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If you want to tr", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "RSS Feed Best Practices (2022)"}, {"id": 754913570, "item_id": 47182098, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47182098", "by": "DigitalFracture", "date": "2026-02-27", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "Feedly wants \u00a38/month and sends you algorithmic recommendations", "excerpt": "I drive trucks for a living and build web apps in my spare time. RSS Ninja started because I was frustrated \u2014 Feedbro is dying, Feedly wants \u00a38/month and sends you algorithmic recommendations, and Google killed their reader years ago. So I built my own. It's a Firefox/Chrome/Edge extension that does two things cleanly: RSS feeds and webcomics (Comic Ninja is bundled in). No algorithm, no ads, no tracking, no \"recomme", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "I'm a truck driver who built a privacy-first RSS and webcomic reader"}, {"id": 751687218, "item_id": 46980451, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46980451", "by": "havaloc", "date": "2026-02-11", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "the Feedly iOS client just slowly degraded and got buggy.", "excerpt": "I was on Google Reader, then Feedly for a long time, until the Feedly iOS client just slowly degraded and got buggy. I'm not opposed to paying for a good RSS set. I finally switched to NetNewsWire as the front end and FreshRSS on the backend, and could not be happier. NNW being free is just the icing on the cake, it's really great, and FreshRSS was also really easy to install. What I like about FreshRSS is that it's ", "context": "", "use_case": "RSS reading", "switched_from": "Google Reader", "story": "NetNewsWire Turns 23"}, {"id": 734600754, "item_id": 45912547, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45912547", "by": "asim", "date": "2025-11-13", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "I've tried stuff like Feedly but I found over time it was causing me to scroll a ton.", "excerpt": "Hey all I'm working on an app called Mu (Micro shortened). Its an all in one app for mail, chat, news and video. The mail part coming soon and the chat being with AI (a model called Fanar from the state of Qatar). It stems from my pain with social and productivity apps. I'm finding a number of problems and decided to try build something for myself to help. 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I built a rss feed reader for myself. First version had all the functionalities, but it was missing something and I did not find myself using it very often. Then I started comparing it to how I use feedly, and started understanding the subtle issues with this reader. Once I fixed the edge cases, this tool became much better with a lot of better functionalities. The same will happen with vibe coded ap", "context": "", "use_case": "RSS reading", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Opus 5.5 made a fully featured Figma clone in 3 hours / 8 prompts"}, {"id": 799168992, "item_id": 49948062, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49948062", "by": "tjansen", "date": "2026-10-03", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "Even widespread ones, like Feedly.", "excerpt": "As the author of an RSS reader, I would agree with most of that article, except the HTML / Styling section. It is full of misleading information. 1. You can use CSS, but expect that most readers will completely ignore it. Even widespread ones, like Feedly. Those that do support it will only offer a small subset, like text styles. No layout styles (positioning or flex-layouts), often not even colors. If you want to tr", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "RSS Feed Best Practices (2022)"}, {"id": 787302450, "item_id": 49206403, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49206403", "by": "Caldwellone", "date": "2026-08-06", "version": null, "stance": "compare", "quote": "I created a RSS database from scratch that IMO, rivals even Feedlys.", "excerpt": "I love reading.. My fav online source was brutalist.report\u2026 It's just headlines.. really simple. My only gripe, it pulls a crap-ton of articles I do not care about. Easily half of what I am scrolling past is pure garbage. And my Google News blocklist is no better, easily runing 2000+ sources deep. So a few years ago, I had ChatGPT write me a genius little JavaScript bookmarklet for IOS that hid headlines by keyword. ", "context": "", "use_case": "RSS", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Muuted \u2013 I built a feed that knows when to shut up"}, {"id": 779977074, "item_id": 48748567, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48748567", "by": "stasomatic", "date": "2026-07-01", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I've tried many, Reeder, Feedly etc, for many years.", "excerpt": "I don't know about \"best\", but I've tried many, Reeder, Feedly etc, for many years. These are not OSS though, but Reeder was my favorite of the bunch. I settled on running NewsBlur on an OVH instance, it's open source and so are the apps. https://github.com/samuelclay/newsblur On the desktop I use the default web interface, it runs and looks nice. A bit too many batteries included, but you can turn things off. It's D", "context": "", "use_case": "RSS reading", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: HackerNows \u2013 Native iOS HN Client"}, {"id": 759227216, "item_id": 47451701, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47451701", "by": "robin_reala", "date": "2026-03-20", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Feedly is the obvious choice I guess", "excerpt": "Feedly is the obvious choice I guess: https://feedly.com/news-reader", "context": "", "use_case": "reading RSS feeds", "switched_from": "", "story": "'Your Frustration Is the Product'"}, {"id": 758282144, "item_id": 47392634, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47392634", "by": "decimalenough", "date": "2026-03-15", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Sure, I use Feedly myself", "excerpt": "Sure, I use Feedly myself, but RSS is increasingly marginalized. I use to follow blogs, but it's not usable for mainstream media, Reddit, HN, etc etc.", "context": "", "use_case": "RSS reader", "switched_from": "", "story": "The 49MB Web Page"}, {"id": 756979936, "item_id": 47311246, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47311246", "by": "marojejian", "date": "2026-03-09", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I use Feedly, and set lots of mute filters to screen out topics.", "excerpt": "RSS feeds are a great basis from which to build this sort of logic. It's vastly harder if you don't has an open feed to start with. e.g. I use Feedly, and set lots of mute filters to screen out topics.", "context": "", "use_case": "RSS reading with filters", "switched_from": "", "story": "The Death of Social Media Is the Renaissance of RSS"}, {"id": 754913570, "item_id": 47182098, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47182098", "by": "DigitalFracture", "date": "2026-02-27", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "Feedly wants \u00a38/month and sends you algorithmic recommendations", "excerpt": "I drive trucks for a living and build web apps in my spare time. RSS Ninja started because I was frustrated \u2014 Feedbro is dying, Feedly wants \u00a38/month and sends you algorithmic recommendations, and Google killed their reader years ago. So I built my own. It's a Firefox/Chrome/Edge extension that does two things cleanly: RSS feeds and webcomics (Comic Ninja is bundled in). No algorithm, no ads, no tracking, no \"recomme", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "I'm a truck driver who built a privacy-first RSS and webcomic reader"}, {"id": 751687218, "item_id": 46980451, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46980451", "by": "havaloc", "date": "2026-02-11", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "the Feedly iOS client just slowly degraded and got buggy.", "excerpt": "I was on Google Reader, then Feedly for a long time, until the Feedly iOS client just slowly degraded and got buggy. I'm not opposed to paying for a good RSS set. I finally switched to NetNewsWire as the front end and FreshRSS on the backend, and could not be happier. NNW being free is just the icing on the cake, it's really great, and FreshRSS was also really easy to install. What I like about FreshRSS is that it's ", "context": "", "use_case": "RSS reading", "switched_from": "Google Reader", "story": "NetNewsWire Turns 23"}, {"id": 748544496, "item_id": 46784031, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46784031", "by": "xve", "date": "2026-01-27", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I have been using feedly to slowly build up a good news \"diet\"", "excerpt": "I have been using feedly to slowly build up a good news \"diet\" using sources from all over the world. Anytime, I come across an article on hn from a good news source I look into that website and add it to my feed. I look for criteria like independent journalism, representation of perspectives I don't already have in my news portfolio and general quality. I do think of my news as an investment portfolio, you want a go", "context": "", "use_case": "news reader", "switched_from": "", "story": "TikTok users can't upload anti-ICE videos. The company blames tech issues"}, {"id": 744764768, "item_id": 46547798, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46547798", "by": "techknight", "date": "2026-01-08", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I usually read HN through Feedly", "excerpt": "I usually read HN through Feedly, which tries to grab an appropriate image for the target of the headline link. For your site, it returned a product logo with a very, very different name: https://notionportals.com/og-image.png", "context": "", "use_case": "Reading Hacker News", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: We built a permissions layer for Notion"}, {"id": 734600754, "item_id": 45912547, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45912547", "by": "asim", "date": "2025-11-13", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "I've tried stuff like Feedly but I found over time it was causing me to scroll a ton.", "excerpt": "Hey all I'm working on an app called Mu (Micro shortened). Its an all in one app for mail, chat, news and video. The mail part coming soon and the chat being with AI (a model called Fanar from the state of Qatar). It stems from my pain with social and productivity apps. I'm finding a number of problems and decided to try build something for myself to help. But I wanted to see if it interested anyone else or if I coul", "context": "", "use_case": "news reading", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Feedback for a New Social App"}]}