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Another tool for this is https://www.hnreplies.com/

Been using that one for years, works great.

Also emails you less than 60 seconds after they make the comment.

Also https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-notifi...

That extensions essentially hands over control of your HN account to some internet stranger. It's a little bit better described in the store now than it used to be although I'm surprised the chrome store allows this kind of thing at all.

Shouldn't be a surprise, chrome extensions are still the wild west.

Been on this for too many years to count now, it almost feels like an official HN feature, has always been 100% solid.

I haven’t gotten any reply notifications since may… am I the only one?

It works for me.

thanks for feedback.. I definitely also didn't get the email for this response... maybe I'll sign up again or something.

I was notified about this response, so seems okay for me. It may be a problem with email deliverability with your provider. I notice they use Sendgrid to send the mails, so if your address is on a commercial system using Mimecast or a lot of popular French email services, say, then you're probably out of luck. Sendgrid IP ranges seem to have a poor rep at various places, annoyingly. (Edit: I note you're on Protonmail, which doesn't usually have a problem, but might be worth resubbing.)

Appreciate the suggestion — I resubbed earlier today with a slightly different email address (dot alias) and emails are coming through again!

I recommend this too. I tried an alternate browser notification based solution as it was showed on HN[1] but it doesn't seem to handle HN traffic as I received notifications weeks later.

[1]https://www.magicbell.com/ (This seems to be their main product, Couldn't find the HN page).

I did something like this a couple months ago with RSS, it was one of the most stressful experiences ever. I realized that one of the things I liked is that HN was something I had to deliberately visit, not get lured into with notifications.

Make sure to use a masked email address if you don’t want your email linked to your HN handle, in the event the DB is leaked.

Thank you tmtd! I'm not too concerned about it personally but as usual, you offer excellent advice sir, madame, or they.

Came here looking for this comment

And for those that want to self host an RSS feed for a feed reader: https://gist.github.com/Q726kbXuN/15e61acc003bb6d46a458001fe...

Badass idea, thanks giraffe banana!

I actually like the fact that I don't get notified. It means I only check if I care, and the desire for validation and approval is less of a motivation to engage in discussion here. When people don't get notified they tend to only talk when they actually have something to say.

Looks nice! In the same vein but for those who already use a feed reader, I can recommend hnrss.org

I'm still looking for something that notifies me when someone else posts or comments. Twitter followees for HN. I used to have an app that did that, 10 years ago.

I also made a Telegram bot for HN replies:

https://t.me/hn_replies_bot

I've posted this before but nobody seems to like it, do people here not use Telegram?

I do and didn't know about this. Thanks

I believe that people just don’t want to hand out their TG accounts. BTW, what is the meaning of the bot’s profile picture?

I don't remember why I made it that, I think it's simply just "a reply to the letter Y".

Is there a tool that can watch HN for links to (or mentions of) projects one has?

For my own websites, I could run a notifier daemon checking server logs for spikes from referrer domains. But that doesn't work for code hosting sites like GitHub.

This functionality is already covered by https://www.hnreplies.com/ which I have just learned is maintained not by dang but by dangrossman

dang is Daniel Gackle. Dan Grossman is https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=dangrossman . The Dan Gs on HN are dang common.

TIL, thanks for the correction

Wow, this comment made me realise that his username is "dan g" not "dang". I had a mental image of him as someone who was always polite but slightly annoyed.

I think there are times both can be true, but only very rarely, and only because dang is human. ;)

(And that only applies to the “annoyed” aspect. His politeness is pretty dang constant.)

The real strategy is never reading replies.

Why? What does it accomplish if you never connect with another human being or cyborg?

One of the most wonderful aspects of HN is when another person replies to continue the thread, instead of the original commenter. Much better than a deep tree of comments dominated by the original commenter, ugggh.

That said, I do think it is important to calibrate the quality of one’s own comments by looking at how others respond.

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