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Show HN: MakerStack: a pay-once maker page (SSR, OG images, custom domains)

https://makerstack.altuzar.dev/
1•altuzar•1m ago•0 comments

The Rise of Zero Fertility Desire in China

https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-8921502/v1
2•toomuchtodo•3m ago•2 comments

An honesty-first pipeline for AI-transcribing a small letter archive

https://aboxofletters.com/
1•tangentdesignco•4m ago•0 comments

Sovereign and European AI where your Data Stays under European law

https://melious.ai/
1•marcfrommelious•5m ago•0 comments

Freelance front end and GenAI dev, open for client work

http://upwork.com/freelancers/surajg3
1•gsuraj•6m ago•0 comments

BorrowSanitizer Status Update – July 2026

https://borrowsanitizer.com/status/july_2026.html
1•arto•6m ago•0 comments

2026 Europhysics Prize honors discovery of third fundamental class of magnetism

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1137502
2•bookofjoe•10m ago•0 comments

Why Casper forked Rust's rand crate

https://casualhacks.net/blog/2026-07-27-why-i-forked-rand.html
1•fanf2•11m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Free AI Prompt Gen – A local-first, open-source prompt engineering tool

https://freeaipromptgen.com/
2•linuxterminal•12m ago•0 comments

Visa to Cut 7% of Workforce

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-28/visa-to-cut-7-of-workforce-as-ceo-seeks-to-rev...
2•tosh•15m ago•0 comments

An Odd Kind of Sympathy

https://willthefirst.github.io/synchronizing-metronomes/
1•willthefirst•15m ago•0 comments

Nimdai: Renowned British Gurkha climber and Netflix star confirmed dead

https://news.sky.com/story/nirmal-purja-former-british-special-forces-soldier-dead-after-avalanch...
1•frogfish•15m ago•0 comments

HTML Day 2026 Shanghai

https://rect.repair/html-2026/
1•adrianhon•16m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AllMCPs – Directory of MCP Servers

https://allmcps.com
1•ghosts_•23m ago•0 comments

U.S. lawmakers request information from DoorDash on use of Chinese AI models

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/31/us-lawmakers-doordash-chinese-ai-models.html
1•tito•24m ago•0 comments

Scott Jenson – How the Desktop UX needs to evolve [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IOLRcFC6OY
1•JeremyTheo•24m ago•0 comments

AI Has Passed Every Exam. It Has Never Had an Idea

https://manasbihani.substack.com/p/ai-has-passed-every-exam-it-has-never
4•manasb25•26m ago•0 comments

My Personal Software Journey: Self-Hosting Agent-Built Apps on a Mac Mini

https://metedata.substack.com/p/016-my-personal-software-journey
2•young_mete•28m ago•0 comments

A Country Within Myself

https://www.metanoia-research.com/dispatch-005-a-country-within-myself/
2•metanoia_•29m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: When did we go from agentic loops to graphs?

1•grandimam•29m ago•0 comments

Explosive donated to museum brings bomb squad to Eudunda Family Heritage Gallery

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-31/historian-discovers-explosive-in-museum-donations-sa/10696...
1•Tomte•29m ago•0 comments

The Screen Act Threatens Privacy Far Beyond Adult Websites

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/07/screen-act-threatens-privacy-far-beyond-adult-websites
2•Brajeshwar•29m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Agentmetry – local-first flight recorder for AI coding agents

https://agentmetry.ai/
1•blitzcrieg1•33m ago•0 comments

Did you know about Dulus? The AI harness that is giving free agentic AI?

1•devdulus•34m ago•0 comments

Dates That Don't Exist (2015)

https://blog.yossarian.net/2015/06/09/Dates-That-Dont-Exist
2•EndXA•34m ago•0 comments

The Future of Technosignature Searches: Constraining the Fermi Paradox

https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.00463
1•root-parent•38m ago•0 comments

Ruby on Rails RCE

https://github.com/rails/rails/security/advisories/GHSA-xr9x-r78c-5hrm
1•campuscodi•38m ago•0 comments

In Turkey, your coffee comes with a side of destiny

https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/26/travel/turkey-coffee-istanbul-ottoman-empire
2•koolhead17•40m ago•0 comments

Earth Overshoot Day

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Overshoot_Day
2•soupspaces•40m ago•0 comments

Datacenters in Space

https://cacm.acm.org/news/datacenters-in-space/
2•visha1v•41m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

I ♥ RSS – A directory of people who love RSS

https://andrewshell.org/2026/07/i-%e2%99%a5-rss/
81•speckx•1h ago

Comments

dgellow•51m ago
HN renders emojis in color?! I’m reading that on an iPad and see a red heart. That’s a first
minraws•50m ago
that's specific to your os it renders in os emoji colors iirc.
dgellow•50m ago
I’ve always seen emoji being stripped on HN, so it’s very surprising to see colors for once
culi•42m ago
They've always been stripped for me as well. This "emoji" actually appears black for me however.

I think the reason its not stripped is because it's actually "U+2665 : BLACK HEART SUIT {valentine}" which predates the emojis. Lots of fonts and OSes will render these older unicode symbols as emojis

sylware•42m ago
Well, in theory, with proper UTF-8 support you don't need to filter out anything.

Unsupported unicode code points are just rendered using a place holder.

dijit•50m ago
this is the first emoji I see on HN at all, they’re filtered out in comments.
tom_•45m ago
I don't remember ever seeing one before either. Will the floodgates now open?
culi•42m ago
It's because it's not actually an emoji (though your OS/font might decide to render it like one)

https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+2665

It's part of the card suite icons

♠♡♢♣♤♥♦♧

pkulak•50m ago
Not up to HN, it’s up to your font and font rendering.
cyptus•47m ago
first time also! depending on iOS for me.
clickety_clack•44m ago
I only have a fairly basic understanding of encodings, but is this one by any chance in one of the smaller “standard” character sets and not in the huge Unicode “emoji” set?
culi•37m ago
yes, exactly:

♠♡♢♣♤♥♦♧

dgellow•35m ago
Funny, I see the 1st, 4th, 6th and 7th in color. The outlined ones look like standard font characters
culi•28m ago
To me they are (correctly) rendered as black
dgellow•7m ago
Joke on me for using Apple devices :(
dgellow•37m ago
Yep, that seems to be the case!
prmoustache•15m ago
It is not an emoji but a unicode character and HN doesn't render it, your OS does.
edhelas•50m ago
If you love RSS, embrace Atom 1.0 :) Its the final modern form of RSS.
CharlesW•46m ago
Atom's problem is that RSS is also the final modern form of RSS.
graemep•33m ago
Why is Atom better?
rpdillon•33m ago
Yeah, I've been writing software that provides feeds for RSS, but I exclusively use Atom. It's just a better format. It does create ambiguity when using a site like this because I'm not sure if my sites will qualify as having an RSS 2.0 feed or not.
bolt012•45m ago
I love self hosting my own RSS feed with miniflux!
poisonborz•38m ago
Nowadays I see these sites as nothing else but mining grounds for personal profiling by big tech. Nothing can be a cutesy show-off anymore.
listic•32m ago
Why not for small tech and individuals?

Is there a law or something? :)

culi•25m ago
Small tech and individuals will never be able to take as much advantage of these standards as a multi-billion dollar data center is. 99% of them wouldn't ever even find these feeds
theanonymousone•36m ago
Please add me
ninjahawk1•33m ago
seeing an emoji in a title on HN really surprised me, I didn’t even know you could do that. Shows how much emotion we use on here lol.
RattlesnakeJake•12m ago
The last time I tried to use one in a comment, it got stripped out. I guess that doesn't apply to submission titles.
mickeyp•28m ago
I love RSS but what I love more than RSS are people who blog about stuff: high concept stuff, day-to-day stuff and just what they did yesterday.

I wish people would blog more like in the old days.

mathgladiator•21m ago
Im going to be doing this again without an agenda. I am recovering from using AI to write thoughts because now I see and hear the patterns which are becoming obnoxious.
smarkov•26m ago
Maybe you love being the consumer of RSS feeds, but you certainly wouldn't love being the poor bastard who has to parse them.

Even though it's a simple standard that's been around for decades, there are still many sites which serve their feeds with a subtly wrong format. When something doesn't work, users come knocking on your door saying "it works in X reader but not in yours", so now you have to handle that and contribute to the ever growing list of out of spec edge cases that feed readers need to account for.

paradoxyl•25m ago
What sort of punishment should the monopolist google execs who destroyed blogs undergo? A fair punishment might be clawback of all wages and stock options and about five years in a minimum security prison with a permenant felony on their record. I think that's fair.
colesantiago•23m ago
How much money do you need for a class action lawsuit on this?

I think we should take Google to court over destroying blogs and force them to add back RSS support.

qudat•11m ago
Nice! The entire https://pico.sh constellation of services are built off rss for notifications.

https://pico.sh/feeds is an ssh app that is an rss-to-email service.

jjordan•2m ago
Wow, what timing. Not to shill, but I'm also nearly done building a directory of RSS feeds. It stemmed from a frustration of outdated and broken RSS feed collections, and the long slow death of the orange RSS subscribe button across the web. I'm not officially launched yet but I would love some feedback and maybe some of the RSS feeds that land in your directory can be added to mine.

https://rssvault.org

Password is vaultearly644988

Pardon the dust. There's an app tie-in that I'm almost done with too, a widget-first app that shows your RSS feed collections on your phone's home screen. It would really be great if we could start to bring about an RSS renaissance!

pKropotkin•1m ago
I ♥ JSONFeed
chrismorgan•1m ago
I hate RSS. It’s a bad format that developed organically in all the worst ways, and it should have died completely in favour of Atom by about twenty years ago. I started a draft describing some of the problems that actually matter (thing that can’t be represented reliably in RSS, and such) in <https://chrismorgan.info/atom%3Erss>.

I still need to decide which spec I hate more, RSS or OpenGraph. Hmm… RSS had more excuses for being bad, OpenGraph was just a spectacularly bad thing thrown over the wall by a company that should have known better. (I drafted something examining how comprehensively bad it was some years ago, I should put it onto my new site and continue it at some point.)