Sometimes HN feels like AI... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40440870
There is that theory that capitalism is just a way for AI from the future to build itself.
Show HN: HackerNews but for research papers
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#132Maybe add separate AI section?
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#133I like the concept. My feedback is to increase the color contrast. It's very difficult to read with the light gray text on light background. I'm using Firefox on Ubuntu.
I agree. I honestly think the UX would be much better if it just looked exactly like HN but with a new color other than orange.
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#134Huh. You know, I think HackerNews folks must approach literature searches and reading academic papers differently from the scholarly world at large. I can't think of any of my colleagues who would be looking for an algorithmically driven feed of papers to peruse. Usually we have specific questions we are trying to answer in research.
A lot of my colleagues either: - read arXiv (the algorithm there is pretty simple, but it's a feed of sorts), or - follow twitter accounts to learn about new results So, like it or not, a lot of people are getting their feed from algorithms.
I think you missed my point that the idea of a "feed" being something scholars need is not really clear. It is more that a feed is something that website developers know how to make
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#135This is great! I think your platform can become a new go-to place for keeping up with current research. I keep fingers crossed for you!
Recently I've built something similar [0], but I struggled at getting people on board after initial HN launch
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#136Three thoughts. 1. If you could add a button that makes a search on Google Scholar for the paper so I could find its main publication and reference counter, that would be awesome. 2. I don't like being linked directly to the PDF; I would rather go to the Arkvix page and download from there. 3. What would the policy of publications be? Only open-access papers allowed? Are pre-prints okay, or just peer review? Could on…
> I don't like being linked directly to the PDF
Not only that, but the button isn't even a link, so you don't know where it's going to. Is this only going to be for Arxiv?
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#137Sign in isn't working for me after confirming my email on both Chrome and Safari.
Sorry about that, I'm gonna have to do some testing. Works for me on Brave. I'll fix ASAP
Thanks! Seems to be working now. Next issue I see is that the formatting of a paper discussion page seems to be rendering content out of bounds of the view on mobile Safari.
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#138I have a feeling that the tree structure of comments in which most of the discussion usually takes place under the first few most upvoted comments might not be the best to have scientific discourse, but also don't know what would be better. On the other hand, papers/journals themselves could be seen as a ultra-high latency social network in which replies happen in the form of papers that reference the work they're re…
I think you're onto something! A retrospective history of science styled as an HN clone would be amazing, will any of you dare?
Re: Show HN: HackerNews but for research papers
#139Pubpeer: https://pubpeer.com/
firefox extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/pubpeer/
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#140Mobile view is broken