samuelclay/NewsBlur on Hacker News

…BTW, I used to have different ASCII art images on each of my servers. Here's a sampling: https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur/blob/main/ansible/rol... https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur/blob/main/ansible/rol...…

comment by conesus · 2026-10-07 · in Animated ASCII Art for Web Pages

…the bunch. I settled on running NewsBlur on an OVH instance, it's open source and so are the apps. https://github.com/samuelclay/newsblur On the desktop I use the default web interface, it runs and looks nice. A bit too many batteries…

comment by stasomatic · 2026-07-01 · in Show HN: HackerNows – Native iOS HN Client

Unless I misunderstand, it also misses that Newsblur is open source and can be self hosted https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur

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

…so NewsBlur can keep fetching (and archiving) millions of feeds. [0]: https://newsblur.com [1]: https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur

comment by conesus · 2024-10-17 · in Using Cloudflare on your website could be blocking RSS users

…host, but for the price of the service, I am happy to pay. There are apps for most every platform. https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur

comment by dade_ · 2024-02-24 · in Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023)

Really like NewsBlur - https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur

comment by bobek · 2024-01-07 · in MozillaSocial

…a certain percentage of the content, considers them duplicates. Here's the code that does the work: https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur/blob/master/apps/rss_...

comment by conesus · 2023-06-20 · in Style your RSS feed

And: - NewsBlur: https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur - Stringer: https://github.com/stringer-rss/stringer - CommaFeed: https://github.com/Athou/commafeed - Yarr: https://github.com/nkanaev/yarr - News app for Nextcloud:…

comment by trynewideas · 2022-12-23 · in RSS Readers That You Can Self Host

Newsblur https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur or hosted https://newsblur.com/ You can use the newsblur API in newsboat as well.

comment by BlackLotus89 · 2021-10-01 · in Hacker News RSS

From a quick skim through https://github.com/samuelclay/newsblur for models extending mongo.Document, it looks like the following private customer data has been breached: - all story content from all private feeds - any uploaded OPML…

comment by 0-1 · 2021-06-24 · in Hacker deleted all of NewsBlur’s Mongo data and is now holding the data hostage

…at newsblur.com which has the nice property of existing in both hosted and self-hosted forms: https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur

comment by acdha · 2021-02-03 · in I Still Use RSS

+1 for Newsblur, also open source! https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur I dearly miss Google Reader but that's the best replacement (and even better now than Reader was)

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

…of great features to build. You can inspect the code base right now and see if you're a good fit: https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur (check clients/Android for the Java source). Email me at samuel@newsblur.com. We can start immediately!

comment by conesus · 2020-03-23 · in Ask HN: Who is hiring right now?

I think Newsblur [0] can do it but self hosting it is pretty involved. [0]: https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur

comment by Semaphor · 2019-12-27 · in Apple News No Longer Supports RSS

https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur is open source, commercial.

comment by mattmcknight · 2019-03-30 · in RSS Is Better Than Twitter

Why not use a feed reader which is designed and optimized for that task? I like Newsblur.com (aka https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur ) but there are tons of great desktop apps which do a much better job than Firefox ever did.

comment by acdha · 2018-12-11 · in Firefox 64 Released

A big plus for me is that NewsBlur is free software (MIT licensed): https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur . It also comes with a nice API that can be used with several clients : https://newsblur.com/api .

comment by Arkanosis · 2018-03-31 · in It's time to head back to RSS?

…cool with paid[0] or self-hosted[1], I've heard Newsblur is nice. [0] https://newsblur.com/ [1] https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur

comment by nathcd · 2018-03-14 · in Digg Reader is planning to shut down on March 26

…time comes around. This is why I went with Newsblur.com, which is open source: https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur In the worse case I just run my own instance.

comment by iak8god · 2017-11-11 · in The Case for RSS

…using samuel clay's site. i do not know how much of a bear self-hosting it is, but it is available. https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur

comment by steanne · 2017-07-19 · in Ask HN: Self-hosted news aggregator that supports Google Reader exports

…build a small business with an Open Source code-base [1]. [0] http://www.newsblur.com/about [1] https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur

comment by slgeorge · 2016-05-15 · in Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore?

…choices for the people lies in the freedom software, not proprietary service. Liferea and newsblur( https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur ) are some good open source alternatives.

comment by oldgun · 2016-04-26 · in O Reader My Reader – Remembering Google Reader

…/ sites in one place and use HN / Reddit for discussion about said. 1. https://www.newsblur.com/ 2. https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur

comment by disposition2 · 2016-02-19 · in Ask HN: Do you still read RSS feeds?

…management, social, etc. – and it has a viable business model, not to mention being open-source ( https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur ). The one advantage Reader arguably still had was what came from their search infrastructure (caching…

comment by acdha · 2015-03-06 · in Google Memorial: the small museum of projects abandoned by Google

http://Newsblur.com and if it ever shuts down you can just run your own instance @ https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur ;-)

comment by ghuntley · 2015-01-14 · in Ask HN: What is one discontinued product that you miss?

NewsBlur[0] is open-source[1] and seems to be doing well. [0]: http://www.newsblur.com/ [1]: https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur

comment by frakkingcylons · 2014-09-19 · in Ask HN: Are there startups that went open-source and succeed?

Since it hasn't been mentioned yet, I'd like to suggest NewsBlur[1]. [1] https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur

comment by asaddhamani · 2014-06-11 · in Feedly gets hit by DDoS attack, refuses to give in to blackmail

…document). Here's an actual example, compare the READMEs for these open source RSS readers: https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur/blob/master/README.md https://github.com/SSilence/selfoss/blob/master/README.md…

comment by swanson · 2014-05-19 · in Making Your Writing Work Harder For You

Bug report opened on NewsBlur: https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur/issues/534 Because they're using Requests this should be a fairly trivial fix for them.

comment by Lukasa · 2014-05-12 · in If You Can Read This, You're SNIing

…source [1] so in the worst case, you could still make them work with a bit fiddling I guess. [1]: https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur/tree/master/clients/

comment by egeozcan · 2014-03-14 · in Google Reader announced its shutdown exactly a year ago

NewsBlur is open source and you can set up a self-hosted version of it as well. See https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur

comment by shrikant · 2014-03-14 · in Google Reader announced its shutdown exactly a year ago

Fwiw, these are the current limits: https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur/blob/feb398a2d4821d84...

comment by _delirium · 2014-01-20 · in Feedly Found a New Way to Steal Page Views From Publishers

…standard). It supports lots of other stuff too. This is how I use Jammit on NewsBlur: https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur/blob/master/utils/jam... . I then compress the assets, upload to S3, and then deploy to my servers. See…

comment by conesus · 2014-01-09 · in Must-have Django packages

…Django. I also endorse django-redis and use it for caching, pub sub, and various data types. See https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur/blob/master/settings.... for my redis configuration. I also use django-redis for caching (which is…

comment by conesus · 2014-01-09 · in Must-have Django packages

…and Android to complement the killer web-app. I highly recommend it. [0] https://newsblur.com/ [1] https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur

comment by tropicalmug · 2013-12-08 · in Feedly is Now Hijacking Shared Links And Cutting Out Original Publishers

…if Samuel Clay (Newsblur, YC S12) would agree with that sentiment, given that he has published https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur for all to see. I haven't committed to my own startup idea yet, but my plan for it does involve…

comment by Cyranix · 2013-10-24 · in CodeCombat in Y Combinator

…can keep using the software by hosting it yourself or finding someone else to host it for you. [0]: https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur You might also find the Franklin Street Statement[1] to be an interesting read -- it tries to set…

comment by andrewaylett · 2013-09-29 · in Why Free Software Is More Important Now Than Ever Before

Newsblur is also written in Django - https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur

comment by gchucky · 2013-06-30 · in django-yarr – open source self-hosted Django RSS Reader

https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur

comment by zeckalpha · 2013-06-30 · in Where will Google Reader traffic go?

File a bug report: https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur/issues

comment by zeckalpha · 2013-06-25 · in Google Reader Apocalypse Extremely Fucking Nigh

…Newsblur? Sounds exactly like what you're describing. API: http://www.newsblur.com/api Open Source: https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur Also, cheers for not including a link to your Kickstarter.

comment by dmbass · 2013-06-25 · in Google Reader Apocalypse Extremely Fucking Nigh

https://github.com/swanson/stringer https://github.com/Athou/commafeed https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur https://github.com/socketubs/leselys https://github.com/glynnbird/birdreader

comment by swanson · 2013-06-23 · in Ask HN: Which self-hosted RSS Reader have you switched to?

Given that the source is available ( https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur ), I sincerely hope that some kind soul will patch this and let us config the "mark as read" aging function, either by days or ability to just turn it off.

comment by mwexler · 2013-06-18 · in Poll: Which RSS reader have you switched to?

…or Tiny Tiny RSS[2] would get you much further than being able to see the Reader source. [1] https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur [2] http://tt-rss.org/

comment by jmillikin · 2013-04-29 · in Google releases some Glass source code

…looking at these two options: https://github.com/clutchio/clutch/blob/master/django_ext/ht... https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur/blob/master/utils/jso...

comment by misiti3780 · 2013-03-31 · in Effective Django

Newsblur is also open source: https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur

comment by mnutt · 2013-03-26 · in You Can’t Quit, I Dare You

https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur

comment by amccloud · 2013-03-23 · in Ask HN: Sample / open source python-django websites

You could open source it anyway, though, or parts of it. NewsBlur does this: https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur One could run their own NewsBlur, but Samuel has stated it requires a lot of resources to pull RSS feeds, and so in…

comment by graue · 2013-03-21 · in Show HN: A single, searchable API for all social networks, news, and blogs

…[2] http://algorithmsforthekitchen.com/blog/?p=479 [3] http://owncloud.org/ [4] https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur

comment by Semaphor · 2013-03-18 · in Google Reader Alternatives

https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur/blob/master/apps/rss_... It looks like MongoDB is being used for fetch/push history, feed icon data, and article data. It's also being used for some other stuff: https://github.com/search?l=Python&q=%2…

comment by ceol · 2013-03-18 · in Three Months to Scale NewsBlur