[epaga]

Oh? I've seen him respond to that many times in the past...assumed he had some hook for those.

[altairprime]

No, he just reads HN like we do

Sometimes users email him links to them

I stopped doing that after one guy said “why shouldn’t I use @dang when you’ll just send an email for me”

If you want dang to see your comment and reply (and remember it’s dang/tomhow now), email a link to your comment to the mods using the footer contact link along with a note

[Barbing]

The Algolia-linkin’ king ain’t doing a Regex->notification thing, OK! Thank you

[zelphirkalt]

Maybe just does a search for it on some discussions here and finds them that way.

[rkomorn]

Correlation vs causation?

[epaga]

Well, maybe.