Ask HN: Who do you follow via RSS feed?

15 hours ago

Hello there!

I just set up TinyTinyRSS (https://tt-rss.org/) at home and I'm looking into interesting things to read as well as people/website publishing interesting stuff.

This, among the other things, to reduce the daily (doom)scrolling and avoid the recommendation algorithms by social media.

So: who or what do you follow via RSS feed, and why?

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sien  13 hours ago

I use the fantastic Inoreader that is better than Google Reader was.

I follow things that post maybe once or twice a week or once a month. For things with new information every day, like Hacker News, I check the website.

A few of the things that I follow that may be a bit different for people are :

Arnold Kling - a PhD economist who worked in technology and is genuinely different.

https://arnoldkling.substack.com/

Noah Smith - a PhD economist who writes about economics and the world

https://www.noahpinion.blog/

Roger Pielke Jnr - a guy with a PhD who writes about climate and energy and was excommunicated by the climate priesthood.

https://rogerpielkejr.substack.com/

Andrew Sullivan - a conservative, gay, HIV positive, Catholic writer who campaigned for gay marriage.

https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/

browningstreet  14 hours ago

98% of everything you follow has RSS. It’s not like a quaint, unlisted Vermont antique shop.

  • abnercoimbre  14 hours ago

    This includes YouTube channels, major newspapers and podcasts!

    P.S. Even HN is something you should personally control. It's very useful whenever moderators flag a submission you might've liked.

Mixtape  14 hours ago

In no particular order: 404 Media, Ars Technica, BleepingComputer, The Register, The Verge, and Tomshardware.

These usually sit in the corner of my screen through the day. Some are better than others for work purposes. The Verge could probably go, and 404 is a bit more socially-focused than the rest. In particular though, having rapid updates from BleepingComputer and El Reg is a great way for me to learn about new vulns, issues that might affect my users, etc.

migmaldo  14 hours ago

In no particular order of preference:

- Julia Evans - Daniel Stenberg - Geohot - Cloudflare and Netflix’s respective tech blogs - TorrentFreak - LWN.net - and some others in spanish -

tylerhillery  14 hours ago

In no particular order:

- Anton Zhiyanov

- Register Spill by Thorsten Ball

- Phil Eaton

- Mitchell Hashimoto

- Gunnar Morling

- Jack Vanlightly

- Charity Majors

- Bryan Cantrill

- Marc Brooker

- NULL BITMAP By Justin Jaffray

Another tip is you can subscribe to YouTube Channels and Podcasts via RSS as well. I wrote a little bit about my setup to help reduce doom scrolling: https://tylerhillery.com/blog/how-i-consume-the-internet/

shantara  14 hours ago

Various webcomics, Youtube channels and Github releases for several projects.

  • susam  9 hours ago

    [EDIT: This was meant to be a reply to another comment in this thread but I posted it under the top-level comment by mistake. I am leaving this comment intact anyway, in case someone finds it useful.]

    The web browsers don't highlight the feed URL information embedded in the HTML anymore, quite unfortunately. But if you go to a YouTube video, say, <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kaIXkImCAM> and then view or inspect the HTML source, you can find the LINK tag for the feed:

      <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS" href="https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCi8C7TNs2ohrc6hnRQ5Sn2w">

    So the feed URL in this case is: <https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCi8C7TN...>.

  • znpy  14 hours ago

    > Youtube channels

    I didn't know you could follow youtube channels via RSS! Where do I find the feed link, given a youtube channel?

ajdude  10 hours ago

I use netnewswire as my client and I'm self hosting freshrss, so my subscriptions can be synced between my phone and computer.

All of my YouTube and nebula channels I follow via RSS and I think that's kind of giving me the most bang for my buck. I can just get focused on the videos that I want to subscribe to without having to even go to YouTube and get pulled into the algorithm, as well as a few sub Reddits, hacker news front page (it's how I found this post), Lobste.rs, 404 Media, some local blogs (my food co-op, biking website, other community things), some web comics, one news group, and a couple forums.

I've also contemplated Podcasts, but I still have a dedicated player for that.

navigate8310  14 hours ago

Crooked Timber

Matt Lakeman

Global China Pulse

Sinocism

Bartosz Ciechanowski

brr

Construction Physics

Jonathan Nolan's substack

On the Seams

Quanta Magazine

Matt Levine - Bloomberg Opinion Columnist

Aeon | a world of ideas

Classic Film and TV Café

Experimental History

The Marginalian

The Prism - Gurvinder

The Technium

Westenberg.

Chameth.com

Activity in the release-notes tag

All Things Distributed

An Untitled Blog

Charles Hugh Smith's Substack

Chips and Cheese

computers are bad

Dwarkesh Podcast

Francis Stokes :: Githublog

iRi

Rest of World - Latest Stories

Shtetl-Optimized

Signal Blog

マリウス

blackfawn  9 hours ago

This site, xkcd, liliputing, some various forums, etc. but the big problem I've started having w/ RSS is when sites set up Cloudflare and the RSS feed ends up behind the Cloudflare validation prompt - I've even emailed some sites but none have bothered to fix or exempt RSS.

hahahahhaah  9 hours ago

No one. It psychologically makes me feel guilty if I can't keep up. I'd weirdly rather have an email and ignore or read it than pull rss and not read for ages. Funny enough the only time I used rss was when I had that cool outlook integration that made them seem like emails.