The comp.misc Usenet group is the Usenet equivalent of Hacker News these days, with a pretty lively and esoteric group. We post articles of interest and cross post follow ups to relevant, other groups when there's a specific Usenet group better suited for that topic. So comp.misc is like an article clearing house and a one-stop shop for new articles, which are typically sourced to HN, Slashdot, Pipedot.org, and elsewhere.
The script I linked to above is my own, it's just a little bash script you can use with the newsbeuter RSS reader. Yes it's manual, but it also allows the poster to select articles of most interest to the group. There's still something to be said for human curation.
That said, this looks interesting, and I'm still a big Usenet fan, so let's check it out!
Somewhat surprisingly, this is exactly what it says it is -- not a generic NNTP feed for Hacker News, but a script to slurp up HN and pull it into a local news server.
This is, erm, less useful than some alternatives off the top of my head:
- pipe HN to GMane for distribution via NNTP, which will reduce load on HN but make someone responsible for actually doing it
- actually convince the HN devs to do a unidirectional or even bidirectional gateway to a couple of major NNTP servers (loses reputation and voting, so bidirectional seems unlikely)
While this is no doubt very cool I want to point out that you cannot Post new stories or comments to a NNTP Server but rather you can read existing ones. This is Read-Only. The title is tiny bit misleading (not intentionally) in this regard.
The comp.misc Usenet group is the Usenet equivalent of Hacker News these days, with a pretty lively and esoteric group. We post articles of interest and cross post follow ups to relevant, other groups when there's a specific Usenet group better suited for that topic. So comp.misc is like an article clearing house and a one-stop shop for new articles, which are typically sourced to HN, Slashdot, Pipedot.org, and elsewhere.
The script I linked to above is my own, it's just a little bash script you can use with the newsbeuter RSS reader. Yes it's manual, but it also allows the poster to select articles of most interest to the group. There's still something to be said for human curation.
That said, this looks interesting, and I'm still a big Usenet fan, so let's check it out!