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Show HN: HN Mail – A topic-based newsletter service for Hacker News

27 points by desmonding 8y ago

desmonding 8y ago
Hello HN, Hacker News is a wonderful source of information which continues to inspire me to explore and learn. Given tons of posts are created everyday, sometimes it could be difficult to keep up with stories that I’m interested in, wouldn’t it be great to be able to collect and digest stories regularly based on my own interests? To solve this problem, I built a “smart” weekly newsletter service which delivers HN content based on topics/keywords. I find it pretty useful to me, so I want to share it with you guys in case you need it.
- jaha 8y ago
  Great project! The hot topics tags/link are not working.
  - desmonding 8y ago
    Is it working now? It should open HN Algolia search page.
    - SpecialistEMT 8y ago
      It works
ryanjshaw 8y ago
This might be very helpful. Will subscribing to 'blockchain' get me everything from 'bitcoin'? How are topics identified, seeing as HN doesn't have native tagging?
- desmonding 8y ago
  Not necessarily. Currently a topic is simply the keyword when you do search on HN powered by Algolia.
soulclap 8y ago
Looks interesting. Does the 'hot topics' section list all available tags or are there more? When choosing tags, it would help if I could see which tags you're giving to specific stories on HN.
- desmonding 8y ago
  Only top 50 tags are displayed. At this moment, a tag/topic is simply the keyword when you do search on HN. I agree it’s going to be more helpful to choose tags if it shows related stories.
SpecialistEMT 8y ago
Is there a list of keywords possible or can i input anything?
- desmonding 8y ago
  You can input anything you want, but it’s recommended to use keywords that show up frequently in HN titles.
mkbkn 8y ago
I have set up an IFTTT recipe that emails me whenever a new content is created on HN, based on the keyword(s) chosen by me. And it mails on the same day. Worked perfectly so far. But I'll give yours a try too. :)
- desmonding 8y ago
  This is a clever idea! To check new content, there would be some kind of service checking HN posts repeatedly I suppose?

27 points by desmonding 8y ago

Hello HN, Hacker News is a wonderful source of information which continues to inspire me to explore and learn. Given tons of posts are created everyday, sometimes it could be difficult to keep up with stories that I’m interested in, wouldn’t it be great to be able to collect and digest stories regularly based on my own interests? To solve this problem, I built a “smart” weekly newsletter service which delivers HN content based on topics/keywords. I find it pretty useful to me, so I want to share it with you guys in case you need it.

jaha 8y ago
Great project! The hot topics tags/link are not working.
- desmonding 8y ago
  Is it working now? It should open HN Algolia search page.
  - SpecialistEMT 8y ago
    It works

ryanjshaw 8y ago

This might be very helpful. Will subscribing to 'blockchain' get me everything from 'bitcoin'? How are topics identified, seeing as HN doesn't have native tagging?

desmonding 8y ago
Not necessarily. Currently a topic is simply the keyword when you do search on HN powered by Algolia.

soulclap 8y ago

Looks interesting. Does the 'hot topics' section list all available tags or are there more? When choosing tags, it would help if I could see which tags you're giving to specific stories on HN.

desmonding 8y ago
Only top 50 tags are displayed. At this moment, a tag/topic is simply the keyword when you do search on HN. I agree it’s going to be more helpful to choose tags if it shows related stories.

SpecialistEMT 8y ago

Is there a list of keywords possible or can i input anything?

desmonding 8y ago
You can input anything you want, but it’s recommended to use keywords that show up frequently in HN titles.

mkbkn 8y ago

I have set up an IFTTT recipe that emails me whenever a new content is created on HN, based on the keyword(s) chosen by me. And it mails on the same day. Worked perfectly so far. But I'll give yours a try too. :)

desmonding 8y ago
This is a clever idea! To check new content, there would be some kind of service checking HN posts repeatedly I suppose?