Hacker News: jjordan

New comment by jjordan in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)"

jjordan — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 19:50:17 +0000

I'm just about done with https://RSSVault.org, a curated RSS feed directory.

Password is vaultearly644988 if you want to check it out.

The companion app, a widget-first RSS headline viewer called Just The Headlines is just about done too. Site is online if you want to see screenshots: https://justtheheadlines.app

I'm in the (required, sigh) closed test phase of Google Play Store approval. Drop me a line on X (https://x.com/JJordan) if you would like to join the test for that.

Feedback is more than welcome.

New comment by jjordan in "Claude Fable now requires usage credits"

jjordan — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 18:13:46 +0000

It might be a quiet A-B test they're running, but there are several reports now of Claude Code reporting that Fable usage is no longer subscription based and requires using usage credits.

Claude Fable now requires usage credits

jjordan — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 18:13:46 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/JJordan/status/2085411090846957605

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49200286

Points: 4

# Comments: 6

New comment by jjordan in "A directory of people who love RSS"

jjordan — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 04:29:35 +0000

Thanks Dave! Actually I was meaning to reach out, as parsing your site's RSS brought broader support for the format to the entire site. Those title-less blog posts were something else :D I didn't know much about the history of RSS going into this, so I might be your newest fan. Thanks for all of your contributions to the free and open web.

New comment by jjordan in "A directory of people who love RSS"

jjordan — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 23:19:50 +0000

If you think that's esoteric, there's also a JSON feed standard. I have found one thus far while building out an RSS directory of over 1,000 entries.

New comment by jjordan in "A directory of people who love RSS"

jjordan — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 20:35:40 +0000

Thank you

New comment by jjordan in "A directory of people who love RSS"

jjordan — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 20:34:13 +0000

Yeah I'm focused on including more of the Indie Web. I include BBC, NYT, etc. because people expect it, but the directory already has some real depth worth exploring. And each feed details page has a cadence rating to tell you how often they post. So grouping a firehose with a specialty blog that posts 6 times a year probably isn't a good idea, but an OPML full of blogs that post ~monthly would be a delight, IMO.

New comment by jjordan in "A directory of people who love RSS"

jjordan — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 19:15:47 +0000

Yes, with several months of iteration. I've wanted to build this for years but to get it to the point where it's a quality destination is an effort beyond the time I would have been able to contribute.

New comment by jjordan in "A directory of people who love RSS"

jjordan — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 19:12:39 +0000

Hey thanks for taking the time.

"White or almost white text would be better." -- There is some white text, headers and headlines mostly. Did you find the lack of contrast difficult to deal with?

"Make “Add” button visible on homepage." -- you mean like in the search results? That's a fine idea.

"Make a possibility to batch suggest feeds" -- I've been toying with how to handle OPML imports. Definitely a feature to come on the app, but I fear with mass submission on the vault I would be inundated with feeds, and the curation aspect would suffer. I want quality over quantity. But maybe there's a happy middle ground somewhere.

"Move explanatory part of RSS to some other part" -- yeah I guess this might be helpful to someone who doesn't know what RSS is, but then they probably aren't visiting anyway lol I'll give it some thought.

Appreciate it. Thanks again.

New comment by jjordan in "A directory of people who love RSS"

jjordan — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 17:50:53 +0000

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!

New comment by jjordan in "The state of open source AI"

jjordan — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 17:19:45 +0000

Do you think Firefox development is unsustainable without this substantial stipend?

New comment by jjordan in "Former NOAA employees built Climate.us to preserve climate data and resources"

jjordan — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 20:26:50 +0000

To stay out of jail, mostly.

Introducing Rss.chat

jjordan — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 19:13:42 +0000

Article URL: http://scripting.com/2026/07/10/161133.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48863960

Points: 8

# Comments: 0

New comment by jjordan in "Show HN: I made Google Trends for Hacker News by indexing 18 years of comments"

jjordan — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 15:19:38 +0000

back in my day we called this a good ole' fashioned slashdotting.

New comment by jjordan in "Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions"

jjordan — Sun, 31 May 2026 17:41:05 +0000

How did we let this happen? We used to have open protocols, apps like Pidgin that would bring multiple chat clients together under one interface, IRC, Skype P2P, etc. etc.

Was it spammers that caused this mass migration to ever more closed platforms?

New comment by jjordan in "SimCity 3k in 4k (2025)"

jjordan — Wed, 27 May 2026 19:47:31 +0000

Real people are complex and hold a wide palette of skills, opinions, habits, biases, etc. Just enjoy the good and disregard the bad.

New comment by jjordan in "I’ve joined Anthropic"

jjordan — Tue, 19 May 2026 16:29:31 +0000

It's the safer bet.

New comment by jjordan in "Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI"

jjordan — Mon, 18 May 2026 18:12:40 +0000

There was no decision made on this basis. It was dismissed entirely due to the elapsed statute of limitations.

New comment by jjordan in "Gmail registration now requires scanning a QR code and sending a text message"

jjordan — Mon, 11 May 2026 23:07:00 +0000

Back when Google was still fun and innovating. Enshittification consumes all.

New comment by jjordan in "Nullsoft, 1997-2004 (2004)"

jjordan — Mon, 11 May 2026 19:03:24 +0000

Wow, what's the go-to client these days?