News and media
Hacker News front page
About as small as a useful RSS feed gets: a title, a link, a comments link, and nothing else.
This is the minimal end of the format. There are no extensions, no media, no Dublin Core — just the elements RSS itself defines, which makes it the clearest possible demonstration of the core.
It is served as application/rss+xml, one of the few feeds that gets its media type exactly right.
- Publisher
- Y Combinator
- Host
news.ycombinator.com- Format
- RSS 2.0
- Root when listed
- rss (2026-08-18)
- Size when listed
- 11.1 KB
What the last check saw
Fetched and parsed, 11.1 KB.Checked 2026-08-18 16:03 UTC
Structure
- Root element
rss- Detected as
- rss
- Nodes
- 185
- Namespaces
- None declared
/rss×1/rss/channel×1/rss/channel/title×1/rss/channel/link×1/rss/channel/description×1/rss/channel/item×30/rss/channel/item/title×30/rss/channel/item/link×30/rss/channel/item/pubDate×30/rss/channel/item/comments×30/rss/channel/item/description×30
Recent checks
- ok2026-08-18 16:03 UTC
- ok2026-08-18 16:01 UTC
Where it reaches
Also in this category
- BBC NewsOne of the longest-running public RSS feeds on the web, and a reliable reference for what a conventional RSS 2.0 document looks like.
- New York Times front pageA large, extension-heavy news feed — Dublin Core, media, and per-item categories on top of the RSS core.
- NPR newsA broadcaster's feed carrying audio enclosures alongside text items.
- Ars TechnicaA full-content feed: whole articles delivered inside content:encoded rather than a summary and a link.
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