[serialNumber]

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.

[karolist]

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 ;)

[abetusk]

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

[tsukurimashou]

what software did you use for your own feed?

[abetusk]

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

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

[tsukurimashou]

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

[abetusk]

Awesome!

[tsukurimashou]

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)

[robertlacok]

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

[pests]

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 :)

[n_plus_1_acc]

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