Thanks for open sourcing it. It'd be neat to replicate this idea for other sites I might frequent. I'm already having enough trouble trying to stay away from HN on the browser. Heh.

I'm thinking about creating a generic version of this that checks on a single RSS feed for you.

Hey, that'd be really awesome. I'll be checking your github.

what is the difference between this an an RSS feed?

This currently uses cheeaun's excellent node-hnapi[1] instead of an RSS feed.

[1]: https://github.com/cheeaun/node-hnapi/