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Comment by punnerud | Hacker News Reader

The Cloudflare CTO is often on HN to answer questions. Last was a couple of hours ago.

I asked him if he had HN alerts, and this was his answer: “I have code that monitors Hacker News comments for mentions of various things (including cloudflare, my username). It runs once a minute and uses https://hn.algolia.com/ to find new comments. (..)”

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=jgrahamc

A CTO that is this close to the users I see as a good sign.

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For anyone else that wants to do this.. RSS + hnrss.org with search queries

It was their CTO who said that. Their CEO is on paternity leave.

Just corrected it. Thanks

Yes, but still checking Hacker News.

JGC is one of my favourite people.

You wouldn’t say that if you saw me at 0630 after a bad night’s sleep :-)

I suppose that is universal though.

HN and Algolia should block his script with captchas.

Why?

Scraping protection. Advanced anti-bot measures. Defending them in CF thread is usually popular on HN, I'm shocked I'm losing my karma here.

You’re not listing reasons why a user should be blocked from knowing when they are (or their project is) talked about.

he's cto, ceo is eastdakota

if i remember correctly he can be also seen here too

Yeah, they're both frequent posters, though I see jgc here more often in general (or just notice him more often, perhaps).

I’m here. Just got to finish today’s Wordle first.

What score did you get?

Nice.

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