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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:

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export const hnFollow = hnFollowApp([ "pg", "sama", "geoff", "stevewoz", "tlb", "harj", "alankay", "worrydream", "norvig", "dalton", "mwseibel", "katm", "brianchesky", "dang", ]);
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