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If anyone can contact John Buck this sounds like information he'd be interested in. Also an interesting avenue for future investigative work.
by adzm 1y ago
If anyone can contact John Buck this sounds like information he'd be interested in. Also an interesting avenue for future investigative work.
- hellojohnbuck 1y agothanks adam
- pinkmuffinere 1y 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 1y 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 1y agoSomebody subscribed to my blog with ref to hacker news so i just poked my head in :-)
- shawn_w 1y 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 1y agoKibo greps
- Cthulhu_ 1y 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 1y 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 1y 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 1y 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 1y agoI use f5bot.com, which monitors HN, Reddit, and Lobsters. (I have no connection to f5bot except being a happy user.)
- phibz 1y agoI've seen Ken Shirriff do this. You mention him and suddenly he's there.
- kens 1y agohi! :-) As I commented elsewhere, f5bot.com is a nice, free tool to monitor HN