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AI · April 26, 2012

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Smart Reader - native RSS reading app that suggests interesting news

We all use different kinds of RSS feed readers to fetch news, but as the number of feeds we subscribe to grows, we may wake up to 400+ news items every morning, but very few RSS feed readers can suggest to us what to read first. Smart Reader is a Windows RSS reading app that has a built-in machine learning algorithm for suggesting interesting news. It learns by user's labeling of what news are interesting to them, and as the learning progresses, it will start suggesting among the user's subscribed feeds what it thinks the user might find interesting to read first. Smart Reader also tries to…

Smart Reader - native RSS reading app that suggests interesting news launched on April 26, 2012 with 5 votes, #171 of 446 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was not reachable when checked in September 2026.

What it does

In the maker’s words, at launch

We all use different kinds of RSS feed readers to fetch news, but as the number of feeds we subscribe to grows, we may wake up to 400+ news items every morning, but very few RSS feed readers can suggest to us what to read first. Smart Reader is a Windows RSS reading app that has a built-in machine learning algorithm…

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