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The question I always have is how to keep a permanent archive of entries for long-running publication histories. You don't want the feed to grow without bounds, so paging (by time period or sliding windows of X entries) seems useful. 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These largely achieve that for me. You'll find a smattering of political posts in them, but that's an inevitable side effect of living in abnormal political times. https://scrollprize.org/ - The Vesuvius Challenge: Using high intensity X-ray scans and computation to attempt to retrieve lost scrolls from Pompei; real uplifting Sci-Fi stuff! Possibly the ", "context": "avoiding doom-scrolling", "use_case": "RSS reader on Android", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Who do you follow via RSS feed?"}, {"id": 741507808, "item_id": 46344238, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46344238", "by": "vee-kay", "date": "2025-12-21", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "they all have dark theme / night mode", "excerpt": "You didn't bother to search. Feeder, FeedDeck, NewsBlur, Fluent Reader, Twine, Capy Reader, Reeder, Read You, Neo Feed, Readrop are all open-source RSS/feed readers for mobile (iOS, Android, or both) , and they all have dark theme / night mode. https://alternativeto.net/software/feedly/?license=opensource&platform=android https://duckduckgo.com/?q=android+ios+open-source+rss+reader+dark+mode&t=brave&ia=web", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: HN Wrapped 2025 - an LLM reviews your year on HN"}]}], "caveats": [], "who": [{"by": "dcminter", "context": "avoiding doom-scrolling", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46780230", "date": "2026-01-27"}], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["rss reading", "rss reading on android", "rss reader on android"], "compared": [], "makers": [], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48811841", "title": "Hate \"The Algorithm?\" RSS Is One of the Tools You've Been Looking For", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47939149", "title": "Pop-Up RSS", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47480507", "title": "PC Gamer Recommends RSS Readers in a 37MB Article That Just Keeps Downloading", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46772655", "title": "Ask HN: Who do you follow via RSS feed?", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46336104", "title": "Show HN: HN Wrapped 2025 - an LLM reviews your year on HN", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {}, "2025-12": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-01": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-02": {}, "2026-03": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-04": {}, "2026-05": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-06": {}, "2026-07": {"neutral": 1}, "2026-08": {}, "2026-09": {}, "2026-10": {}}, "versions": [], "version_unnamed": 0, "family_ref": null, "runs_on": null, "lines": [], "quotes": [{"id": 781003584, "item_id": 48812724, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48812724", "by": "hydrogen7800", "date": "2026-07-06", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I use Feeder", "excerpt": "I use Feeder, but still end up doom scrolling reddit way too to often. Discovery is the hard part for me, and I don't spend much time trying to find good content. For me, this is the \"personal responsibility\" side of the coin and requires effort. I suspect this is common, and it's what algorithmic social media exploits.", "context": "", "use_case": "RSS reading", "switched_from": "", "story": "Hate \"The Algorithm?\" RSS Is One of the Tools You've Been Looking For"}, {"id": 767795872, "item_id": 47987242, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47987242", "by": "michaelsmanley", "date": "2026-05-02", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "one of my favorite Mac apps ever, Feeder", "excerpt": "This reminds me of one of my favorite Mac apps ever, Feeder: https://reinventedsoftware.com/feeder/ Literally, the only app I miss after leaving the Apple ecosystem. The question I always have is how to keep a permanent archive of entries for long-running publication histories. You don't want the feed to grow without bounds, so paging (by time period or sliding windows of X entries) seems useful. 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These largely achieve that for me. You'll find a smattering of political posts in them, but that's an inevitable side effect of living in abnormal political times. https://scrollprize.org/ - The Vesuvius Challenge: Using high intensity X-ray scans and computation to attempt to retrieve lost scrolls from Pompei; real uplifting Sci-Fi stuff! Possibly the ", "context": "avoiding doom-scrolling", "use_case": "RSS reader on Android", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Who do you follow via RSS feed?"}, {"id": 741507808, "item_id": 46344238, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46344238", "by": "vee-kay", "date": "2025-12-21", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "they all have dark theme / night mode", "excerpt": "You didn't bother to search. Feeder, FeedDeck, NewsBlur, Fluent Reader, Twine, Capy Reader, Reeder, Read You, Neo Feed, Readrop are all open-source RSS/feed readers for mobile (iOS, Android, or both) , and they all have dark theme / night mode. https://alternativeto.net/software/feedly/?license=opensource&platform=android https://duckduckgo.com/?q=android+ios+open-source+rss+reader+dark+mode&t=brave&ia=web", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: HN Wrapped 2025 - an LLM reviews your year on HN"}]}