A HN feed with the article's content (opens in new tab)

(nirmalpatel.com)

31 pointsaupajo15y ago12 comments

I've been using this for months now, and I was wondering how many of you know about it. It's the only way to read HN through your RSS reader. Many thanks to Nirmal Patel.

12 comments

rokhayakebe15y ago

It would be nice if this showed only the first paragraph + a link for more.

rcfox15y ago

Maybe as a separate feed... In my opinion, having this as the only option defeats the purpose of RSS.

petercooper15y ago

+1 for copyright violation. I'm no giant fan of copyrights, but reading content in a format actually produced by the author is the least you can do instead of mangling it up.

nirmal15y ago

I posted this awhile back when I was hosting it under my blog domain (http://hacketal.com). The discussion with the prior post can be found at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=542334

pierrefar15y ago

Great work, thanks! I updated my mobile-friendly (optimized for thumb navigation) HN app:

"Summary" feed: http://mhm.gd/hn/ , the official HN RSS feed.

"Full" feed: http://mhm.gd/hn/f , this new feed with the full contents.

PidGin12815y ago

We're calling these feeds, but are they really just compiled summary pages?

I'm viewing from my mobile, and had trouble loading the link in the article, and the above comments' links appear to be pages, not feeds.

Would streams be more accurate? It doesn't seem to imply RSS as much [to me at least].

[also, do any of the mentioned RSS aggregates include comments?]

PidGin12815y ago

Appendation: The feed link on the site's page didn't work, because of the unusual feed:// URI [ http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Feed_URI_scheme... ]. Naturally my phone choked on this "resource".

Originally: feed://readablefeeds.appspot.com/readability/feed?url=http%3A//news.ycombinator.com/rss

Fixed: http://readablefeeds.appspot.com/readability/feed?url=http%3...

ronnier15y ago

This was one of the ideas that lead me to make a mobile version of HN. It uses the same concept but provides a normal HN interface with a link that extracts the article text. http://toadjaw.com/hn if you wish to see or use it.

aupajoOP15y ago

I've been using this for a few months now. Many thanks to Nirmal Patel.

iamdave15y ago

I wished more RSS feeds did this by default, thank you.

ugh15y ago

What? Scrape the websites they are linking to and putting their content in the feed? Sounds quite dangerous to me, maybe that’s the reason :)

iamdave15y ago

Well, I mean sites that publish their own feeds. I'd wish they'd include more than just the title in th feed. NY Times is notorious for just giving you a link after one sentence of text.

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rokhayakebe15y ago

It would be nice if this showed only the first paragraph + a link for more.

rcfox15y ago

Maybe as a separate feed... In my opinion, having this as the only option defeats the purpose of RSS.

petercooper15y ago

+1 for copyright violation. I'm no giant fan of copyrights, but reading content in a format actually produced by the author is the least you can do instead of mangling it up.

nirmal15y ago

I posted this awhile back when I was hosting it under my blog domain (http://hacketal.com). The discussion with the prior post can be found at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=542334

pierrefar15y ago

Great work, thanks! I updated my mobile-friendly (optimized for thumb navigation) HN app:

"Summary" feed: http://mhm.gd/hn/ , the official HN RSS feed.

"Full" feed: http://mhm.gd/hn/f , this new feed with the full contents.

PidGin12815y ago

We're calling these feeds, but are they really just compiled summary pages?

I'm viewing from my mobile, and had trouble loading the link in the article, and the above comments' links appear to be pages, not feeds.

Would streams be more accurate? It doesn't seem to imply RSS as much [to me at least].

[also, do any of the mentioned RSS aggregates include comments?]

PidGin12815y ago

Originally: feed://readablefeeds.appspot.com/readability/feed?url=http%3A//news.ycombinator.com/rss

Fixed: http://readablefeeds.appspot.com/readability/feed?url=http%3...

ronnier15y ago

aupajoOP15y ago

I've been using this for a few months now. Many thanks to Nirmal Patel.

iamdave15y ago

I wished more RSS feeds did this by default, thank you.

ugh15y ago

What? Scrape the websites they are linking to and putting their content in the feed? Sounds quite dangerous to me, maybe that’s the reason :)

iamdave15y ago

Well, I mean sites that publish their own feeds. I'd wish they'd include more than just the title in th feed. NY Times is notorious for just giving you a link after one sentence of text.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse