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RT @karpathy: Finding myself going back to RSS/Atom feeds a lot more recently. There's a lot more higher quality longform and a lot less sl…

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### Original `2018043254986703167` Andrej Karpathy @karpathy

Finding myself going back to RSS/Atom feeds a lot more recently. There's a lot more higher quality longform and a lot less slop intended to provoke. Any product that happens to look a bit different today but that has fundamentally the same incentive structures will eventually converge to the same black hole at the center of gravity well.

We should bring back RSS - it's open, pervasive, hackable.
Download a client, e.g. NetNewsWire (or vibe code one)
Cold start: example of getting off the ground, here is a list of 92 RSS feeds of blogs that were most popular on HN in 2025:
https://gist.github.com/emschwartz/e6d2bf860ccc367fe37ff953ba6de66b
Works great and you will lose a lot fewer brain cells.

I don't know, something has to change.