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Ask HN: What are some keywords you track everyday?
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#63* 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.
That's a good point, but actually not how I use the alert. I only use the alert so I can get deals for myself. It's usually clothing or home goods stores that show up on those alerts, and I have definitely got plenty of good stuff for super cheap, so it's of interest to me at least.
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#64https://www.google.com/alerts
"AI Test Kitchen App"
"personal A.I."
AI, LaMDA
(my personal email address)
geomagnetic, pulse, magnetic, field, pole
Ilya Lichtenstein
jack maller
paragraf
solar, flare, sun, storm, strong, severe, extreme
Re: Ask HN: What are some keywords you track everyday?
#65I get an email from https://f5bot.com/ every few weeks when someone mentions https://curlconverter.com/ on HN or Reddit
One of those things I wouldn't have thought to look for.
Neat to look over these threads every now and then.
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#66"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?
I don't track it EVERY DAY, obviously. Just have keyword searches on Google Alerts.
And yes, if you were talking 10 years ago, when I started that keyword search, Alcubierre drives were seen as "not implementable even if we could use all the energy in the universe and it would have to be exotic matter with negative mass".
That's since been refined to "Only implementable with all the energy contained in a solar system, but still needing negative mass" about 5 years ago and then "Implementable with the energy contained in a gas-giant planet, like Jupiter, and not needing negative mass exotic matter".
So, you know, maybe not remain impossible forever?
There seems to be slow-but-steady progress happening over the decade scale, and I'm happy to be alerted to that when it happens.
The only downside to Google Alerts with this is that there are a lot of pop-science sites that trot out a "warp drives: might they be real?" article whenever it's a slow news week where they get an intern to gather up a bunch of links from wikipedia and google and regurgitate it into generic meaningless content. I don't have an answer for how to weed out those false positives. Keywords are a poor tool for the job here.