Ask HN: What are some keywords you track everyday? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What are some keywords you track everyday?

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Post by hjkl0 » Sun, Jul 24, 2022, 8:01 PM UTC

mkl wrote: post #31

suranyami wrote: post #5

"Alcubierre": to track progress on warp drives

You track that every day? How much daily progress is there on something that will likely remain impossible forever?

FWIW, seems perfectly reasonable to have keyword tracking for something that has very little activity.

I understood this to be asking about something like a Google alert. I could have one for my name, even if it never gets any hits.

The daily part doesn’t really matter much, unless by “tracking” you mean “manually searching”.

Re: Ask HN: What are some keywords you track everyday?

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Post by lothar_m » Sun, Jul 24, 2022, 11:02 PM UTC

lalwanivikas wrote: post #8

How/where do you track keywords?

This ^

Re: Ask HN: What are some keywords you track everyday?

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Post by LeonTheremin » Mon, Jul 25, 2022, 12:40 AM UTC

lalwanivikas wrote: post #8

How/where do you track keywords?

Web scraping that creates RSS feeds for any page with CSS selectors.

Re: Ask HN: What are some keywords you track everyday?

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Post by scottmcdot » Mon, Jul 25, 2022, 2:17 AM UTC

timoteostewart wrote: post #17

I use Google Alerts. It's decent enough I suppose. Checking, it looks like I currently have 27 alerts reflecting various interests and avocations: "blend|portmanteau words" "bryan garner" modern usage "christian jargon" "christian platitudes" "christian slang" "christian-ese" "christianease" "christianese dictionary" "dictionary of christianese" "humor in the bible" "humor of Jesus" "jesus laughing" "jesus sense of h…

You might want to add "humour" to those variations too.

Re: Ask HN: What are some keywords you track everyday?

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Post by verhovsky » Mon, Jul 25, 2022, 2:25 AM UTC

klysm wrote: post #38

verhovsky wrote: post #32

I get an email from https://f5bot.com/ every few weeks when someone mentions https://curlconverter.com/ on HN or Reddit

Including this?

It emailed me my comment, yea

Re: Ask HN: What are some keywords you track everyday?

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Post by defrost » Mon, Jul 25, 2022, 2:49 AM UTC

canadiantim wrote: post #50

defrost wrote: post #34

I routinely pull "Technical Report" PDF's from https://www.sedar.com/new_docs/all_new_pc_filings_en.htm and generate summaries. Eg: today Search Minerals Inc. released a Preliminary Economic Assessment on a rare earth project. That gets tied into a GIS database of other projects along with timelines, tonnages, etc.

Do you have a name for your project or is any of it accessible to others? Have you automated parts of it? Always thought about doing something similar but never got around to it

Call it my "at home" continuation of a project I worked on 14+ years ago, now licenced and onsold to S&P Global as [1].

There's also a component of tracking every mineral related lease globally ( ~1.3 million in Canada alone) and tying those into public releases on the Canadian, London, New York, South African, Australian, etc exchanges .. and a fair bit of legwork in China, Russia, elsewhere.

[1] https://www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence/en/campaigns/met...

Re: Ask HN: What are some keywords you track everyday?

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Post by timoteostewart » Mon, Jul 25, 2022, 2:50 AM UTC

scottmcdot wrote: post #54

timoteostewart wrote: post #17

I use Google Alerts. It's decent enough I suppose. Checking, it looks like I currently have 27 alerts reflecting various interests and avocations: "blend|portmanteau words" "bryan garner" modern usage "christian jargon" "christian platitudes" "christian slang" "christian-ese" "christianease" "christianese dictionary" "dictionary of christianese" "humor in the bible" "humor of Jesus" "jesus laughing" "jesus sense of h…

You might want to add "humour" to those variations too.

Good call!

Re: Ask HN: What are some keywords you track everyday?

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Post by t0bia_s » Mon, Jul 25, 2022, 8:20 AM UTC

LeonTheremin wrote: post #53

lalwanivikas wrote: post #8

How/where do you track keywords?

Web scraping that creates RSS feeds for any page with CSS selectors.

For example?

Re: Ask HN: What are some keywords you track everyday?

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Post by t0bia_s » Mon, Jul 25, 2022, 8:25 AM UTC

dvh wrote: post #49

t6jvcereio wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because the person you're responding to is Russian and wants to keep an eye on how the invasion is going.

I'm not Russian, I'm Slovak. Before the war Putin was on the list but I removed him because I want to hear when that monster finally dies.

What about kotleba, caputova, babis...?

Re: Ask HN: What are some keywords you track everyday?

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Post by lazyweb » Mon, Jul 25, 2022, 9:05 AM UTC

unknownsky wrote: post #45

* clearance sale $myTown * closing sale $myTown * going out of business sale $myTown * everything must go $myTown * loft apartment wood beams $neighbourhoodWhereIWantToLive * $myGrandmasName $warThatMyGrandmaFoughtIn The last one is because my grandma's service was significant enough that sometimes articles and blog posts are made about her, but a lot of the information gets fabricated or twisted in order to create a…

Interesting! Have the sale alerts ever netted you something of interest? I imagine one could have a decent side business flipping goods.