The View from RSS • Hacker News Board

Re: The View from RSS

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Post by crabmusket » Sat, Mar 07, 2026, 8:58 PM UTC

6510 wrote: post #39

crabmusket wrote: post #21

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Here's an example https://help.abc.net.au/hc/en-us/articles/6147104938383-Why-...

Uh, they lie about everything? https://www.abc.net.au/news/feed/51120/rss.xml I haven't fully examined it but looking at the xml I see it was last build in 2026 and a headline about Women's Asian Cup 2026. abc.net.au/news/2026-03-05/matildas-iran-asian-cup-quick-hits-hayley-raso-mary-fowler/106413886

Oh that's wild. I guess the system is just on autopilot and nobody knew how to actually act on their policy change.

Re: The View from RSS

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Post by extra88 » Sun, Mar 08, 2026, 4:42 AM UTC

wink wrote: post #48

sixtyj wrote: post #11

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RSS’ death is real - 15 years ago, almost every news site had a RSS feed, some had several ones. Today? RSS feed is rare. So if you want to make news feed from news sites, you have to use parsing their html code, and ofc everybody has its own structure. JS powered sites are painful ones.

I don't know, I also only use RSS (with the exception of Reddit I think) so I would not even notice a website that a) provides content I want to get notified about and not actively visit for a reason and b) has no feed.

Reddit also has RSS feeds, add `.rss` to urls.

Re: The View from RSS

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Post by dwedge » Mon, Mar 09, 2026, 5:48 PM UTC

abetusk wrote: post #14

jurakovic wrote: post #9

I love RSS but I didn't find good enough online reader that can be customized to my liking, so I built my own: https://jurakovic.github.io/dev-links/news/ I have many more ideas, but I don't have that much free time to implement all of it (even with Claude Code). But it serves me very well for now

Here's mine: https://mechaelephant.com/feed I do feel like RSS feeds are one of the easier things to do DIY, custom to people's specific taste of how to list data of this sort. All the 'off the shelf' RSS feeds that I see feel contrived, cluttered and bloated.

I really like this, did you release the code? Also, I like your micro grant idea