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Life & fun · April 3, 2014

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RSS feed of a user's HN comments

Sylvain at Algolia was kind enough to accept a small pull request for HN search, which means you can now add things like http://hn.algolia.com/userfeed/pg to your RSS reader, to get the most recent comments from that user. Each feed item currently includes just the text of the comment, but it should be easy to add some extra info, like the article title and parent URL. I'll take a look at the weekend unless someone beats me to it :)

RSS feed of a user's HN comments launched on April 3, 2014 with 7 votes and more than 50% of that year's launches.

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This tool generates RSS feeds of individual Hacker News users' comments through Algolia's HN search integration. Users can subscribe to feeds like hn.algolia.com/userfeed/[username] in their RSS reader to track a specific person's recent comments. Each feed item displays the comment text, with plans to add additional context like article titles and parent URLs.

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