Ask HN: What's on your RSS reader?

- 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.)

I use Brief on FireFox with Live Bookmarks. Let's me control frequency of downloads, navigate using keyboard, etc.

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

        + Superb musings and coverage on the societal
          impact of everything becoming a prediction
          problem (occasional applied technical 
          discussion)

        + Lawyers Rule Everything Around Me

        + Thoughts on infosec from Cambridge Computer 
          Laboratory (influential on policy, excellent
          coverage of conferences)

        + News from the FOIA wars

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, then installed Tiny Tiny RSS on my shared hosting -- never have to worry about the service shutting down or modifying its features without my permission anymore.

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?

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.

Some interesting feeds we've created using Feedity are listed at https://feedity.com/featured.aspx

shameless plug: Using our tool at https://feedity.com, you can create custom feeds for any webpage (including Twitter and Facebook).

Otherwise, though, less so a specific feed and more a general idea what to put in there: YouTube channels. There's a few channels which I follow, but I don't particularly fancy visiting youtube.com for it, and neither do I particularly fancy having a Google-account.

But YouTube offers RSS feeds for pretty much every channel, which solves both problems. Also has the added advantage of all the features that your RSS reader offers, particularly being able to filter out any video series that you don't care about has been incredibly useful to me.

If you want to migrate your subscriptions to RSS, there's also a button in YouTube to export all of them to an OPML-file, which you can then import into your RSS reader (if it supports import). Assuming Google hasn't changed the design of YouTube since last time visited, this button should be at the bottom of the "Manage Subscriptions"-page.

As for RSS reader recommendation, on desktop I use QuiteRSS [1], mainly because it's the most feature-rich RSS reader that I've found so far.

On Android, SpaRSS [2] is my preferred reader, with my main-criteria being that it supports at least filtering and OPML-import, is preferably FOSS, and plays nicely with my YouTube-usage (I use it together with NewPipe [3]).

[0]: https://hacks.mozilla.org/

[1]: https://quiterss.org/

[2]: https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdid=net.etuldan.spar...

[3]: https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdid=org.schabi.newpi...

Bonus point: it is written in Haskell

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

Among the things I subscribe too are about a 100 webcomics.

Decided to share all my RSS links here: http://feedshare.net/theknarf/

A lot of different stuff on that list, but mostly programming, web development and comics.

It is basically one voracious reader (Robert Cottrell) who trawls the internet to select 5-6 pieces worth reading every day. It's a good combo of news, economics, science, and just random, beautiful writing – I really value non-tech-related writing it introduces into my feed/life. (There is a subscription fee to see more 2-3 of today's articles, but it's like $30 a year).

I also recommend subscribing to a filtered feed of HackerNews if you feel like it's taking up too much of your time but you don't want to give it up entirely :). I follow http://hnrss.org/newest?points=100 so I only see articles that get at least 100 points.

shameless plug: I also created a weekly newsletter for frontend development - for lazy/busy people like me that don't want to sift through the millions of blogs/articles/aggregators. @frontendweekly1

I follow:

- Newsites: HN, Dzone, Voxxed, ARS Technica, Highscalability...

- Webcomics (Xkcd, Commitstrip, Dilbert...)

- Youtube channels: https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id={channel...

- Most of these: https://github.com/kilimchoi/engineering-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/

http://ios-goodies.tumblr.com/rss - iOS digest

http://feeds.feedburner.com/SidebarFeed - design digest

http://feeds.newscientist.com/health - some science news

http://feeds.newscientist.com/life - more science news

- webcomics (xkcd, alberto montt)

- music (boards of canada wiki, music for programming.net)

- java stuff (adam bien, onjava.com, planet clojure, grails.io, the server side, the cognicast)

- job boards (wfh.io, functional jobs, stack overflow careers, clojurework.com)

- coding stuff (atomic spin, adam bard, ycombinator, /r/clojure, the changelog, infoq)

- mixed bag (ars technica, some reddits, waxy.org, thisiscolosal.com, etc.)

It's not perfect but I cannot find a closer approximation to the Kindle newsstand experience on a computer screen.

I am an All Digital Access subscriber of the Times and consider my actions justified under the Terms of Service, for whatever that is worth.

I use the Newsbeuter RSS reader.

http://pastebin.com/hc6yby4h

It is.... ummmm.....well rounded?

MIT News, MIT Technology Review,

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

Ubuntu Insights.

That's a link to the various sites, blogs, updates that I subscribe to, Phronix and Ars are both a bit noisey but other than them the rest I take good care to keep up with.

I personally think it's fantastic that RSS has made such a come back (some would say it never actually went away), it' such a simple, useful tool that's easy to integrate with just about anything.

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Another interesting discussion I enjoy having is finding out how people read / digest / discover feeds:

tldr; I use Feedly to manage my rss subscriptions and keep all my devices in sync, but instead of using the Feedly's own client, I use an app called Reeder as the client / reader itself.

I can see myself dropping back to a single app / service, which would likely be Feedly but for me Reeder is just a lot cleaner and faster, having said that I could be a bit stuck in my comfort zone with it so I'm open to change if it ever causes me an issue (which it hasn't).

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I use a combo of two tools:

Feedly - https://feedly.com

RSS feed subscription management.

Features:

- Keyword alerts

- Browser plugins to subscribe to (current) url

- Notation and highlighting support (a bit like Evernote)

- Search and filtering across large numbers of feeds / content

- IFTTT, Zapier, Buffer and Hootsuite integration

- Built in save / share functionality (that I only use when I'm on the website)

- Backup feeds to Dropbox

- Very fast, regardless of the fact that I'm in Australia - which often impacts the performance of apps / sites that tend to be hosted on AWS in the US as the latency is so high.

- Article de-duplication is currently being developed I believe, so I'm looking forward to that!

- Easy manual import, export and backup (no vendor lock-in is important to me)

- Public sharing of your Feedly feeds (we're getting very meta here!)

2. Reeder - http://reederapp.com

A (really) beautiful and fast iOS / macOS client.

- The client apps aren't cheap but damn they're good quality, I much prefer them over the standard Feedly apps

- Obviously supports Feedly as a backend but there are many other source services you can use along side each other

- I save articles using Reeder's clip to Evernote functionality... a lot

- Sensible default keyboard shortcuts (or at least for me they felt natural YMMV of course)

- Good customisable 'share with' options

- Looks pleasant to me

- Easy manual import an export just like Feedly

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- Now can someone come up with a good bookmarking addon / workflow for me? :)