Ask HN: What are some keywords you track everyday?

[frozencell]

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]

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

[klysm]

Including this?

[KoenDG]

One of those things I wouldn't have thought to look for.

Neat to look over these threads every now and then.

[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.

[canadiantim]

Do you have a name for your project or is any of it accessible to others? Have you automated parts of it? Always thought about doing something similar but never got around to it

[lalwanivikas]

How/where do you track keywords?

[LeonTheremin]

Web scraping that creates RSS feeds for any page with CSS selectors.

[lothar_m]

This ^

[suranyami]

"Alcubierre": to track progress on warp drives

[mkl]

You track that every day? How much daily progress is there on something that will likely remain impossible forever?

[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"

[xmonkee]

Okay I need to know what's with the jesus laughing thing?

[scottmcdot]

You might want to add "humour" to those variations too.

[silisili]

Thanks for the tip. I've been on the internet for nearly 30 years, used Google since inception, and this is the first time I've heard of Google Alerts or even knew it was a thing!

[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.

[lazyweb]

Interesting! Have the sale alerts ever netted you something of interest? I imagine one could have a decent side business flipping goods.

[_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 :)

[klysm]

Wouldn’t stuff like that end up as a CVE?

[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

[mosselman]

YouTube provides an RSS feed for channels.

An example:

https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCq6nWQ3...

[sainib]

Names of Top competitors of ours

[echelon]

Why not just focus on you?

[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