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. No extensions, no media, just the core RSS defines.
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 layered on top of the RSS core. The maximal end of the format.
- NPR newsA broadcaster's feed carrying audio enclosures alongside text items — enclosures used for their original purpose rather than the podcast one.
- Ars TechnicaA full-content feed: whole articles delivered inside content:encoded rather than a summary and a link, which is where CDATA earns its place.
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