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rkalla / hnnotify

hnnotify

HN Notify

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HN Notify

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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, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by month3 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2016-08-15 15:53:23 UTC to 2018-01-04 19:41:17 UTC.

012016-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsAug 20162016-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsApr 20172017-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2017-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsJan 2018

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

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
Aug 20162016-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-09-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Sep 20162016-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-10-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 20162016-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-11-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 20162016-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-12-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 20162016-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-02-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 20172017-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-03-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 20172017-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-04-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 20172017-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-05-01 00:00:00 UTC000
May 20172017-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-06-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 20172017-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-07-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 20172017-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-08-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Aug 20172017-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-09-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 20172017-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-10-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 20172017-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-11-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 20172017-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-12-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 20172017-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-02-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

3 sources
miles·Jul 13, 2017
HNWatcher[1] appears to offer something close: "Follow keywords, users, karma, domains on Hacker News". The first HN notification system I learned of and used was HN Notify[2,3] by Riyad of The Buzz Media[4]. I've been using edavis' hnrss.org[5] of late; it "provides custom, realtime RSS feeds for Hacker News", including for user posts and comments. A quick search just now turned up dangrossman's HN Replies[6,7] and a few other monitoring options[8]. But in this case, it was indeed steanne's kind email that alerted me to the HN post. [1] https://www.hnwatcher.com [2] https://web.archive.org/web/20120103200449/http://hnnotify.c... [3] https://github.com/rkalla/hnnotify [4] https://web.archive.org/web/20120119135841/http://www.thebuz... [5] https://edavis.github.io/hnrss/ [6] http://hnreplies.com [7] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=110
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80539 [8] https://www.google.com/search?q=hacker+news+comment+notifica...
In Tiny Apps
rkalla·Aug 15, 2016
UPDATE URL https://github.com/rkalla/hnnotify My apologies for taking so long to make this available after retiring the site. If anyone is interesting, here it is. It's a Play 1.x app with Mongo 2.6.x sitting behind it. The interesting bits are the Jobs that run discovering, indexing, reconciling and mailing notifications: https://github.com/thebuzzmedia/hnnotify/tree/master/app/job... and the JSoup-based Parser (thank god for JSoup): https://github.com/thebuzzmedia/hnnotify/blob/master/app/par... If anyone would like to take this and relaunch the server, please feel free - it's completely self-sustaining... if it wasn't for 2 botched OS upgrades in the ~6 years it was running I don't think I ever needed to do anything with the server. It just ran. Logs are incredibly verbose to make troubleshooting easier... watch the disk space - if an
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ything does go wrong you can simply kill it and relaunch and it will pickup where it left off. The only problem I had was running out of disk space and getting blocked by Gmail by too many daily outbound mails... other than that, set it and forget it.
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