I follow too many people, so I built https://feeds.carmo.io with summaries. You might enjoy the selection there and upgrade to the original feeds as needed.
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.
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.
[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:
You can actually just paste the link to a youtube channel in your RSS reader and it should work. At least for me it works with NetNewsWire. For example, you should be able to copy and paste this directly into your RSS reader: https://www.youtube.com/@freecodecamp
Many RSS aggregators automatically convert Youtube links to RSS. You can also do it manually: https://chuck.is/yt-rss/
I have removed Youtube apps from all mobile devices and only watch the creators whose content I'm interested in through RSS, without notifications and distractions. It's a much more pleasant experience, definitely recommend.
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.
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.
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.
Amazed this is being discussed! I’ve only consumed hacker news via rss for maybe 15 years and I guess I didn’t know there was another way to read it at this point :)
Shamelessly, I have a low volume rss feed for my static-HTML articles, but I'm also using rss for the embedded mastodon feed on my website.
https://brynet.ca/
Shameless plug, follow mine -
https://rxjourneyserver.pythonanywhere.com/rss_feed/rss/
https://www.rxjourney.net/
I follow too many people, so I built https://feeds.carmo.io with summaries. You might enjoy the selection there and upgrade to the original feeds as needed.
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/
98% of everything you follow has RSS. It’s not like a quaint, unlisted Vermont antique shop.
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.
Some I like:
https://www.writesoftwarewell.com/ - very good software posts, mostly around Ruby on Rails.
https://crankysec.com/ - Cybersecurity rants mostly, fun to read.
https://www.wheresyoured.at/ - Ed Zitron's writings. Good counterpoints to all the AI hype these days.
These come up often on HN but I'll call them out anyway:
https://jvns.ca/ - Julia Evans, good technical content all around.
https://xeiaso.net/ - Xe Iaso, good technical content all around once again
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.
HackerNews - hnrss.org
SwissMiss https://feeds2.feedburner.com/Swissmiss
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/
Here’s the feeds I follow: https://www.unindented.org/follows/
(It’s my OPML file translated to HTML via Hugo.)
As to why, they generally post original and insightful stuff on topics I care about, like web dev, security, Ruby, Rust, etc.
A few webcomics, some entertaining YouTube channels, and HN. It used to be a lot more, but nowadays, that's it.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1i4eR_TNyy2YV17soWyJnbQeH2_r...
HN Personal Websites[1] by @susam was popular on Hacker News a few days back.
1. https://hnpwd.github.io
Various webcomics, Youtube channels and Github releases for several projects.
[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:
So the feed URL in this case is: <https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCi8C7TN...>.> Youtube channels
I didn't know you could follow youtube channels via RSS! Where do I find the feed link, given a youtube channel?
If you view the HTML source of a YouTube video page, there is a LINK tag that contains the feed URL. I have shared an example here: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46772655#46775759>.
You can actually just paste the link to a youtube channel in your RSS reader and it should work. At least for me it works with NetNewsWire. For example, you should be able to copy and paste this directly into your RSS reader: https://www.youtube.com/@freecodecamp
Many RSS aggregators automatically convert Youtube links to RSS. You can also do it manually: https://chuck.is/yt-rss/
I have removed Youtube apps from all mobile devices and only watch the creators whose content I'm interested in through RSS, without notifications and distractions. It's a much more pleasant experience, definitely recommend.
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 -
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.
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.
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
techmeme and memeorandum are 2 great firehouse rss feeds that I appreciate.
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.
i think thunderbird has an rss reader, though i've not tried it
anthes.is, my favorite Unix blog
Jeff Geerling & XKCD are the two that stand out in my mind.
theonion.com
Lots of webcomics
NPR,BBC,CBC
Local news
...and THIS site!
> ...and THIS site!
Via RSS?
https://news.ycombinator.com/rss
Amazed this is being discussed! I’ve only consumed hacker news via rss for maybe 15 years and I guess I didn’t know there was another way to read it at this point :)