cloudflare-cors-anywhere

One year after I published https://HackYourNews.com, I've rewritten it to be fully client-side and added support for a few more news sources via RSS feeds. Though HackYourNews.com v1 had a great response on HN [1] and consistently had ~2k weekly unique visitors, I couldn't figure out how to sustain the site, and I didn't want to gate access to it. There were also many long-standing requests that I wanted to fulfill (thanks for your patience!): a proper auto-detected dark mode, mobile device support, and bulleted summaries. This rewrite is the result. The browser reads the contents of destination pages via a CORS proxy [2], distills the raw HTML down to page content, and uses the excellent Puter [3] to call gpt-4o-mini for chunked summarization and title dehyping. Overall, the rewrite is slower because the summarization is on-demand, but t

Yes, unfortunately if the "foreign" sources don't support CORS, you'd have to use a CORS proxy... If you want to self-host, there's one at https://github.com/Zibri/cloudflare-cors-anywhere that can be deployed to CloudFlare Workers (the code is a bit messy though). GitHub supports CORS for raw data for example, that's why I put it in the sample queries.

You could probably add cloudflare workers as an option. There's an example CORS friendly proxy here: https://github.com/Zibri/cloudflare-cors-anywhere Guessing normal use would fit in their free plan.

You should be able to do this with a third party service such as https://fixtur.es/en/team/philadelphia-union I route my remote calendars through Cloudflare workers for a modicum of privacy. It's as simple as running a basic open source relay and prepending the worker URL: https://github.com/Zibri/cloudflare-cors-anywhere

Github: https://github.com/Zibri/cloudflare-cors-anywhere