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thanks adam
by hellojohnbuck 11mo ago
thanks adam
- pinkmuffinere 11mo agoHey John, I'm just curious how people find these comments about "would be nice if X saw this" on HN. I don't think there's any pinging behavior. Did somebody message you? Did you just happen to read it? Do you have an eldritch curse that summons you when called by name?
- throwaway314155 11mo agoNot who you're asking for, but generally I think it's just a case of the author also being an HN regular. Although, I suppose you could set up some Google Alerts for mentions of your blog posts.
- hellojohnbuck 11mo agoSomebody subscribed to my blog with ref to hacker news so i just poked my head in :-)
- shawn_w 11mo agoOnce upon a time there was a guy who went by Kibo who would search Usenet feeds for posts mentioning his username and reply to them...
- wiredfool 11mo agoKibo greps
- Cthulhu_ 11mo agoI bet Musk hacked something together (or has a column in TweetDeck if that's still around) that continuously searches for mentions. I wonder if there's a tool like that that covers more of the internet, although the primary users would only be famous people and/or their agents / social media staff.
- wongarsu 11mo agoThere are lots of tools that do this if you are willing to pay for it. "Social Media Monitoring" or "Brand Monitoring" would be the keywords to search for
- arthurdelerue 10mo agoYou can try our tool for example: https://KWatch.io https://KWatch.io It monitors keywords mentioned on X, Linkedin, Facebook, Youtube, Quora, Reddit, and YC.
- davedx 11mo agoFrom what I've seen, sometimes people see that their blog post got a lot of referral traffic from Hacker News and they come have a look to see where it came from.
- kens 11mo agoI use f5bot.com, which monitors HN, Reddit, and Lobsters. (I have no connection to f5bot except being a happy user.)
- phibz 11mo agoI've seen Ken Shirriff do this. You mention him and suddenly he's there.
- kens 11mo agohi! :-) As I commented elsewhere, f5bot.com is a nice, free tool to monitor HN