I Brought Google Reader and Yahoo Pipes Back From the Dead with AI at it's core!

Description and use

<p><em>This is a submission for the <a href="https://dev.to/challenges/hacktoberfest-week4-2026-10-26">Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 4: Ghost in the Machine</a></em></p> <p>Google Reader closed in 2013. Yahoo Pipes closed in 2015. Nothing has replaced either of them, and I have been quietly annoyed about it ever since.</p> <p>Reader was the calm inbox: unread counts, stars, <code>j</code> and <code>k</code>, no algorithm deciding what I saw. Pipes was the clever one: drag a few boxes onto a canvas, wire them together, and get a brand-new feed out the other end. Both were killed b

Problem

<p><em>This is a submission for the <a href="https://dev.to/challenges/hacktoberfest-week4-2026-10-26">Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 4: Ghost in the Machine</a></em></p> <p>Google Reader closed in 2013. Yahoo Pipes closed in 2015. Nothing has replaced either of them, and I have been quietly annoyed about it ever since.</p> <p>Reader was the calm inbox: unread counts, stars, <code>j</code> and <code>k</code>, no algorithm deciding what I saw. Pipes was the clever one: drag a few boxes onto a canvas, wire them together, and get a brand-new feed out the other end. Both were killed b

Outcome

<p><em>This is a submission for the <a href="https://dev.to/challenges/hacktoberfest-week4-2026-10-26">Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 4: Ghost in the Machine</a></em></p> <p>Google Reader closed in 2013. Yahoo Pipes closed in 2015. Nothing has replaced either of them, and I have been quietly annoyed about it ever since.</p> <p>Reader was the calm inbox: unread counts, stars, <code>j</code> and <code>k</code>, no algorithm deciding what I saw. Pipes was the clever one: drag a few boxes onto a canvas, wire them together, and get a brand-new feed out the other end. Both were killed b

Evidence

I Brought Google Reader and Yahoo Pipes Back From the Dead with AI at it's core!

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