MonitoRSS VS hnrss

I love RSS. I take a bit of an unconventional approach and use Discord as my RSS reader. I run a self hosted instance of MonitoRSS (https://github.com/synzen/MonitoRSS). I have a server with just me and my bot instance and I tend to group my feeds into categories and channels (effectively creating a tab system per subscription or group of subscriptions). I have Discord installed on my laptop, phone, and desktop so this means that I can easily look at all my subscribed feeds wherever it's convenient for me. When I'm not set to "do not disturb", I even get push notifications on my devices when content is posted to feeds that go to channels I haven't muted. I think the only real downside of the setup is some days I am very busy and don't check the server that often, so I'll come back to a large backlog of things to read and I'll end up missing or under-appreciating some gems.

i have been using monitoRSS and its done well tbh

That bot is used in nearly 70 thousand servers, and is open source. You can probably trust it, the things its asking for (identify and guilds) are quite common with bot dashboards, so I wouldn't be too worried about it.

I remember the dev said that he had plans to implement that feature with this RSS bot but he doesn't have an ETA. At least according to a reply he made two months ago in that discord support channel. Otherwise it's a very fine RSS bot.

As long as the site supports RSS, you can use this bot called MonitoRSS. If for some reason, you'd like to try a different bot, I recommend top.gg for browsing for more options.

Monitor-RSS with rss-bridge Monitor-RSS allows me to filter RSS feeds obtained from rss-bridge with keywords and let's me embed them to discord. I mainly use xpath on rss-bridge to scrape sports news (fantasy football injuries) and add those feeds to Monitor-RSS that allows to filter them by player names or anything specific I am interested in. Sending those filtered feeds to Discord results in easy reading and manage them via discord tag or channel notifications. This way I get notified for stuff I am interested in and ignore anything not relevant 😎

And by using a bot like MonitoRSS you can get all updates within your discord server directly.

Overall porting content from heroku can be done with koyeb or other listed alternatives. ## References * https://github.com/synzen/MonitoRSS * https://blog.heroku.com/next-chapter

How does this compare to MonitoRSS?

I set up my own RSS feeds for a couple of things and use MonitoRSS to get feeds into channels.

That’s interesting.

I have predictive models that can predict if a headline (w/o the rest of the article and not considering the URL) will (a) get more than 10 votes and (b) if it does get more than 10 votes will the votes/comments ratio be more than 2 (which is roughly average)

The first model gets a ROC-AUC (see https://scikit-learn.org/stable/modules/generated/sklearn.me...) in the low 60’s (not good, the second model gets in the low 70’s (actually pretty good though it is a heat seeking missile for clickbait headlines) and my latest content-based recommender for RSS items gets almost 80. (I saw a paper that one system at TikTok gets about 85)

To do all that you need about 10,000 headlines and don’t get a lot of benefit from having more than 100,000. The ceilings on performance have more to do with the nature of the problem rather than my models: the same article can get submitted twice and get 0 votes one time and 200 the other time so it can never be as accurate as “is this an article about galactic astronomy?”

I had it ingest the HN comments firehose and found the amount of articles was overwhelming, my YOShInOn RSS reader now ingests the “best comments” from

https://hnrss.github.io/

together with 110 other feeds and actually I like the comments it picks out a lot. Now that the system is adding about 3000 items per day it might be able to handle a big feed like the comments firehose since now those comments are diluted with so many quality articles. For a problem like that you might want a two-score system with: (i) is it relevant? (something I like) and (ii) is it popular? (like Google’s PageRank)

I think you could make a model that compares comments in the best comments feed with other comments. I have tried formulating the problems above as regression problems where I try to predict the actual score and it does not work well because of the uncertainty problem but formulated as a classification problem for a score over a threshold it is easy to make a well-calibrated model that tells you “this article has a 20% chance of frontpaging” which is about the best anyone can do.

Subscribe via rss, so you can scratch the curiosity itch and each the FOMO, without coming to the site all the time and looking over the same things 20 times?

https://hnrss.github.io/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9491978

and this https://hnrss.github.io/

ps i’m ok with some % of false positives, but hopefully a sprinkle of OpenAI could keep that magically low?

thanks

It sounds interesting but I use https://hnrss.github.io/

Unless it had most of the features of hnrss.org I would not be able to use it.

Perhaps you could pivot your approach and submit a PR to hnrss for the feature?

Looks like there's an unmerged PR on the third-party hnrss project that would add this: https://github.com/hnrss/hnrss/pull/84

Check out below link to get a more customized, topic wise rss feeds.

https://hnrss.github.io/