I built a fast RSS reader in Zig
Well, I certainly tried. I had to, because it has a certain quirk inspired by "digital minimalism." The quirk is that it only allows you to fetch new articles once per day (or X days). Why? Let me explain... I want my internet content to be like a boring newspaper. You get it in the morning, and you read the whole thing while sipping your morning coffee, and then you're done! No more new information for today. No pings, no alerts, peace, quiet, zen, etc. But with that, I needed it to be able to fetch all articles from my hundreds of feeds in one sitting. This is where Zig and curl…
I built a fast RSS reader in Zig launched on December 16, 2025 with 90 votes, #342 of 11,628 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches.
In plain words
An RSS reader built in Zig that fetches articles once per day (or at custom intervals) to promote focused, distraction-free reading. It's designed for users managing hundreds of feeds who want to consume all new content in a single session rather than receive constant notifications. The reader uses performance optimizations including curl multi for concurrent network requests and HTTP/2 multiplexing to efficiently fetch from multiple feeds at once.
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From the sources
Terminal RSS Reader for Digital Minimalists — Tool for Escaping the Doomscroll - paulilaaso/hys
Hys is a fast, lightweight, and opinionated terminal RSS reader written in Zig that helps you avoid doom-scrolling. It enforces a once-per-day fetch limit, encouraging you to gather new information in a single daily batch like a morning newspaper, rather than receive an endless stream of pings and notifications throughout the day. hys --sub " https://news.ycombinator.com/rss " hys Installation (macOS/Linux/Windows) Prerequisites Zig 0.16.0 : For building from source. Install instructions libcurl : Robust HTTP/2 and TLS support. Install via your package manager: macOS: Pre-installed (no action needed) Ubuntu/Debian: sudo apt-get install libcurl4-openssl-dev Fedora: sudo dnf install…from github.com
In the maker’s words, at launch
Well, I certainly tried. I had to, because it has a certain quirk inspired by "digital minimalism." The quirk is that it only allows you to fetch new articles once per day (or X days). Why? Let me explain... I want my internet content to be like a boring newspaper. You get it in the morning, and you read the whole…
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