeds and some other occasional alerts. Works out pretty nicely.

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

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Post by Yossi_Frenkel » Sun, Jul 31, 2016, 7:25 AM UTC

Are Technica, Mac Rumors, Macworld, MacStories,

MIT News, MIT Technology Review,

What If? (by Randall Munroe), Symmetry Magazine, Bret Victor’s "Worry Dream"