Wasn’t sure where to ask this but figured people here host their own rss platforms. I just started with miniflux. Between that and reeder it makes RSS nice and easy.
My issue is that until the 3rd party Reddit nonsense, i let Reddit monopolize my information gathering. To the point I don’t know where else to get info from. Like which websites I can trust that aren’t just bad forms of marketing. Forums and things like that. I don’t know any of them because I spent all my time with Reddit.
Anyone have ideas or suggestions of good rss feeds for people who are interested in tech and programming and gaming and whatnot
Edit: thanks for all the great suggestions. I’m building up a nice RSS stream.
Slashdot - https://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdotMain
HighScalability - https://feeds.feedburner.com/HighScalability
Hackernews - https://news.ycombinator.com/rss
The verge - https://theverge.com/rss/index.xml
Bonus tip: You can also filter Hacker News posts on the amount of upvotes/points. For example, this URL will return only the newest posts with a minimum of 200 points. This way, you only get some of the best/most important posts in your feed.
https://hnrss.org/newest?points=200If you don’t want to manually define a particular point threshold,
https://hnrss.org/bestworks pretty great.Just wondering if there’s something similar for Lobster.
This is what I use. Works pretty great.
Just wondering if there’s something similar for Lobster.
You good man
I wish RSS had filters by default
Now that’s a „today I learned“ moment for me, improving my feed a lot. Thanks fellow Fedditor!
So far I simply used a bunch of expressions to filter out certain topics I am not interested in, but didn’t really have a good approach to filter by quality.
I would add Ars Technica to that list and call it a day.
For programming I follow YouTube channels of the conferences relevant for my tech stack (YouTube natively supports RSS). They are generally 1 hour talks but it’s a great way to stay up to date.
thanks for suggesting Ars Technica, I added it to my feed.
Thanks for the suggestions! Hackernews didn’t seem to work. But the rest are good. And I added ars.
Yeah I can’t get HNRSS to work either.
I did get it working. I am using this feed url https://hnrss.org/newest?points=200 so it grabs all the newest posts with at least 200 points
Yeah I did the same. The best feed didn’t work. My reader kept removing the ? which is needed.
Oh that’s weird. My site url is https://news.ycombinator.com/newest while my feed url is https://hnrss.org/newest?points=200
I use miniflux and reeder5
Yeah really not sure what’s going on. It’s ok. Newest?points=350 seems to match up quite well with best.
https://www.youneedfeeds.com/starter-packs is a fairly solid resource for some good, category-based feed groups.
For tech I have Ars, Phoronix, TomsHardware, Slashdot. I feel that covers a lot and keeps me up to date.
Does Slashdot still have value? I read Slashdot way back in the '90s and early '00s.
It does I think, not as much as it used to but every now and then I find good articles on there I wouldn’t have found elsewhere. For me, it’s worth a quick glance.
Tomshardware. Any chance of knowing how to get a feed for only https://www.tomshardware.com/best-picks
I don’t want all the random news just the higher quality articles.
I have a collection of about 60 ish rss feeds on my NextCloud instance. Some that come to mind:
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Hackaday-It’s great but might take over your feed.
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https://n-o-d-e.net/rss/rss.xml node is awesome. Lots of great designs and tech related content.
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https://charity.wtf/ has a good feed. Lots of great software developer and project management articles.
I have a lot more but I’m on my phone.
Hackaday-It’s great but might take over your feed.
And? lol
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You can also get YouTube channels on RSS
I use this + seal android app to get lots of youtube only podcasts quickly into my podcast app of choice
It depends what your interests are. I have 364 feeds in my reader (granted, a lot of these are from Reddit [1], I wouldn’t be surprised if they remove this way to consume posts someday…), on various topics ranging from IT/tech stuff, news, DIY, history/art blogs, youtube channels [2], bandcamp album releases [3]…
When I find an interesting article by just randomly browsing/following links, I often check if the website/blog has an RSS feed and just add it to my feed reader. If it’s too noisy, I end up adding filters to discard (or auto-mark as read) bad articles based on title/content/tags.
Random recommendation: https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/ (https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/about/the-solar-website)
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