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Re: Ask HN: How many websites, apps or notifications do you look at to “catch-up”?

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Post by Parka3458 »

foogazi wrote: post #46
Parka3458 wrote: post #44

Telegram, to find the stories the mainstream media avoids until it's no longer avoidable. Basically gives me the news months in advance, without all the bs. Remember when all the mainstream media wrote it was safe and effective, made you immune, and prevented spread? The real experts were blocked and banned from most places but Telegram, so that's where they went. And only lately has the mainstream media started to w…

> Remember when they wrote Russia was losing? In what Telegram channel is Russia not losing?

That's the one topic you chose to pick from my list? Well, my point was simply that mainstream media, from more or less day one of the war, have written why Russia is close to losing the war. Yet they're still in Ukraine. We rarely, if ever, hear how Ukraine is losing the war, yet the premise is more or less the same.

Re: Ask HN: How many websites, apps or notifications do you look at to “catch-up”?

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Post by rcarmo »

What you are looking for is called RSS. It is a magical technology of days long gone by, heralded as lost after Ganon^WGoogle killed Reader but which has lived on unnoticed.

Seriously now, I read HN via RSS. I used to get some Twitter stuff via RSS, but now just moved to Mastodon, tagged everyone I care about in a list, and trivially generated an RSS feed out of that.

I have _long_ been looking for a way to summarize trending topics (and ChatGPT ain’t it, since it gets confused with a few hundred items), but right now I just check my feeds once a day (or so) and rely on iOS notification summaries (three a day) to keep tabs on personal chatter.

If you’re overwhelmed by notifications and multiple sites, you’re paying attention to too much noise. Just cut down and move on.

Re: Ask HN: How many websites, apps or notifications do you look at to “catch-up”?

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Post by rcarmo »

Darmody wrote: post #64
LonelyWolfe wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Out of curiosity... Does anyone use the rss reader in MS Outlook? I know MS is supposed to pack a lot of features to catch as much audience as possible, but are there enough people still using it to this day?

RSS in your email client is a bad idea IMO. I used thunderbird like that a lot but everytime I needed to read or send an email for something productive I'd see that there's a new post somewhere and I'd check it.

It was actually a pretty decent thing if you set up a dedicated account (I used to maintain rss2mail and https://github.com/rcarmo/rss2imap).

I still have archived posts in MIME format, complete with images, etc. Amazing for archival purposes.

The tricky thing is actually dealing with title-only feeds - these days apps like Reeder will fetch a readable version of posts automatically, and I never got around to implementing that in earnest.

Re: Ask HN: How many websites, apps or notifications do you look at to “catch-up”?

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Post by rcarmo »

ROTMetro wrote: post #81
acidburnNSA wrote: post #28

I love RSS for this. I go to one RSS aggregator that I self-host (trivial, via FreshRSS [1]) that has subscriptions to things like: Fun: comics, pictures, APOD, some hobby reddit threads (fun fact: reddit presents pretty much anything including search queries as RSS if you append .rss) Journals: professional journals in my field Local: Neighborhood blogs, local news, utility company blog, local police crime notes, we…

I spent a couple of months trying to find podcasts, but they all seem to consume way to much time for value provided. Can you recommend any high value podcasts that don't just ramble about this weeks business press releases? I don't even care what fields, I used to love just the general consumption of what is going on in the world that the (now) dead internet used to provide.

Oxide and Friends is BY FAR the best tech podcast you could ever listen to. Look it up.

Re: Ask HN: How many websites, apps or notifications do you look at to “catch-up”?

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Post by swah »

Brajeshwar wrote: post #72
zorr wrote: post #11

No notifications aside from Signal, some Matrix channels of my OSS project and my work Teams. All the rest including WhatsApp has notifications disabled. Phone is on DnD most of the time. I occasionally check HN Frontpage,a local news website and a few selected subreddits and that's about it.

You will like this. ;-) I made it to re-direct to people, some of whom, gets angry that I don't do unscheduled Voice calls. https://phone.wtf

I have no idea why phones don't have a "subtle then loud" default mode ? If I'm here, lighting the screen is enough. If I'm at the kitchen, ring, ok... I had this a decade ago on some modded Android and never again..

Re: Ask HN: How many websites, apps or notifications do you look at to “catch-up”?

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Post by mzfr »

I had the same issue so I started using RSS reader. I really liked yarr(https://github.com/mzfr/yarr) so I started maintain a clone(with extra features) of the original.

I browse HN/lobste.rs, twitter lists, dev blogs, newspapers, everything via RSS feeds.

Re: Ask HN: How many websites, apps or notifications do you look at to “catch-up”?

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Post by ttul »

bilekas wrote: post #67
ttul wrote: post #35

Okay, this is embarrassing but I feel the need to contribute as a catharsis. LEISURE TIME 1. WSJ: the OpEd section is neocon trash, but the journalistic content is well sourced, objective, and interesting. 2. NYTimes: probably the highest quality journalism in the English-speaking world. 3. Economist: slower news cycle, more deeply analytical and intellectual than WSJ or NYT. 4. Bloomberg: nice in-depth stories about…

> I’m working on automating every manual process in my job as CEO, even though it’s painful. The investment will be worthwhile. Not to be funny but aren't you supposed to delegate what you don't need to be spending time doing as CEO?

Yeah that’s the classic assumption but the reality is Human Resources are expensive and as a tech CEO you really can automate a lot of stuff that perhaps a non-tech CEO would have to delegate to a person. It’s a hidden advantage (curse?) I suppose.

Re: Ask HN: How many websites, apps or notifications do you look at to “catch-up”?

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Post by 1123581321 »

lddemi wrote: post #16
prepend wrote: post #13

For me it’s: -HN many times a day (probably too much to be healthy as it’s my default “I’ve got 60 seconds to spare”) -Reddit used to be many times a day but since they turned off compact mode on mobile it’s maybe once a day using old.Reddit.com on my phone and really not like how I have to zoom to read stuff -gmail as workflow for personal chores and work GitHub/GitLab, maybe 5 times a day -discord once or twice a d…

Definitely recommend using Apollo with a little tuning for Reddit on mobile. Clean and clear of all their growth experiments

The big problem with Apollo is it's so good that it makes me spend way more time on reddit. I've installed and removed it many times. I happily paid for Ultra the day he started offering it because I appreciate the work that went into making it that smooth and useful.

Re: Ask HN: How many websites, apps or notifications do you look at to “catch-up”?

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Post by barakplasma »

sogen wrote: post #61
barakplasma wrote: post #22

I cram everything that has an RSS feed into https://kindle4rss.com/ where I can read the feeds daily as an ebook on my kindle (including HN Best). WhatsApp / Telegram cover my "real-time" needs. Most important for me is to have digital wellbeing limits configured for social media. Recently stumbled upon https://github.com/piqoni/matcha which is a Go RSS reader with a GPT-3 option for summarizing certain RSS feeds.

How does the Kindle to RSS service work?

it's actually RSS to kindle epub, where each feed/folder becomes it's own chapter, and a cron job bundles it up into a daily auto-delivery.
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