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news.yc suggestion: RSS Feed

7 points by DXL ↗ HN
Why not have an RSS feed of, say, the top 50 stories. I know that they're constantly moving in and out, but it should be doable. You're all hackers after all ;)

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catalinist
beautiful ! now ... can you put a link up there on the ... erm ... menu bar ?
rippon
It's at the bottom....
staunch
It would probably be a good idea for the main page to allow for auto detecting the feed so it shows the little RSS icon in the location bar.

I think something like this is all you need in <head>

<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Hacker News" href="http://news.ycombinator.com/rss"/>

henning
yes, it already existed, but most people won't know that unless they see the orange button in their browser's toolbar indicating that the feed was autodetected.
champion
What I really want is a link in the feed to the item on news.yc itself -- not just the source link. Part of the value is the discussion and having to find it again on news.yc is a pain.