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Comment by karolist | Hacker News Reader

How come you found this post and commented on it so quickly, do you have some sort of search scanning frontpage for terms of interest or was it by chance? Curious

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I got that HN gaaaame

Huh? I check Hacker News multiple times a day - it's not odd to click on an article within an hour of it being posted.

It's not the first time I saw an article posted and then an expert in the field comment on it rather quickly, I thought I may be missing something how other people use this site, had no negative intentions asking this and thanks for the answer ;)

HN has an RSS feed [0] so there's no need to keep refreshing or make the rounds of this and other sites that have interesting information.

I have my own feed setup with sites I like to frequent [1].

[0] https://hackaday.com/blog/feed/

[1] https://mechaelephant.com/feed

what software did you use for your own feed?

Various scripts in python, shell and javascript [0].

[0] https://github.com/abetusk/www.mechaelephant.com/tree/releas...

thanks! I'm currently looking at the files

how did you filter which posts appear in the feed?

EDIT: I was able to make it work, I replaced the node module xmltojson with xq (python lib available from pip)

https://static.nani-so.re/feed/ many thanks!

Awesome!

There's an RSS feed https://news.ycombinator.com/rss

Some people set up something like a Google Search Alert for terms about them or their writings, etc.

Also, a lot of subject matter experts hang out here so it just happens a lot :)

https://f5bot.com is a way to get an email notification when a keyword is mentioned

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