Jan 21, 2026

This looks like a trend, and I don’t know how I feel about it:

• HN post “Ask HN: Share your personal website” got 947 points and 2382 comments. The repo received 100+ pull requests in 7 days.

• Its predecessor from 2023 “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?” got 1014 points and 1940 comments.

• The scrape of that post started Kagi Small Web - a random blog browser, powered by a GitHub repo.

• RSS.Social - feed syndicator from Kagi’s repo that presents this post in HN/Lobsters style.

This seems to be a viable way for individual bloggers to get the discoverability they miss by not being on a “big” social media platform. For me, Kagi Small Web is a fun doomscroller-kind time killer. When I tried importing the OPML file into my RSS feed reader, I noticed that a uniform format and an unfiltered stream of content is not engaging at all. Most of the posts don’t click with me. But when the presentation changes with every post, I spend more time exploring the content.

Can’t say that I discovered anything interesting to subscribe to, though. But that might be an effect of informational overflow. Which is supported by my observation of myself skimming quickly through a list of 10+ unread posts, while indulging fully when I only have a couple.