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Gunnar Þór Magnússon
Personal blog · magnusson.ioprogrammingmathphilosophy
Gunnar Þór Magnússon's personal blog at magnusson.io covers programming, math and philosophy. Since 2017, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “Backing up data like the adult I supposedly am”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-10-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for its minimal feed reader project, 'evil-feed-reader', which groups entries by date and shows a clickable feed/title URL. Commenters point to it as a simple alternative to mainstream RSS readers.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Backing up data like the adult I supposedly am3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-09-18
What Hacker News says?
I dislike most RSS/Atom readers for the same reason. I made my own minimal reader for my personal use [1] that only groups entries together by date and displays a feed/title URL I can click on. My browser can remember which links I've read and which I haven't. I find it works really well, it does exactly what I want. [1] http://magnusson.io/evil-feed-reader/ - in case anyone is interested in what it looks like
Comment linking /evil-feed-reader/
on “It's time to head back to RSS?”Submitted Backing up data like the adult I supposedly am as a story · 207 points
HN discussionNice. I did the same a couple of months ago: http://www.magnusson.io/evil-feed-reader It does very little, but exactly what I want.
Comment linking /evil-feed-reader
on “Text-only news sites are slowly making a comeback”Submitted Local Distributed Rate Limiting as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Not Made for This World as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Silicon Valley will solve the trolley problem as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Backing up data like the adult I supposedly am as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Review of Home Manager as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Request-level configuration invariance in Go as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Counterexamples of positivity implications in Kähler curvature tensors as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Backing up data like the adult I supposedly am as a story · 1 points
HN discussion