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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 ", "context": "self-hoster", "use_case": "self-hosted RSS sync", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Who do you follow via RSS feed?"}, {"id": 751687217, "item_id": 46980451, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46980451", "by": "havaloc", "date": "2026-02-11", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "What I like about FreshRSS is that it's PHP and will install on any old shared hosting plan and uses Sqlite as the database, super easy.", "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 backend", "switched_from": "Feedly", "story": "NetNewsWire Turns 23"}]}, {"text": " It suits self-hosters and homelab users", "cites": [{"id": 737590609, "item_id": 46099413, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46099413", "by": "shepherdjerred", "date": "2025-11-30", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "freshrss RSS reader", "excerpt": "I use mine for a ton: - Home Assistant - GitHub backups - Self-hosting personal projects - File sync - golink service - freshrss RSS reader - Media server - Alternative frontends for reddit/youtube - GitHub Actions runners - Coder instance - Game servers (Minecraft, Factorio) Admittedly, this is more of a project for fun than for the end result. You could achieve all of the above by paying for services or doing somet", "context": "homelab NAS user", "use_case": "RSS reading", "switched_from": "", "story": "Don't throw away your old PC\u2013it makes a better NAS than anything you can buy"}, {"id": 748400945, "item_id": 46775059, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46775059", "by": "ajdude", "date": "2026-01-26", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I'm self hosting freshrss, so my subscriptions can be synced between my phone and computer.", "excerpt": "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 ", "context": "self-hoster", "use_case": "self-hosted RSS sync", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Who do you follow via RSS feed?"}, {"id": 767547120, "item_id": 47971695, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47971695", "by": "Hard_Space", "date": "2026-04-30", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I can use freshrss.mydomain.com", "excerpt": "I use subdomains on an OVH VPS, since I want to access the services outside the network, so I can use freshrss.mydomain.com. But anything that can rationalize port number sprawl is welcome.", "context": "", "use_case": "self-hosted RSS reader", "switched_from": "", "story": "I Got Sick of Remembering Port Numbers"}]}, {"text": " who feed articles into tools like Wallabag and KOReader.", "cites": [{"id": 788889136, "item_id": 49305571, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49305571", "by": "tmjwid", "date": "2026-08-14", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "FreshRSS (share to Wallabag enabled) + Wallabag + KOReader (on kobo)", "excerpt": "I'll throw my 2 cents into the mix of \"what works for me\" posts. FreshRSS (share to Wallabag enabled) + Wallabag + KOReader (on kobo). I've been toying with the idea of trying to add Wallabag sync into Crosspoint, as I have an x4 but it's pretty much just sat doing nothing. I have a Mudita Kompact though, which I use with the Wallabag app and my best mate Alan from RHVoice to read out articles for me. 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What I like about FreshRSS is that it's ", "context": "", "use_case": "RSS backend", "switched_from": "Feedly", "story": "NetNewsWire Turns 23"}, {"id": 773254673, "item_id": 48328417, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48328417", "by": "rpdillon", "date": "2026-05-29", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I run my FreshRSS instance off of sqlite", "excerpt": "Sqlite is good for lots of stuff, but you're probably focusing your days on high-scale webapps that want sharding with networked DBs. That's one domain, and an interesting one, but there are lots of others. I'm a big fan of re-evaluating prior \"best practices\" in light of technology changes, especially in ways that improve simplicity. 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All high-content feeds also have a maximum number of items, if it goes over they're marked as read.", "context": "", "use_case": "RSS feed reading", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What are the best engineering blogs with real-world depth?"}]}, {"label": "Device sync", "summary": "It works as a backend that syncs subscriptions between phone and computer through clients like NetNewsWire.", "quotes": [{"id": 748400945, "item_id": 46775059, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46775059", "by": "ajdude", "date": "2026-01-26", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I'm self hosting freshrss, so my subscriptions can be synced between my phone and computer.", "excerpt": "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 ", "context": "self-hoster", "use_case": "self-hosted RSS sync", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Who do you follow via RSS feed?"}, {"id": 751687217, "item_id": 46980451, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46980451", "by": "havaloc", "date": "2026-02-11", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "What I like about FreshRSS is that it's PHP and will install on any old shared hosting plan and uses Sqlite as the database, super easy.", "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 backend", "switched_from": "Feedly", "story": "NetNewsWire Turns 23"}]}, {"label": "Stable deployment", "summary": "One user reports it never broke while running under Docker Compose.", "quotes": [{"id": 803206288, "item_id": 50200393, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50200393", "by": "ossusermivami", "date": "2026-10-22", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I used to run freshrss on nixos", "excerpt": "I used to run freshrss on nixos and moved to hosted debian with docker-compose and neveer had a breakage either while using docker compose. says a lot about freshrss not about because running on nixos is being more \"stable\"", "context": "", "use_case": "RSS reader", "switched_from": "", "story": "NixOS is making me less afraid"}]}, {"label": "Free", "summary": "It is listed among free software a commenter calls excellent.", "quotes": [{"id": 787493195, "item_id": 49218324, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49218324", "by": "ragequittah", "date": "2026-08-07", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Most of the stuff I use is free and excellent.", "excerpt": "Most of the stuff I use is free and excellent. Linux, Firefox, libreoffice, xcp-ng, bottles, steam, playnite, opnsense, docker, dockhand, immich, freshrss, obsidian, tailscale, calibre, caddy, docker, pi-hole, signal, audiobookshelf I could probably keep going for a long while. 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I built it myself. Muuted.com. Inoreader is solid too. It\u2019s what I used before I built Muuted. If you'd rather self-host, FreshRSS and Miniflux are the usual picks.", "context": "", "use_case": "self-hosted RSS reader", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What's a good RSS feed reader?"}, {"id": 788889136, "item_id": 49305571, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49305571", "by": "tmjwid", "date": "2026-08-14", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "FreshRSS (share to Wallabag enabled) + Wallabag + KOReader (on kobo)", "excerpt": "I'll throw my 2 cents into the mix of \"what works for me\" posts. FreshRSS (share to Wallabag enabled) + Wallabag + KOReader (on kobo). I've been toying with the idea of trying to add Wallabag sync into Crosspoint, as I have an x4 but it's pretty much just sat doing nothing. I have a Mudita Kompact though, which I use with the Wallabag app and my best mate Alan from RHVoice to read out articles for me. I remember bare", "context": "", "use_case": "RSS reading", "switched_from": "", "story": "I turned my RSS feeds into an e-ink newspaper to stop reading on my phone"}, {"id": 787493195, "item_id": 49218324, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49218324", "by": "ragequittah", "date": "2026-08-07", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Most of the stuff I use is free and excellent.", "excerpt": "Most of the stuff I use is free and excellent. Linux, Firefox, libreoffice, xcp-ng, bottles, steam, playnite, opnsense, docker, dockhand, immich, freshrss, obsidian, tailscale, calibre, caddy, docker, pi-hole, signal, audiobookshelf I could probably keep going for a long while. I'm very glad most good software creators I've come across do not have your mindset.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Improving GPT-5.6 Sol in ChatGPT\u2014and expanding access for free users"}, {"id": 773254673, "item_id": 48328417, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48328417", "by": "rpdillon", "date": "2026-05-29", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I run my FreshRSS instance off of sqlite", "excerpt": "Sqlite is good for lots of stuff, but you're probably focusing your days on high-scale webapps that want sharding with networked DBs. That's one domain, and an interesting one, but there are lots of others. I'm a big fan of re-evaluating prior \"best practices\" in light of technology changes, especially in ways that improve simplicity. Running my family's social media site off a single sqlite DB on a VPS is great. ~15", "context": "", "use_case": "RSS reader", "switched_from": "", "story": "SQLite is all you need for durable workflows"}, {"id": 768016177, "item_id": 48001011, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48001011", "by": "Beijinger", "date": "2026-05-03", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "But I only host a few WP and FreshRSS.", "excerpt": "After a terrible, possibly criminal experience with a hoster, I ended up with: https://www.interserver.net/ I am very happy. The speed is insane. I always thought and was told that WP is the reason for a slow website. No, it was my host. I pay around 10 USD per month but I think the smaller plans starts lower. For what it's worth, I am very happy with them. But I only host a few WP and FreshRSS. I think they support ", "context": "hosts a few WordPress sites", "use_case": "RSS reader", "switched_from": "", "story": "Breaking Up with WordPress After Two Decades"}, {"id": 767547120, "item_id": 47971695, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47971695", "by": "Hard_Space", "date": "2026-04-30", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I can use freshrss.mydomain.com", "excerpt": "I use subdomains on an OVH VPS, since I want to access the services outside the network, so I can use freshrss.mydomain.com. But anything that can rationalize port number sprawl is welcome.", "context": "", "use_case": "self-hosted RSS reader", "switched_from": "", "story": "I Got Sick of Remembering Port Numbers"}, {"id": 760975632, "item_id": 47560977, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47560977", "by": "DavideNL", "date": "2026-03-28", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "(i use it with FreshRSS.)", "excerpt": "What i did is, jailbreak [1] my Kindle Oasis, and install KOreader [2]. This gives you full access to upload whatever ebook you want (SSH, WebDav, Syncthing, ...) and it can fetch RSS feeds (i use it with FreshRSS.) PS. The (very old) Kindle Oasis is still the best device there is to read on in my opion. Which is crazy, since it was released from 2016-2019... It has 2 phyisical buttons to turn the page, and an ambien", "context": "", "use_case": "RSS feeds", "switched_from": "", "story": "I turned my Kindle into my own personal newspaper"}, {"id": 751687217, "item_id": 46980451, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46980451", "by": "havaloc", "date": "2026-02-11", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "What I like about FreshRSS is that it's PHP and will install on any old shared hosting plan and uses Sqlite as the database, super easy.", "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 backend", "switched_from": "Feedly", "story": "NetNewsWire Turns 23"}, {"id": 748400945, "item_id": 46775059, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46775059", "by": "ajdude", "date": "2026-01-26", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I'm self hosting freshrss, so my subscriptions can be synced between my phone and computer.", "excerpt": "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 ", "context": "self-hoster", "use_case": "self-hosted RSS sync", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Who do you follow via RSS feed?"}, {"id": 745727616, "item_id": 46607976, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46607976", "by": "unsnap_biceps", "date": "2026-01-13", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use https://www.freshrss.org and listen to a fairly large collection of podcasts, which are RSS feeds.", "excerpt": "I use https://www.freshrss.org and listen to a fairly large collection of podcasts, which are RSS feeds.", "context": "", "use_case": "RSS and podcast feeds", "switched_from": "", "story": null}, {"id": 742845664, "item_id": 46427854, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46427854", "by": "theshrike79", "date": "2025-12-29", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "generate a new feed for FreshRSS to consume", "excerpt": "I just build feed hydrators that get the feeds, filter them and generate a new feed for FreshRSS to consume. For example my HN feed only surfaces articles with enough votes + comments and a few other variables. All high-content feeds also have a maximum number of items, if it goes over they're marked as read.", "context": "", "use_case": "RSS feed reading", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What are the best engineering blogs with real-world depth?"}, {"id": 737590609, "item_id": 46099413, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46099413", "by": "shepherdjerred", "date": "2025-11-30", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "freshrss RSS reader", "excerpt": "I use mine for a ton: - Home Assistant - GitHub backups - Self-hosting personal projects - File sync - golink service - freshrss RSS reader - Media server - Alternative frontends for reddit/youtube - GitHub Actions runners - Coder instance - Game servers (Minecraft, Factorio) Admittedly, this is more of a project for fun than for the end result. You could achieve all of the above by paying for services or doing somet", "context": "homelab NAS user", "use_case": "RSS reading", "switched_from": "", "story": "Don't throw away your old PC\u2013it makes a better NAS than anything you can buy"}]}