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HN Follow – Follow your friends on HN

HN Follow lets you follow authors on Hacker News, and get email notifications when they post. It was inspired by alerthn.com and hnreplies.com.

Usage

Create a cron val with the a list of the people you want to follow in a JS array, like so:

Create val
export const hnFollow = hnFollowApp([
  "pg",
  "sama",
  "geoff",
  "stevewoz",
  "tlb",
  "harj",
  "alankay",
  "worrydream",
  "norvig",
  "dalton",
  "mwseibel",
  "katm",
  "brianchesky",
  "dang",
]);
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import { email } from "https://esm.town/v/std/email?v=9";
import { hnEmail } from "https://esm.town/v/rodrigotello/hnEmail";
import { hnLatestPosts } from "https://esm.town/v/stevekrouse/hnLatestPosts?v=18";
export const hnFollowApp = function (authors: string[]) {
return async function ({ lastRunAt }) {
let posts = await hnLatestPosts({
authors,
lastSyncTime: lastRunAt,
search_by_date: true,
});
let { html, subject } = await hnEmail({ posts });
if (posts.length)
await email({ html, subject });
};
};
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June 10, 2024