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📣 frozencell

What are some keywords you track everyday?


What are some keywords (ie. "gnu", "word embeddings", "parenting", `${your_country}`) you track everyday and do you only use HN or HNAlgolia to watch them?

I found keyword tracking as useful as keeping a RSS list.


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

👤 themodelplumber
Google Play Books...Keywords: Science, math, history, collection, classic, nuclear, atomic, pulp, cold war, cinema, Japan, North Korea, Soviet, comic, programming, Linux.

Settings: Use the app or this might not work. Set filter to Price Drops, usually constrained to $2 max for the first run. Make the deals come to you.

If you don't set it to filter for price drops there is a ton of noise with the signal, especially with classic texts.

Add to wishlist as you go. Then review later for purchasing. If there is anything looking amazing at first sight, buy it right then because the price drop sometimes disappears after you navigate away (!). Repeat until your library is full of amazing book deals with pretty covers and interesting titles...this works way better and faster IMO than shopping or browsing Kindle.

Realistically I search a different keyword every day and let a few days pass between same keyword searches.

For HN I have a different set of keywords but thought I'd share this since a lot of us are readers...


👤 dmor
This is a fun question, and makes me reflect on how little I play in novel or whimsical ways with search engines anymore. Came to this thread for some inspiration, I hope others will chime in

👤 defrost
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.


👤 lalwanivikas
How/where do you track keywords?

👤 suranyami
"Alcubierre": to track progress on warp drives

👤 beatthatflight
"flight sale". I'm constantly looking anyway and doing searches, but if some news outlet is reporting an Aussie-relevant one, I need to hop on that right away.

👤 timoteostewart
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 humor"

    "jesus's sense of humor"

    "lexicographer|lexicographers|lexicography|lexicographical"

    "mixed blessings" "tim stewart"

    "mixed blessings" dictionary stewart

    "portmanteaux|portmanteau|portmanteaus" blend words

    "terri bednarz" "humor in the gospels"

    “Did Jesus laugh”

    “Jesus laughed”

    “Tim Stewart” Christianese

    christianese

    evangelical.buzzword | christian.buzzword | church.buzzword | pentecostal.buzzword | emerging.church.buzzword | charismatic.buzzword | protestant.buzzword

    evangelical.cliché | christian.cliché | church.cliché | pentecostal.cliché | emerging.church.cliché | charismatic.cliché | protestant.cliché

    humor "hebrew bible"

    radday brenner comic "hebrew bible"

👤 unknownsky
* 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 narrative of a sexy femme fatale. When this happens, I like to show up and correct it.


👤 _9xrb
I used to have Google Alerts to scan for security/reliability news of my home's IoT products. Ultimately the firehose of blogspam and other false positives became too much. I then deleted the Google Alerts and got rid of most of my IoT products, which solved the problem.

If there's a low-volume mailing list out there for IoT security disclosures, I'd love to find it. Even better if users could sign up for the specific products they own. Could probably expand this to all kinds of software, hardware, etc... sign up with your specific model and/or version number, receive tailored alerts when urgent security/reliability news emerges. Sort of like "haveibeenpwned" but for all the software and devices in your life.

Sorry for the tangent, but I'm secretly hoping this already exists and someone will reply with a link, or someone else will get inspired and create it :)


👤 ars
When I hear of some new promising technology - a battery for example, search for it in Google News, setup an alert, and then forget about it.

I got this tip from someone on HN, I wish I remember who, but it's been great: I'm able to ignore 99% of the newly hyped technology without missing out.

I use it for new promising medical treatments as well.


👤 undebuggable
When feasible I subscribe to RSS feeds by keyword(s) e.g. job openings by technology and city, one feed to multiple subreddits grouped by topics. I'm in progress to curate some inspiring RSS feeds to HN and Stack Overflow.

👤 ksec
Mostly obscure things that dont have a massive interest or following. Other topics with more following tends to land on HN Front page or other form of social media feeds.

Crystal ( The Language )

JPEG XL

VVC ( The Video Codec )

CHERI ( Capability Hardware Enhanced RISC Instructions )


👤 golergka
> do you only use HN or HNAlgolia to watch them?

This hints that you mean keywords on HN and not on the entire web? I think the title should be updated to reflect this.


👤 BlameKaneda
I just started tracking the word "Autodromo" on the WatchRecon app---Autodromo's a watchmaker whose designs were inspired by Italian racecars. I'm interested in getting my hands on one of their Intereuropa watches, and because it was discontinued I'm hopeful that I can get it on a site like WatchRecon.

👤 kickaha
“emacs” and “org-mode”

👤 john-tells-all
I watch a few people on Hacker News, using hnapp.com to translate an author search into an RSS feed.

Example: Nick Janetakis has a ton of useful youtube videos:

http://hnapp.com/?q=author%3Anickjj


👤 sainib
Names of Top competitors of ours

👤 donclark
https://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


👤 joshu
not google but on craigslist cars: "lotus", "lancia", "scca", "roll cage", "engine swap", "drift", "formula"

👤 cratermoon
"nasa sls"

"gun violence"

Plus the name and relevant keywords of my employer, or, when I'm job hunting, prospective employers.

And my own name of course.

I use Google Alerts, but I'd love to find a better service.


👤 egberts1
“JavaScript malware” using Google Scholar and Google Alert.

👤 sharms
“Linux macOS” - love reading about desktops and workflows

👤 faebi
Google alert: my name, the names of familiy, friends and certain people. Also the village name I grew up in so I know what little going on there.

👤 xtiansimon
Just for completeness, I will mention the old saw—check the obituaries to see if your name is in it! Har-har

👤 akfaew
I run syften.com, I help people track keywords for a living.

Ask me anything!


👤 LeonTheremin
"Havana Syndrome"

"Microwave Weapon"

"Silent Speech" Interface


👤 eimrine
"Lisp"

👤 dvh
I don't have a keywords I look for, but I do have the opposite - a blacklist of words I block in my RSS reader for news sites. I only add word when it became obsession (by news sites, not by me) to a point that there are no longer news but only the topics the news are obsessed with. I read news to get, you know, news, not something that was beaten to death hundredths of times. So here's the blacklist:

529, 5g, 737 max, aboriginal, abortion, abortions, absentee, afghan, afghan interpreters, afghanistan, afghans, against asian, against asians, ahmaud arbery, amazon fire, amazon fires, amazon is burning, amazon is on fire, amazon rainforest, animal populations, anti-racism, anti-semitic, anti-vaxxer, anti-vaxxers, antibody, arctic, armenia, armenian, asian man, asian widow, asian woman, assisted dying, autism, autist, autistic, autists, azerbaijan, azerbaijan-armenia, azerbaijani, b.1.1.529, baffling neurological illness, ballot, baloch, banning nuclear, banning plastic, bannon, bans travel, barrier reef, batteries, battery, bed occupancy, begum, beheaded, beheading, beyond meat, biden, biological diversity, black lives, black man, black woman, blake shooting, blender, blm, bolsonaro, booster shot, booster shots, boris johnson, boy scouts, boys scouts, breonna, brexit, bushfires, butterflies, california fire, california fires, cambridge analytica, cancer, cannabis, carbon, carbon capture, cascadia, cbd, cbds, cdc, child pornography, child sexual abuse, china, china-india, chinese, chlorinated, circumcise, circumcision, circumcisions, civil war, climate, climate change, climate-change, confederate, contraception, contraceptives, conversion therapy, cop, cops, coral reef, corals, corona virus, coronal mass, coronavirus, counterprotests, covid, covid-19, covid-19-related, covid-negative, covid-positive, covid19, critical race theory, critically endangered, critically-endangered, cuomo, dailymail, david attenborough, ddt, dead calf, decriminalize, deforestation, delta, demonstrators, desalination, destroys planet, destruction of nature, die-off, digital currencies, digital currency, disease, djokovic, donate their organs, drought, drug resistant, drug-resistant, earthquake, earthquakes, ebola, eco disaster, ecosystem, educators, election, ellen page, elliot page, emissions, epstein, equal pay, ethiopia, euthanasia, extinction, extreme heat, extreme right, extreme-right, face masks, fascist, fascists, fauci, fda, female genial, female genital mutilation, fgm, flu, flying car, flying cars, fonseca, forced surgeries, fort hood, fossil fuels, free period products, free sanitary products, frozen land, fusion, gallons of oil, gay, gender, genocide, george floyd, ghislaine, glacial, glacier, global warming, glyphosate, golden dawn, gpt-2, gpt-3, graphene, greece extreme right, green hydrogen, greenland ice, greenland melting, guaranteed basic income, gulf stream, has mutated, hate group, hate groups, heat dome, heat domes, heat wave, heatwave, heatwaves, hemp, herd immunity, highest temperature, highest-ever temperature, hindu, hiv, homophobic, homosexual, homosexuality, hong kong, hospitalizations, hottest april, hottest august, hottest day, hottest decade, hottest december, hottest ever spring, hottest ever summer, hottest ever winter, hottest ever year, hottest february, hottest january, hottest july, hottest june, hottest march, hottest may, hottest november, hottest ocean, hottest october, hottest on record, hottest record, hottest september, hottest temperature, hottest year, huawei, hurricane, hurricanes, hurricanes, hydroxychloroquine, ice cap, ice detention, ice melt, ice sheet, ice sheets, ice shelf, iceberg, icu, ikea, illness, immigrant, immigrants, incel, incels, india-china, indigenous, inflation, influenza, insulin, iran, iranian, islamic, islamist, islamists, islamophobic, israel, israeli, jacob blake, juneteenth, kabul, kabul, karabach, karabakh, kenosha, khashoggi, kimberly guilfoyle, kremlin, kushner, l.g.b.t, lambda variant, land burns, laser fusion, lesbian, lgbt, lgbt, lgbtq, lgbtq+, lgbtqia, linkedin, lockdown, loneliness, lukashenko, magic mushrooms, magnitsky, mail sorting, mail-sorting, malaria, manafort's, marijuana, mask, masks, measles, melting glaciers, melting ice, melting of ice, menstrual, microplastics, migrant, migrants, migratory bird, migratory birds, miscarriages, mohamed, monkeypox, monsanto, mosque, mulan, mums, murder hornet, murder hornet, murder hornets, murdoch, muslim, muslims, mutant variant, myanmar, mysterious disease, mysterious illness, mysterious skin disease, mystery illness, n-word, n95, nabarima, nagorno-karabach, nagorno-karabakh, narcotics, navalnij, navalny, navid afkari, neanderthal, neanderthals, netanyahu, netanyahu, new drug, new variant, new variants, nft, no code, no-code, noon-consensual surgeries, north korea, north korean, north koreans, nuclear fusion, nuns, ocean circulation, ocean current, ocean currents, officer charged, officer's, oil drilling, oil spill, oil tanker, olympics, omicron, omicron-related, open-ai, openai, orcas, oxford attack, oxycontin, ozone hole, palestine, palestinian, palestinians, pandemic, pandora papers, pangolin, pangolins, paternity, pathogenic, pegasus, period poverty, permafrost, photovoltaic, photovoltaics, plague, planet is dying, plastic pollution, plastics, pneumonia, polar, police, polio, polluters, pollution, postal, postal union, postmaster, pregnancy, prince andrew, prince harry, protester's, protesters, protests, proud boy, proud boys, psilocybin, psychedelic, psychedelic-assisted, psychedelics, psyliosibin, puberty blocker, puberty blockers, qanon, qanon-backed, quakes, racism, ransomware, rape, raped, record temperature, record temperatures, refugee, refugees, remote workers, renewable, rents falls, right to repair, right-wing, rioters, riots, rittenhouse, rohingya's, rubella, same-sex, sars-cov-2, saudi, save nature, school reopening, school reopens, school shooting, school year, schools reopen, schools reopens, sea level rise, sec trafficking, sex abuse charges, sex assault, sex trafficker, sexism, sexual assault, sexual harassment, sexual-harassment, shamima, single use, single use plastic, single-use, smallpox, snowden, solar cell, solar flare, solar storm, solarwind, sold children, sollar cells, south africa, southern africa, species extinction, statue, statues, students kidnapped, subduction zone, subway, subway bread, supersonic airline, supervolcano, supremacist, supremacists, taliban, tampons, tampons and pads, temperature rise, temperatures in history, temple attack, test positive, tests positive, theranos, thunberg, tiger mosquito, tiger mosquitos, tigray, tigrayan, tigrayans, tiktok, time crystal, time crystals, toxic chemicals, trans, trans boy, trans boy, trans girl, trans girl, trans man, trans man, trans men, trans people, trans woman, trans woman, trans women, transfobia, transgender, trench fever, trump, tygray, tygrayan, u k variant, ubi, uighur, uighurs, uk variant, unemployment, unidentified disease, universal basic income, universal-basic-income, unmarked graves, unvaccinated, usps, uyghur, vaccinated, vaccination, vaccinations, vaccine, vaccines, variant, variant is spreading, venezuela, vertical farm, vertical farming, vertical farms, viral, virus, volcano, volcanoes, voting, war on nature, warmest on record, warming, water shortage, water shortages, waukesha, weather disasters, web3, whale, whales, wildfire, wildfires, wildlife, wooden satellite, world war ii bomb, ww2 bomb, wwf, xinjiang, zte


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