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by rdmuser 262 days ago
I've always been curious what the front page of hn would look like if you filtered out all the tech posts. I'd love a rss feed for that. Maybe make it top weekly or monthly instead since that would cull a large % of posts?

One site I've been really enjoying for filtering through feeds including all hn submissions is https://scour.ing/about. You input interests and it filters rss based on that. You can even follow your profile using an external rss reader. It's inspired by sites like bear blog and seems to be trying to do everything right re treating users well. I'm a long time rss user and rarely find new rss projects interesting enough to use but scour instantly hooked me because it works and is trying to do everything right by its users.
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emschwartz 262 days ago
Developer of Scour here. Really glad to hear you're enjoying it!

Comments like these are very motivating, so thank you!

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rdmuser 262 days ago
Tbh I've been working on a big feedback list since early this year after finding scour through /r/rss. This year got busy etc so I haven't sent it in yet but I'd like to soon once I polish it up.

Being able to apply custom interests to all feeds globally has been a wonderful way to run into new stuff online. I was genuinely surprised how great of addition scour was to my rss setup since I'm already a longterm experienced user with a well curated follow list of a several hundred feeds.

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emschwartz 262 days ago
Hearing this makes my day :)

Feedback is extremely welcome! Feel free to email ideas to me (in any state of polish) or post them on https://feedback.scour.ing. Looking forward to hearing your suggestions!

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ksymph 262 days ago
Hey, was checking out the site and stumbled across a small bug: head to https://scour.ing/browse/feeds/popular while logged out, press the + button on a feed, and it breaks the browser back button. Happens on FF and Chrome.
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emschwartz 262 days ago
Thanks for the heads up! I'll get that fixed
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emschwartz 262 days ago
TBH, _I_ was also genuinely surprised when I made the initial MVP of Scour, pointed it at HN Newest, and right away was finding great posts with only 1-3 points.

I thought a lot of good stuff was probably getting buried in the fire hose, but I had no idea how well it would actually work at finding those hidden gems for me.

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h4ch1 261 days ago
Just created an account, added 3 of my interests pertaining to what I am working on right now; instantly found 3-4 articles that gave me actual, actionable insight on what I wanted to do.

Great work!

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emschwartz 261 days ago
That’s excellent to hear!

Let me know if you have any other feedback as you use it more!

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linhan_dot_dev 262 days ago
This is a really interesting idea.

I actually have a toy project that does the complete opposite - I filter Hacker News to keep only the technical content, then use AI to generate summaries (which get translated into my native language since I'm not a native English speaker).

My friends and I have been using this system to consume a lot more content with significantly less reading overhead. Eventually, I turned the generated content into a maintained online website.

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