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Re: Show HN: I mapped HN's favorite books with GPT-4o

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Post by padolsey »

Niiice! I really like it. The spatial approach is cool, though labelling/annotations/axes would help.

I share the frustraion with getting book covers for my project ablf.io. Amazon used to make this much easier, but they've locked it down recently, so you have to jump through affiliate hoops. I ended up implementing my own thing and storing thousands of images myself on S3. If you have the goodreads IDs, feel free to use:

    assets.abooklike.foo/covers/{goodreads id}.jpg
N.B. The actual goodreads website itself make it hard as well since they have an additional UUID in their img URIs, so it's not deterministic; that's why I created this.

Re: Show HN: I mapped HN's favorite books with GPT-4o

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Post by ilikehurdles »

One small issue on mobile safari. when i tap to drag the map around, if i put my finger down on a book cover to start dragging the map, the book description is immediately expanded. put differently, my intention is to drag not open, but both actions take place when I drag.

I really like the project otherwise. We have a book club that’s deciding on what to read next and this could be very helpful.

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Post by alabhyajindal »

Congrats! The interface is beautiful and fast!

Adding direct links to the comments that mention the books could be a good feature to add. Hacker News Books [1] does this and it's useful have all the comments for a book in a single page.

1. https://hackernewsbooks.com

Re: Show HN: I mapped HN's favorite books with GPT-4o

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Post by mooreed »

Nice project.

I also would love to hear more about the cluster shapes and cardinality of the coordinate system. I consider myself am pretty versed in data analysis, however with less expertise on NLP topics (eg t-SNE).

So a quick blurb like: the units on the axes in the graph are “a reduced embedding space” designed to keep structure and to reduce the dimensionality such that the clusters could be plotted on screen…

(I’m not even sure that’s correct, but I would have loved for you to have informed me on the one sentence visualization choice and then point me to t-SNE.)

Overall nice project - and it reminds me of a painful professional analysis lesson I have had to re-learn more than once.

> After working for NN hours on an analysis, and finally breaking through and completing it, overlooking the title and labels is the biggest footgun I have ever dealt with.

Re: Show HN: I mapped HN's favorite books with GPT-4o

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Post by Nathanael_M »

I'd like to explore this more, but I'm getting THOUSANDS of errors:

Failed to load module script: Expected a JavaScript module script but the server responded with a MIME type of "text/html". Strict MIME type checking is enforced for module scripts per HTML spec.

This crashes my browser in less than a minute.

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