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Ask HN: A place like HN but with more nerdy stuff and less social stuff?

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Re: Ask HN: A place like HN but with more nerdy stuff and less social stuff?

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Post by zalew »

polyfractal wrote: post #98
zalew wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wanted to register, but there is no link. it's some exclusive club?

Quoting from the original "about" post: > Invitations > Not for exclusivity, but rather, invitations will be used as a spam-control mechanism. New users must be invited by a current member and invitations will be unlimited (unless scaling problems temporarily prevent new accounts). If spammers are invited to the site and banned, the user that invited them may also be banned, going up the chain of invitations as neede…

ah, ok, I get it. got the invite, signed up.

Re: Ask HN: A place like HN but with more nerdy stuff and less social stuff?

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Post by unimpressive »

jlgreco wrote: post #140
thaumaturgy wrote: post #8

I have a somewhat radical, sadly not novel suggestion: build what you're looking for. I now have a semi-private "HN Reader" which has completely broken my HN habit while still feeding me stuff I might be interested in. Because I built it, I can make it do anything I want. I've started to turn it into a slightly broader search engine so that I can find the things that I'm looking for; I got sick of seeing search engin…

I've done similar. Bayesian filtering seems to work great on HN headlines. I trained mine with about two years of data scrapped from http://www.daemonology.net/hn-daily/ (apologies to whoever runs that), then just basically wrapped that with some code that grabs hacker news's main page and displays the filtered headlines to me. It nails politics and startup crap with stunning accuracy. The only problem is that now I…

Anywhere I can get that training set without DDOS'ing some poor guys mirror?

Re: Ask HN: A place like HN but with more nerdy stuff and less social stuff?

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Post by haldean »

jhund wrote: post #170
haldean wrote: post #156

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That's not really what he/she asked for. What your parent is asking for (and I would love to see this too) is a tool that treats RSS feeds as sets of articles, then lets you do set operations on those sets (i.e., get me all articles a \in A such that a \in HN \and a \notin rpolitics)

Hi there, good point. I didn't explain myself very well. You can do this with intigi, too. You can filter both at the content and the source level. So you could set up an interest that presents you with results that a) appear in the HN RSS feed AND b) that don't appear in the r/politics feed In order to do set operations on URLs reliably, we also solve the issue of canonicalization (resolving redirects, removing trac…

Nice! I'll have to take a look. Thanks!

Re: Ask HN: A place like HN but with more nerdy stuff and less social stuff?

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Post by debacle »

robot wrote: post #145
sgdesign wrote: post #31

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If anybody wants an easy way to set up their own HN, may I suggest taking a look at Telescope? http://telesc.pe/ It's a real-time, open source HN clone built on Meteor, with features like invite-only mode, notifications, and a lot more stuff. And since it's open source, if something is missing you can always code it yourself and contribute it back to the project.

Text is dispersed too much. I prefer HN because you can read a lot more in a packed space.

CSS is easy.

Re: Ask HN: A place like HN but with more nerdy stuff and less social stuff?

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Post by achompas »

apas wrote: post #157
jacquesc wrote: post #6

http://lobste.rs seems like exactly what you want. It's a good community, give it a try

Speaking of Lobste.rs, has anyone an invitation? That'd be amazing.

Yes! Would love an invite to Lobste.rs too please. Looks excellent. (Don't have an invite as of 7pm EST 12/15).
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