Rss – Is It Needed

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Information Overload

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News Aggregation

There is this old link from HN 8 years ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16721690

I have been jumping between coding, browse some news, look at something claude code finished, etc.

I'm more focused on the work than the outside world. I just had a moment tonight wishing RSS was still a wide spread viable thing. (I have netnewswire on my phone).

Are there options summarizing (topic of choice) information overload?

The author nostalgically reflects on RSS as a viable means of managing information overload, sparking a consideration of alternatives for summarizing news and topics of interest.

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