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HackerNews-Alerts-Bot
Python2022–2026
lawxls / HackerNews-Alerts-Bot

HackerNews-Alerts-Bot

Telegram bot for all kinds of notifications from Hacker News

2Distinct people
13Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
55GitHub stars
REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

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What it is

Telegram bot for all kinds of notifications from Hacker News

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by year13 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2022-12-14 13:35:23 UTC to 2026-04-24 22:40:31 UTC.

02468102022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments20222023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 9 mentions; 1 submissions, 8 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments20242025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

* An incomplete calendar period is marked with an outlined bar. Its count is not directly comparable with a full period.

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

View mention counts and date ranges
UTC ranges include their start and exclude their end. Select a period to filter the source evidence.
PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC918
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

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There have been quite a few of them over the years in varying degrees of complexity. I think the most well-known one is probably HN Replies. A simple Github search returns the following results. HN Notifier https://github.com/meanands/hn-notifier Hacker New Telegram Bot https://github.com/lawxls/HackerNews-Alerts-Bot HN Reply Notifier https://github.com/lotsofnoise/hn-reply-notifier And there have been Show HNs on them as well. Show HN: I built an open-source notification inbox widget for Hacker News https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36373123 Show HN: HN Reader – Track your conversations across Hacker News https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46240221 I (and probably a lot of other HN users) built my own bespoke HN suite that notifies me on replies, stories that I might be interested in, etc. It just sits quietly on a VPS and sends mes
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sages to me over Signal. Never open-sourced it because the code is a dire abomination. Yours is probably the first Chrome side-panel variation that I've seen though.
In Show HN: HNswered – watches for replies to your Hacker News posts and comments

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