alt.hn

7/14/2026 at 7:39:28 PM

Show HN: A Free RSS reader with a configurable recommendation engine

 https://sprinklz.io/feed/home

by sammy0910

7/14/2026 at 9:38:01 PM

> I found the algorithm nudged me toward emptier, clickbatier content.

I appreciate the effort as RSS is the best way to read a lot of sources but is login/signup really needed?

by sixtyj

7/14/2026 at 9:41:47 PM

you can click any of the demo boxes on the home page to use it without signing up

if you want to save your preferences though, we _do_ need you to sign up, so that we can save who you follow, etc. to a database.

e.g. here is a direct link to the top headlines: https://sprinklz.io/demo/headlineNews

glad you're feeling this way too!

by sammy0910

7/14/2026 at 10:26:12 PM

It should be: Demos: (no login required) Some may think it redundant. Not me.

by lindnertim

7/15/2026 at 7:04:06 AM

Dark Reader on FF mobile can't redraw for some reason. Too bright white !

by niles

7/15/2026 at 8:44:50 AM

yes -- Sprinklz supports custom themes, and there's no good way to support the combination of custom themes + dark mode.

See: https://sprinklz.io/demo/editThemes for an example. (on nonmobile if you want to see the on-screen editor)

We _could_ run something like https://github.com/sstraust/automagic-dark-mode , but I decided against it, because it makes for a confusing user experience. idk -- i wanted to support dark mode, but it's hard to make these tradeoffs correctly.

by sammy0910

7/14/2026 at 10:31:14 PM

I get a "failed to load feed with name home" on first load. Recurs on hard refresh

by wyattsell

7/14/2026 at 10:40:36 PM

hm -- are you doing anything spicy with your browser?

i tried signup on chrome/firefox/safari + demos and i can't manage to repro.

im assuming this is after submitting signup?

by sammy0910

7/14/2026 at 10:46:03 PM

This is without logging in, on: https://sprinklz.io/feed/home. Occurs in incognito too. Nothing blocked on the network so seems client side.

by wyattsell

7/14/2026 at 10:55:49 PM

i have a guess at what's happening, but it would be a little bit of an unusual/edge case -- i made a backend change and it should maybe work now in this case?

if not i will crawl into the deep cave for a longer debugging session

by sammy0910