HACKER Q&A
📣 joering2

Service or tool where I can follow HN-ers?


I found myself enjoying reading comments from people only to realize that most of the time its the same people over and over again. Is there any sort of "HN follow" tool or service, where I can receive daily/weekly email with all the comments made by Hacker News users I "follow" ?

  👤 mindcrime Accepted Answer ✓
Not by default, but you could cobble together something yourself pretty easily. You can see a given user's comments using something like:

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=joering2

There's also an older thread that mentions somebody implementing something like this using the hnrss service, but I'm not sure if that's even still up or not.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25058236

👤 kennethko
You could setup an RSS reader with hnrss[0] to follow a particular user's posts and comments. This has been working pretty well for my own purposes. From there, the frequency of your updates should be configurable by whatever RSS reader you choose.

[0] https://hnrss.github.io/#user-feeds

👤 rolph
example URL:

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=joering2

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=FOLLOWEDUSER

you can write a cron to step through a list of usernames ; pack each one into a URL; scrape it and do a sendmail