Built this RSS aggregator based on the 2025 HN Popularity Contest rankings by Refactoring English [1]. If there's interest in other slices (top 10, top 200, etc.), happy to add them.
One thing that would be nice is to have the feed be human readable. It is as easy as adding a single line to the XML and setting the content type [1].
Your feeds are also missing a bunch of the headers that readers use to avoid over-fetching your feeds. I build an feed analyzer [2] to help debug things like this.
Really appreciate you reaching out and "self promoting" your project! Super useful! I tried to implement some of the feedback from your analyzer with my latest commit [1]. Feel free to open a pull request with additional improvements or leave them here.
The idea of aggregating feeds doesn’t make much sense to me, that’s what me feed reader is for, no? I just subscribe to the feeds I like. Or what is the benefit of subscribing to an aggregated feed I have no control over?
Why the negativity? If you don't want to use it - dont use it.. I think it's amazing especially for people who are not yet familiar with RSS Feeds, this is a great starting point. Maybe add a Best 10 feed, having Gruber in the Top 25 already pull a lot of posts. But either way great work mate, Make RSS Great Again!!
One thing that would be nice is to have the feed be human readable. It is as easy as adding a single line to the XML and setting the content type [1].
Your feeds are also missing a bunch of the headers that readers use to avoid over-fetching your feeds. I build an feed analyzer [2] to help debug things like this.
[1] https://www.rss.style/
[2] https://www.rss.style/feed-analyzer.html
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