Ranchero-Software/NetNewsWire on Hacker News

…not to send money. > First thing: don’t send money. This app is written for love, not money. :) https://github.com/Ranchero-Software/NetNewsWire/blob/main/T...

comment by al_borland · 2026-08-01 · in How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023)

…many years NetNewsWire and have never had any problems reading the news I want to read. For ref: https://github.com/Ranchero-Software/NetNewsWire

comment by konsalexee · 2026-08-01 · in How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023)

…built with stand UI components migrated to 'Liquid glass' much easier. The app is open source ( https://github.com/Ranchero-Software/NetNewsWire ), feel free to back-port any features or bug-fixes you would like to spend your time on.

comment by sherry-sherry · 2026-02-12 · in NetNewsWire Turns 23

GitHub reports that there are 242 open issues labeled "Bug". https://github.com/Ranchero-Software/NetNewsWire/issues?q=is...

comment by chmaynard · 2026-02-12 · in NetNewsWire Turns 23

NetNewsWire is open source[1]. You can use a fork with your changes. [1] https://github.com/Ranchero-Software/NetNewsWire

comment by danielfalbo · 2025-12-21 · in Wish HN: Dark Mode for Xmas (Or 2026)

NetNewsWire is great, and the developer is just in it for the love of the game and the open web. https://github.com/Ranchero-Software/NetNewsWire/blob/main/T...

comment by al_borland · 2025-10-08 · in The RSS feed reader landscape

…also available as Reeder Classic on mac app store. Anyway, there's this https://netnewswire.com - https://github.com/Ranchero-Software/NetNewsWire (mac native) if someone is looking for an open source alt.

comment by crossroadsguy · 2025-10-01 · in Kagi News

…RSS with <img> tags in the <description> do render. Maybe it's just a client issue. Edit: Yep, https://github.com/Ranchero-Software/NetNewsWire/issues/2538 . My bad; not a Mastodon issue.

comment by greyface- · 2024-01-16 · in Bluesky has launched RSS feeds

Personally I use NewNewsWire. Great simple and unobtrusive OSS mobile app. https://github.com/Ranchero-Software/NetNewsWire

comment by awkwardpotato · 2023-12-11 · in We don't have official RSS feed support for now, but we're working on a solution

…and stability as design priorities. It's the opposite of an Electron wrapper around a web app. [1] https://github.com/Ranchero-Software/NetNewsWire

comment by sharkjacobs · 2023-02-06 · in Ask HN: Resources to Learn macOS Development?

I use this as well, source on GitHub: https://github.com/Ranchero-Software/NetNewsWire

comment by onnnon · 2022-12-23 · in This is the year of the RSS reader?

…it will be exposed in a more obvious way in the Account dialog in the next version (6.2). https://github.com/Ranchero-Software/NetNewsWire/issues/2859...

comment by dewey · 2022-10-02 · in NetNewsWire: Free and Open Source RSS Reader for Mac and iOS

https://github.com/Ranchero-Software/NetNewsWire/commits/mai...

comment by tantalic · 2022-10-02 · in NetNewsWire: Free and Open Source RSS Reader for Mac and iOS

NetNewsWire uses [0] ‘dateArrived’ as a fallback option. As an example. [0] https://github.com/Ranchero-Software/NetNewsWire/blob/941342...

comment by dive · 2022-06-08 · in Ask HN: How do RSS readers handle items missing pubDates?

…feed, individual user feeds, mentions, and searches on specific terms. https://netnewswire.com https://github.com/Ranchero-Software/NetNewsWire

comment by ascagnel_ · 2022-02-09 · in Ask HN: What Has Happened to Twitter?

…like that you can sync feeds via iCloud or self-hosted instead of an external service. [0] https://github.com/Ranchero-Software/NetNewsWire

comment by aequitas · 2021-10-01 · in Hacker News RSS

…is an open feature request for NetNewsWire and apparently it sort of obeys Feedly's mute feature. https://github.com/Ranchero-Software/NetNewsWire/issues/3018

comment by runjake · 2021-08-30 · in Ask HN: Is there any RSS app with a blacklist / mutelist?

The source code for NetNewsWire might be a useful starting point: https://github.com/Ranchero-Software/NetNewsWire

comment by cpach · 2020-10-04 · in Ask HN: What are the best resources to learn app development for Macs?

…good enough to be honest. [1]: https://miniflux.app [2]: https://miniflux.app/opinionated.html [3]: https://github.com/Ranchero-Software/NetNewsWire/issues/76

comment by mrzool · 2020-10-02 · in Ask HN: What RSS Reader do you use?

…) and it really shows. https://ranchero.com/netnewswire/ Here is their "How to Support NNW" page. https://github.com/Ranchero-Software/NetNewsWire/blob/main/T...

comment by hardmath123 · 2020-10-02 · in Ask HN: What RSS Reader do you use?

I recently got back into RSS and have been using (free) NetNewsWire on macOS/AppStore ( https://github.com/Ranchero-Software/NetNewsWire ). Though RSS clients in 2020 really need to be scraping the origin website. 50% of my feeds are just…

comment by hombre_fatal · 2020-06-19 · in Ask HN: How do you RSS?

…better practical response than just trying to win an argument for the sake of winning an argument. https://github.com/Ranchero-Software/NetNewsWire/issues/491

comment by webwanderings · 2020-05-24 · in Why NetNewsWire Is Fast

…a CloudKit backend[1], which would effectively be a NetNewsWire-only feed syncer service. [1]: https://github.com/Ranchero-Software/NetNewsWire/issues/491

comment by kemayo · 2020-05-23 · in Why NetNewsWire Is Fast

…that only they can read but would be difficult to refactor for others; hence write-only code. [0] https://github.com/Ranchero-Software/NetNewsWire/blob/master...

comment by rvz · 2020-04-27 · in Practicing the Coding Challenges

A link to the github repository, in case anyone else was looking for it too: https://github.com/brentsimmons/NetNewsWire

comment by wdr1 · 2019-09-01 · in NetNewsWire 5.0 – Open-Source RSS Reader for Mac

…a bug. I'm sure having a migration path from old versions of NNW is something Brent cares about. https://github.com/brentsimmons/NetNewsWire/issues/new

comment by shadowfacts · 2019-09-01 · in NetNewsWire 5.0 – Open-Source RSS Reader for Mac

…around in various forms since 2002. It’s great to see it’s back from the dead. Source code is here: https://github.com/brentsimmons/NetNewsWire

comment by tobr · 2019-08-26 · in NetNewsWire 5.0: Open-Source RSS Reader for Mac

The latest version of NetNewsWire is a nice example of a modern MacOS application codebase. https://github.com/brentsimmons/NetNewsWire

comment by sharkjacobs · 2019-07-29 · in Ask HN: What are the “best” codebases that you've encountered?

No. However, you can look at https://github.com/brentsimmons/NetNewsWire

comment by musicale · 2019-07-03 · in No Algorithms

…original author of NetNewsWire. He recently posted screenshot[3] of current Evergreen state. [1]: https://github.com/brentsimmons/Evergreen [2]: https://ranchero.com/evergreen/ [3]: https://twitter.com/brentsimmons/status/102007974286988492…

comment by sashk · 2018-07-20 · in The sad state of RSS on the Mac

…so I was happy to find Evergreen, an open source feed reader which is in active development https://github.com/brentsimmons/Evergreen

comment by sharkjacobs · 2018-04-30 · in Ask HN: What are some amazing open source projects that you have found recently?