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Ask HN: 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.
- dmor 4y agoThis 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
- kickaha 4y ago“emacs” and “org-mode”
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- suranyami 4y ago"Alcubierre": to track progress on warp drives
- mkl 4y agoYou track that every day? How much daily progress is there on something that will likely remain impossible forever?
- hjkl0 4y agoFWIW, seems perfectly reasonable to have keyword tracking for something that has very little activity. I understood this to be asking about something like a Google alert. I could have one for my name, even if it never gets any hits. The daily part doesn’t really matter much, unless by “tracking” you mean “manually searching”.
- suranyami 4y agoI don't track it EVERY DAY, obviously. Just have keyword searches on Google Alerts. And yes, if you were talking 10 years ago, when I started that keyword search, Alcubierre drives were seen as "not implementable even if we could use all the energy in the universe and it would have to be exotic matter with negative mass". That's since been refined to "Only implementable with all the energy contained in a solar system, but still needing negative mass" about 5 years ago and then "Implementable with the energy contained in a gas-giant planet, like Jupiter, and not needing negative mass exotic matter". So, you know, maybe not remain impossible forever? There seems to be slow-but-steady progress happening over the decade scale, and I'm happy to be alerted to that when it happens. The only downside to Google Alerts with this is that there are a lot of pop-science sites that trot out a "warp drives: might they be real?" article whenever it's a slow news week where they get an intern to gather up a bunch of links from wikipedia and google and regurgitate it into generic meaningless content. I don't have an answer for how to weed out those false positives. Keywords are a poor tool for the job here.
- eimrine 4y ago"Lisp"
- egberts1 4y ago“JavaScript malware” using Google Scholar and Google Alert.
- lalwanivikas 4y agoHow/where do you track keywords?
- lothar_m 4y agoThis ^
- LeonTheremin 4y agoWeb scraping that creates RSS feeds for any page with CSS selectors.
- t0bia_s 4y agoFor example?
- cratermoon 4y ago"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.
- jacob_rezi 4y agocover letter examples ai resume builder free resume builder
- echelon 4y agoOn your work machine, I take it?
- john-tells-all 4y agoI 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 http://hnapp.com/?q=author%3Anickjj
- mosselman 4y agoYouTube provides an RSS feed for channels. An example: https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCq6nWQ394zHewyoC6Cn1HhQ https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCq6nWQ3...
- sainib 4y agoNames of Top competitors of ours
- echelon 4y agoWhy not just focus on you?
- jimjambw 4y agoThis is a joke right?
- echelon 4y agoChecking in on competitors is one thing, monitoring their every move seems borderline obsessive to the point you're not focusing on your own product roadmap. I wouldn't want Google alerts about competition. That feels like paranoia. edit: https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1109220781035307009 https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1109220781035307009
- golergka 4y ago> I wouldn't want Google alerts about competition. That feels like paranoia. Just as with many other jobs and roles, this might not be what many (or even most) people would want to do, but having somebody (even if the kind of person who would be a good fit for it is rare) do it would still be a good thing for organisation as a whole.
- t6jvcereio 4y agoJust focusing on yourself is fine if you're the underdog. If you're the incumbent, and you don't know what your competitors are doing, someone will eat your lunch.
- sharms 4y ago“Linux macOS” - love reading about desktops and workflows
- ksec 4y agoMostly 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 )
- timoteostewart 4y agoI 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"
- silisili 4y agoThanks 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!
- xmonkee 4y agoOkay I need to know what's with the jesus laughing thing?
- timoteostewart 4y agoHahaha! Right?! The Bible says twice that Jesus wept and nowhere does it say he laughed. I think some people have in mind that Jesus was mostly dour and stern, even morose. Whether he had a sense of humor and how he might have expressed it is a fascinating question for me. I think some of the things he said and taught might have a tinge of humor to them. Like when he called Peter a Rock, was that him ribbing Peter that he was a bit of a blockhead? I wonder what things he said that got people chuckling and guffawing. Maybe one day I’ll write a book. I am sitting on didjesuslaugh.com. :-) Interestingly there is some scholarship on this question. I myself would probably write for a popular audience though, maybe with a bibliography in the back.
- beatthatflight 4y ago"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.
- golergka 4y ago> 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.
- pabs3 4y agoDebian
- joshu 4y agonot google but on craigslist cars: "lotus", "lancia", "scca", "roll cage", "engine swap", "drift", "formula"
- ars 4y agoWhen 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.
- themodelplumber 4y agoGoogle 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...
- undebuggable 4y agoWhen 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.
- verhovsky 4y agoI get an email from https://f5bot.com/ https://f5bot.com/ every few weeks when someone mentions https://curlconverter.com/ https://curlconverter.com/ on HN or Reddit
- _9xrb 4y agoI 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 4y agoWouldn’t stuff like that end up as a CVE?
- deepdriver 4y agoProbably a lot of it, yes. I'd also be on the lookout for things like unplanned outages, data breaches, and product end-of-life announcements. Filtering the CVE feed for specific products would be one step towards making an all-in-one alert service.
- defrost 4y agoI routinely pull "Technical Report" PDF's from https://www.sedar.com/new_docs/all_new_pc_filings_en.htm 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 4y agoDo 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
- defrost 4y agoCall it my "at home" continuation of a project I worked on 14+ years ago, now licenced and onsold to S&P Global as [1]. There's also a component of tracking every mineral related lease globally ( ~1.3 million in Canada alone) and tying those into public releases on the Canadian, London, New York, South African, Australian, etc exchanges .. and a fair bit of legwork in China, Russia, elsewhere. [1] https://www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence/en/campaigns/metals-mining https://www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence/en/campaigns/met...
- faebi 4y agoGoogle 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.
- dvh 4y agoI 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
- LeonTheremin 4y ago"Havana Syndrome" "Microwave Weapon" "Silent Speech" Interface
- xtiansimon 4y agoJust for completeness, I will mention the old saw—check the obituaries to see if your name is in it! Har-har
- unknownsky 4y ago* 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 4y agoInteresting! Have the sale alerts ever netted you something of interest? I imagine one could have a decent side business flipping goods.
- unknownsky 4y agoThat's a good point, but actually not how I use the alert. I only use the alert so I can get deals for myself. It's usually clothing or home goods stores that show up on those alerts, and I have definitely got plenty of good stuff for super cheap, so it's of interest to me at least.
- BlameKaneda 4y agoI 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.
- akfaew 4y agoI run syften.com, I help people track keywords for a living. Ask me anything!
- donclark 4y agohttps://www.google.com/alerts 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