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Show HN: 100kb – an opinionated feed of personal blogs (100kb.danhill.is)

44 points by danhilltech ↗ HN
Hi HN! This is a personal project I finally got round to completing and shipping.

It’s a simple feed of articles written by real people with interesting things to say.

I wanted to explore some new technologies I haven't had a chance to try before, mostly rust and LLMs.

As I browse HN each day I find myself most drawn to the content on personal blogs: people who have interesting things to say, from their own point-of-view, on a whole range of topics. Rather than being interested in particular topics, I’m more interested in reading from interesting people.

This isn't a particularly new idea, there's been plenty of similar projects shared on HN and on the internet (Kagi Search, Marginalia, Bearblog etc). But, I don't think personal projects need to be revolutionary to be useful (to me at least).

It's open source here https://github.com/danhilltech/100kb.golang

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DamonHD
Obvs I approve this message since I (currently) feature on the first page!
danhilltech
Thanks! I actually read your note on `use Cache-Control max-age HTTP headers for a "do not poll again before" time: savings of 10x or much more are likely if the feed server is set up well: an unnecessary feed poll avoided entirely is the cheapest kind!` and realized I don't currently, so adding that tonight.
breck
Can you make "Total Feeds: 17162" clickable so we can see the list?

Can you make it so when I click a domain it shows me all the posts from that domain?

Can you put the github link on the site as well? (I only saw it in your Show HN post)

tiffanyh
Is this effectively your RSS subscription list (made public)?

And if so, it would be great if you offered RSS capability so that I can subscribe to it.

danhilltech
Not quite. It's first a search engine, so I index latest HN posts and a few other sources. There's then an algorithm that classifies new feeds as either "good" (personal blog, little ads, first person writing etc) or not. Then yes, it's those RSS feeds ranked chronologically. But the point is, it's not a curated or set list of blogs.
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DevX101
Curated projects like this identifying real human writings will be more important as AI slop takes over the internet.
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