The Techmeme RSS feed lives at https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml, and you can paste that address into any feed reader to get Techmeme's headlines as they are posted. For the lighter side of the same news, add a browser tab for TechTwitter IO, a free satirical paper of tech Twitter that has no feed of its own.
Here is how to set it up and what you get.
Step 1: copy the feed address
Techmeme advertises its feed in the page head of its home page, so most readers find it if you paste techmeme.com and let them search. If yours does not, use the full address above. The feed's own description reads "Top news and commentary for technology's leaders, from all around the web."
Step 2: add it to your reader
Every common feed reader has an "add feed" or "subscribe" box. Paste the address, give it a folder if you sort feeds by topic, and save. Command-line readers work the same way: add the URL to the feed list in their config file and refresh.
If you would rather script it, the feed is plain RSS 2.0. Each item has a title, a link and a description, so a few lines in any language can pull the latest headlines into a terminal, a chat channel or a status bar.
Step 3: know what an item looks like
Each feed item is one Techmeme headline. The title carries the headline followed by the author and publication in parentheses, so you can see at a glance whose report it is. The link points to the item's permalink on Techmeme, where you will find the full cluster of related coverage and posts. The description holds the summary text and the link to the original report.
| Field | What it holds |
|---|---|
| title | Headline, then author and outlet in parentheses |
| link | Techmeme permalink for the story |
| description | Summary with a link to the original article |
| pubDate | When the item was posted |
Step 4: add the podcast feed if you listen
Techmeme's home page also links a second feed, for the Techmeme Ride Home podcast, at https://feeds.feedburner.com/TechmemeRideHome. Add it to a podcast app rather than a news reader.
Step 5: add the funny version as a tab
A feed is good at telling you what happened. It is less good at making a long day of launches, layoffs and outages feel lighter. That is where TechTwitter IO comes in. It is a satirical newspaper, laid out in sections such as Markets, Launches, Incident Report and Opinion, that jokes about the week's tech stories, often embedding the real post and linking its source before adding the punchline.
TechTwitter IO does not publish an RSS feed at the time of writing, so treat it as a tab you open once a day. If you prefer a push, sign in with Google or X on the site and it will ping you when a new edition drops. Missed editions sit in the paper's back-issue archive.
Keep the two apart
The feed in your reader is news. TechTwitter IO is satire: its footer says that unless a post links to its source, the people, posts and quotes are parody or invented. Do not pipe the joke paper into the same channel as real headlines, or someone on your team will repost a made-up quote as fact.
When the feed is not enough
If you want the full ranked page, with related links and the events calendar, open Techmeme itself. The feed gives you headlines; the site gives you context. And if you want a daily summary in your inbox instead, Techmeme also runs a newsletter that recaps the past 24 hours.
For most developers the best setup is simple: Techmeme in the reader for facts, TechTwitter IO in a tab for the jokes and the daily puzzles.