[HN Gopher] RSS Feed Organization Strategies and New Feed Cost
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       RSS Feed Organization Strategies and New Feed Cost
        
       Author : surprisetalk
       Score  : 20 points
       Date   : 2024-03-29 03:03 UTC (3 days ago)
        
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       | wolverine876 wrote:
       | I'd love a RSS reader that groups items on the same topic.
       | 
       | For example, let's say I have feeds from 25 news sources and the
       | President gives a speech on Ukraine. I end up with 25 articles on
       | it, spread across my item list; I need to process it 25 times.
       | IME, most items are duplicated at least once - half my items are
       | not needed.
       | 
       | If the feed reader would group all the Biden speech articles then
       | I could process it once - pick the item I want to read, delete
       | the rest. That's also more efficient because it's easier to
       | compare the items.
       | 
       | Online news aggregators like Google News already do that, so the
       | technology exists, but I haven't seen it in a feed reader. I also
       | wonder if the LLMs could group them more accurately.
        
         | nbbaier wrote:
         | I bet language models could definitely help here, yeah. Perhaps
         | something like (1) get content offeed items as they come in,
         | (2) embed the content, (3) use those embeddings to group items.
         | Probably not that difficult to be honest
        
       | riidom wrote:
       | I use Thunderbird for RSS, too. Once got bitten by some browser
       | extension that stopped working all of a sudden, and didn't let me
       | export (except copy pasting each feed URL on its own, with clicks
       | inbetween each time).
       | 
       | My most important/only rule for feeds is: Add nothing that
       | updates more than once a day. Such websites are better off as
       | bookmark in the browser.
       | 
       | And from my ~200 feeds only a fraction actually hit that limit.
       | So I have a nice manageable chunk of unreads every day!
        
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