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You can also follow individual user comments with RSS with some quick mods

Can you elaborate on how the mod works?

I fed the custom hn.algolia.com search to something that made it into an RSS feed. So if I wanted to get an RSS feed of all of pg's comments, you could use this as the source link:

http://hn.algolia.com/#!/story/sort_by_date/prefix/0/author%...

Then I made a custom yahoo pipe to create an RSS feed, taking a username as a parameter:

http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=b5d191396ff8e04acd...

I had the same need, but didn't want to use Yahoo! pipes, so I submitted a small patch:

https://github.com/algolia/hn-search/pull/27

Taking that one step further, you can convert RSS to NNTP via http://gwene.org/

This is awesome and brought a big smile to my face! Some questions:

- Is trn still the most awesome news reader? It's been a while since I've used NNTP.

- Does gwene.org still update? Every feed I found in the search results was last updated in March 2014 :(

- Apart from RSS->NNTP being cool, is there any real situation in which I'd want to use this?

The Algolia HN search app supports RSS feeds directly:

http://hn.algolia.com/userfeed/rahimnathwani

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