I consume HN almost exclusively through RSS. hnrss.org offers many options for customizing your feed, including whether you want to link to the linked website or the comments page and many others...
Ask HN: What's the fastest way to get updated on what's trending on Hacker News?
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#22hckrnews: https://hckrnews.com
If you use Telegram, subscribe to the Hacker News Feed channel (top stories with 100+ points). [1]
Re: Ask HN: What's the fastest way to get updated on what's trending on Hacker News?
#23hnrss.org with a filter for points.
https://hnrss.org/newest?points=500
I read the newest posts as they reach 500 upvotes delivered to my RSS reader (feedbin).
Re: Ask HN: What's the fastest way to get updated on what's trending on Hacker News?
#24Just the normal RSS feed on my rss reader
Re: Ask HN: What's the fastest way to get updated on what's trending on Hacker News?
#25I created an IFTTT workflow. Whenever there is a post that's gaining traction on Hackernews I get a notification on my Slack. I use some Slack features to remind me of it later if i am busy, also Pin somethings or Star.
I was looking for something like this. Any idea whether IFTTT expose some api where i can create custom hooks for some other personal applications may be like android app?
Not sure about the API, I just used whatever was currently available. I am sure there might be someplace on IFTTTs api - https://platform.ifttt.com/docs this may be a good place to start.
Re: Ask HN: What's the fastest way to get updated on what's trending on Hacker News?
#26I created an IFTTT workflow. Whenever there is a post that's gaining traction on Hackernews I get a notification on my Slack. I use some Slack features to remind me of it later if i am busy, also Pin somethings or Star.
How do you define "gaining traction"?
TLDR: Its a mystery to me. I don’t know where HN is sending this from!
This is how my workflow looks like if ‘top story on HN’ then ‘slack me’ Now when I created this workflow, I was expecting to get results when something hits the front page-top news but what I saw was—it giving me news with even 2 upvotes sometimes and that thing wasn’t even there on the first page. Honestly it’s a mystery to me. In fact I even tried comparing ‘new section’ with the results I was receiving and they didn’t match! You can check this on IFTTT hackernews just select top news when creating your workflow. Also what I realized was these news hit the top section a while later the notifications-not all but a lot.