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Show HN: Artemis, a Calm Web Reader

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294 points zerojames | 3 comments | 20 Dec 24 15:28 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source

Earlier this year, I made a web reader that only showed a list of post titles, author domains, and links. The reader only updated once per day, so I wouldn't feel compelled to keep checking for new posts.

I have been using the tool, which I called Artemis, for several months. Every morning, I looked forward to my "morning paper" of blogs I love reading.

There are no notifications, read vs. unread states, counts of posts, etc. Only the last seven days of posts are available. The colour scheme is changeable. Dark mode is supported. All popular feed formats are supported.

There is no reading interface to read blog posts; rather, the links take you to the authors' websites. Many of my favourite bloggers put a lot of effort into the design of their blogs and like to change things up; I wanted an experience that embraced that.

The reader is now available for anyone to use (with invite code "hn").

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mmahemoff ◴[20 Dec 24 15:43 UTC] No.42472057[source]▶
What's a good place to discover high-quality RSS feeds these days?
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1. CharlesW ◴[20 Dec 24 16:29 UTC] No.42472462[source]▶
One tip: Every Substack has a feed, which is a nice alternative to having everything dropped in your email in-box. You just append "/feed" to the end of a newsletter URL, e.g. https://simonw.substack.com/feed.
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2. freetonik ◴[20 Dec 24 17:23 UTC] No.42472949[source]▶
I wonder if Substack would at some point remove or at least cripple this feature. Right now it seems the full-content RSS is served.
3. marginalia_nu ◴[20 Dec 24 18:09 UTC] No.42473308[source]▶
I've been doing adjacent work for my search engine[1], and found substack to annoyingly be one of the sites that employ bot mitigation for its RSS endpoints. If you fetch at a very low rate it works fine, but for these types of bulk retrieval.

Substack is also a bit of a pain to integrate with because they have zero useful contact information and direct all inquiries to a chatbot that is beyond useless, makes it so you have to guess how they want you to interact with their servers since there is nobody to answer questions.

[1] Preview of my take of the idea: https://mastodon.social/@marginalia/113670235590972416