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Re: Show HN: HN Notifications – Get an email when a HN story matches your criteria

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Post by fit2rule »

I quite like the way this server is designed in a fashion that I can just run it myself - not requiring that I give my email address to any unknown third-party. I just took a look at the go code and its very easy to understand, very easy to build, and quite easy to deploy. Kudo's to the authors for making it open source - it means that I'm now running this locally as a service for my personal needs in finding new HN articles without much fuss! Great stuff!

Re: Show HN: HN Notifications – Get an email when a HN story matches your criteria

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Post by charlieegan3 »

I actually wrote something like this a while back for myself. I find it a pain to keep track of sites like this and reddit where it's not a linear feed, items move up and down, and you need to scan the entire homepage to check for new content. In the end I made this http://www.serializer.io as a simple tool to make it a linear feed that's easier for me to follow.

Re: Show HN: HN Notifications – Get an email when a HN story matches your criteria

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Post by ini »

onuryavuz wrote: post #2

I like it, just left my email and waiting to get my first notification! Kudos to you. Quick question : Do you search for the specified keywords in the title or in the link content ?

Thanks! The keywords are searched in the story title. The current (somewhat naive) approach simply splits the title by non letter/number characters, essentially getting rid of punctuation chars, symbols, etc

Re: Show HN: HN Notifications – Get an email when a HN story matches your criteria

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askmike wrote: post #3

One small thing: once you know an email address subscribed you can mailbomb it with unsubscribe links (you might want to throttle those / don't send them more than once).

Well spotted. Thanks for the feedback, I'll make sure I fix this.

Re: Show HN: HN Notifications – Get an email when a HN story matches your criteria

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Post by onuryavuz »

ini wrote: post #6
onuryavuz wrote: post #2

I like it, just left my email and waiting to get my first notification! Kudos to you. Quick question : Do you search for the specified keywords in the title or in the link content ?

Thanks! The keywords are searched in the story title. The current (somewhat naive) approach simply splits the title by non letter/number characters, essentially getting rid of punctuation chars, symbols, etc

I see. Trying to detect keywords in an article could be nice improvement.

Another question, why did you limit the lower bound for the score w/ 200 ?

I assume you start indexing the HN submissions. In the long run you can create a context aware version of HN, e.g. 'Bring HN submissions with keyword X submitted during the last week.' This could be a brand new way to browse HN.

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