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Chuck Carroll
Personal blog · chuck.is · on HN as extr0piansystemssecurity
Chuck Carroll's personal blog at chuck.is covers systems and security. Since 2022, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 32 times, most often “How to Get the RSS Feed for Any YouTube Channel (2024)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-10, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for its guide to turning YouTube channels into RSS feeds, and one names it as a favourite low-tech, plain HTML website. Comments mostly point to the RSS guide as a workaround.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- How to Get the RSS Feed for Any YouTube Channel (2024)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-06-13
- /2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-11-18
- Owning a Domain Increases Digital Self-Reliance2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-01-05
- Is Social Media Making Us Stupid?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-12-26
What Hacker News says?
I love Neocities. Over the summer I transitioned my personal website from Wordpress to a static HTML/CSS site. I used Neocities to relearn HTML and learn CSS, as well as figure out how I was going to implement the CSS so that my site that looked okay-ish on desktop and mobile. https://chuck.is
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on “Neocities: A platform that lets you create your own website/follow other's sites”Submitted The News Is Information Junk Food (2022) as a story · 159 points
HN discussionI don’t use those other sites, but YouTube, here ya go. https://chuck.is/yt-rss/ Worst case, pretty much every modern client has features that let you subscribe to things that aren’t RSS friendly. For example Feedly (which I don’t use) has the ability to subscribe to Twitter, Reddit, Mastodon, Facebook, Telegram, Google News search queries, etc.
Comment linking /yt-rss/
on “The Rise and Demise of RSS (2018)”Submitted Some Useful Bash Aliases (2022) as a story · 85 points
HN discussionThere was another HN thread not long ago about the "quest for a dumber phone": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34415704 I dropped a comment there where I said that while I spent hours researching the "perfect dumb phone", there's certain features that are nearly exclusive to a smartphone or just plain work better on a smartphone, including having a decent camera and GPS/map with me at all times. IMO, I think it…
Comment linking /phone
on “Dumb phones are on the rise in the U.S. as Gen Z looks to limit screen time”Submitted Is Social Media Making Us Stupid? as a story · 18 points
HN discussion> I think moving to Substack (retain domain) would be a much stronger way to build in the long term Hmm, the danger there is that one is putting a lot of one's eggs into a fickle basket. In the early days of Facebook we had a page with 20k+ followers, and we got a lot of engagement there, people followed us to be informed of when we published anything new. Then one day Facebook introduced 'boosting,' and overnight o…
Comment linking /platform/
on “A Possible Future for Damn Interesting”Submitted How to Tell If You're Behind a Cgnat as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSeveral years ago, I transitioned my Wordpress website to a static CSS/HTML only site, editing/updating it with vim and sftp https://chuck.is . Overall, it's been a fantastic learning experience doing everything manually (though I plan to automate more soon). I was inspired by http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/
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on “A small collection of text-only websites”Submitted Auto-Mounting an Encrypted LUKS Drive at Startup as a story · 5 points
HN discussionI had researched dumb phones recently only to learn that the two most important functions of a smartphone (for me) is the GPS and having a decent camera, and these things are either crippled or missing entirely from dumb phones. It's simply easier to dumb down your existing smartphone, especially if you have an Android phone. In my case, I have a 2017 Pixel 2 XL running LineageOS, with a text only home screen launce…
Comment linking /phone
on “The Quest for a Dumber Phone”Submitted A Reminder on the Realities of Digital Purchases as a story · 4 points
HN discussionMany RSS aggregators automatically convert Youtube links to RSS. You can also do it manually: https://chuck.is/yt-rss/ I have removed Youtube apps from all mobile devices and only watch the creators whose content I'm interested in through RSS, without notifications and distractions. It's a much more pleasant experience, definitely recommend.
Comment linking /yt-rss/
on “Ask HN: Who do you follow via RSS feed?”Submitted The Anatomy of an SSH Config as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI moved my blog from Wordpress to just a static html/css site that I maintain myself, including the rss xml. It's certainly simpler and I've learned a great deal but maintaining even a personal website this way can be a pain (it's far too easy to not catch a typo and breaking something like rss). Jekyll is likely what I may end up switching to. https://chuck.is/html/
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on “From Ugly to Beautiful”Submitted Accessing Home Network Resources with a Cloudflare Tunnel as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThe author mentioned them already, but didn't recommend for violating the GPL, but I have an Onyx Boox Poke 3 and Boox Leaf that run Android that I've rooted. They're not very cheap (the Poke runs about $180). They're pretty fun devices to tinker with. https://chuck.is/rooting-onyx/ Edit: I also experimented with the Poke 3 by creating a sort of "writerdeck" setup with a bluetooth keyboard and termux, then attaching…
Comment linking /writerdeck/
on “E-ink is so Retropunk”Submitted Owning a Domain Increases Digital Self-Reliance as a story · 3 points
HN discussionWindows is adware. A couple weeks ago I recently wrote a rant about the reasons I no longer use Windows on any of my machines [1], but I recently installed Windows 10 on bare metal because I have a work project coming up that likely requires me to use Windows. One of the first new obnoxious things I noticed was that search box in the taskbar had a bright and colorful gift icon inside it. Clicking on that icon brings…
Comment linking /windows
on “Not-so-great features coming soon to Windows 11”Submitted Terminal-Based Programs and What's Optimal as a story · 3 points
HN discussionOff the top of my head: https://brutalist.report/topic/news ? https://urbancommuter.net https://47nil.com https://chuck.is https://wttr.in/ https://cheapskatesguide.org/
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on “Ask HN: Favourite low-tech/plain HTML websites?”Submitted Implementing a 3-2-1 Backup Strategy with restic and Backblaze B2 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionAgreed (mostly). HN is a form of news, but personally, I rarely consume The News™. A useful read is Robert Dobelli's essay "Avoid News Towards a Healthy News Diet": https://chuck.is/files/Avoid%20News_%20Toward%20a%20Healthy%...
Comment linking /files/Avoid%20News_%20Toward%20a%20Healthy%20News%20Diet%20-%20Rolf%20Dobelli.pdf
on “Ask HN: What other news feeds do you read besides Hacker News?”Submitted Self Hosting Passwords as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Rant on Owning a Modern EV as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Owning a Domain Increase Digital Self-Reliance as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Minimizing and Finding Satisifaction with Less as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Get the RSS Feed for Any YouTube Channel (2024) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is Social Media Making Us Stupid? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted On Piracy and DRM as a story · 1 points
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