NetNewsWire Status: Brent Simmons' Open-Source Retirement Project
Simon Willison's Weblog41 days agoCommentaryBrent Simmons, creator of NetNewsWire, retired roughly a year ago and has chosen the veteran RSS reader as his sole retirement project. Free from any commercial obligation, he is focused on making the software as good as it can possibly be. Simon Willison calls this approach inspiring, noting he relies on NetNewsWire daily across Mac and iPhone.
RSS Is Back. AI Agents Are Reading It.
Hacker News (AI keywords)55 days agoCommentaryThe post argues RSS never truly died; it simply stopped being the main discovery interface for humans while continuing to power podcasting. AI agents now need exactly what RSS provides: deterministic lists of new content, structured parsing, and open access without unstable platform APIs. For publishers, adding RSS may make content easier for monitoring, summarization, and aggregation agents to discover reliably.