This is a pretty common question and should probably be in the FAQ.<p>If you search the archives, you can see plenty of people asking this and a few third-party sites that will notify you of comments.<p>Last year, dang posted this:<p>> I look at it this way: it's designed for engaged, prolonged discussion if and only if people continue to be interested enough in it to remember. If they aren't, activation energy falls below a certain threshold and attention naturally moves on to something else. That seems healthy for curious conversation, which fits the prime directive of HN (<a href="https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor" rel="nofollow">https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor</a>...).<p>> What we don't do is resort to technical tricks to keep that energy buzzed up. We're optimizing for curiosity, not engagement.<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27897211#27901918" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27897211#27901918</a>
None from Hacker News itself.<p>You can use <a href="http://www.hnreplies.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.hnreplies.com/</a> for email or <a href="https://hnrss.org/replies?id=coreyhn" rel="nofollow">https://hnrss.org/replies?id=coreyhn</a> for RSS.
nnhackernews only shows new comments for the tiny fraction of threads
you've read (and hides everything else).<p>It won't notify you of your upvotes however, which is what most people
are after. Only manually refreshing
"news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=you" opens that narcissism drip.