Hacker News Feed Broken
In the RSS/XML <https://news.ycombinator.com/rss> the forward slashes in URLs is being escaped, breaking the links in my reader.
In the RSS/XML <https://news.ycombinator.com/rss> the forward slashes in URLs is being escaped, breaking the links in my reader.
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So, the changes are my fault, but the escapes are valid XML[1][2]. I'd recommend using a better reader. Both Google Reader and Mozilla Thunderbird work fine for me.
[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/REC-xml11-20060816/#dt-escape
[2] http://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnew...
Rawdog's author has filed a bug [1] against feedparser.
[1]: https://code.google.com/p/feedparser/issues/detail?id=407
I like rawdog -- been using it for 10 years, creates a Web page that I can read on any device. But it's no longer active. Granted, the encoding seems valid, but why? Any harm in changing it back?
Twitter bot hasn't updated in about 2 days. Sadness.
I made a new one at https://twitter.com/HackerNewsYCBot
Which reader do you use? Is HN open source?
I use RawDog, but it's HN that is sending links that look like this:
<link>http://stockman.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/stockman-requests-subpoena-of-nsa-s-white-house-irs-phone-logs</link>