Here's a Hacker News Feed with the main link being the comments
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In here the destination article is showing up just as text without the link to it. Maybe you can add it too? Just to avoid cutting/paste...
Besides that, I like the idea. I generally prefer to read the comments (even though I don't post often) more than the articles itself.
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Besides that, I like the idea. I generally prefer to read the comments (even though I don't post often) more than the articles itself.
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Sadly, I can't turn the URL in the post into a link. For some reason you can either have a URL or some text, but not both.
And I wanted to have the explanation in there...
And I wanted to have the explanation in there...
Aha! Putting it in a comment should work!
http://pipes.yahoo.com/andrewducker/hackernews
My favorite feed is still this one:
http://nirmalpatel.com/fcgi/hn_feed.fcgi
Grabs the full content of the article, and contains links at top and bottom to the comments. Beautiful!
http://nirmalpatel.com/fcgi/hn_feed.fcgi
Grabs the full content of the article, and contains links at top and bottom to the comments. Beautiful!
It is very nice. It doesn't include everything perfectly, seems to have problems with wikipedia articles and the crawler seems to have been banned from vimeo, but it is still my preferred starting point.
I've actually used it as the starting point for my own yahoo pipe, stripping out some of the less than stellar submissions. One thing I've noticed though is that passing the HN feed through 3 intermediaries, nirmalpatel.com, yahoo and then google reader, does slow down the flow of news articles.
I've actually used it as the starting point for my own yahoo pipe, stripping out some of the less than stellar submissions. One thing I've noticed though is that passing the HN feed through 3 intermediaries, nirmalpatel.com, yahoo and then google reader, does slow down the flow of news articles.
Here's the URL as a link - as comments autolinkify, while posts don't:
http://pipes.yahoo.com/andrewducker/hackernews
Odd. I use Bloglines for the HN feed, and each item has three links; one with the item title, two that say "Comments", all of which go to the comments.
I can't see how that happens with my feed. The contents all look like this:
<item>
<title>ServerFault launches - it's StackOverflow for sysadmins</title>
<link>http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=628050</link>
<description><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://serverfault.com/">http://serverfault.com/</a></description>
<guid isPermaLink="false">0e19519adf051525192d459e8249e833_a67122af514df6b6b26c92b8445e27b2</guid>
</item>
People seemed 50/50 on the idea - with several good suggestions that it would make a good additional feed, but the current feed shouldn't be changed.
Davertron suggested Yahoo Pipes as a way of creating a new feed from the existing one, so I took his example and enhanced it to produce one: http://pipes.yahoo.com/andrewducker/hackernews
It also gave me a chance to play with Yahoo Pipes, which turned out to be pretty flexible and easy to use.
Feel free to use the new RSS feed - and if you decide to clone the pipe I created to enhance it further, then just leave a comment!