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Re: Show HN: HackerNews but for research papers

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Post by sleno »

montjoy wrote: post #27
iamthefury wrote: post #2

I love the idea and simplicity, thank you for sharing! Small bit of feedback: would it be possible to make the UI a bit more mobile friendly? Or, alternatively, is there an API that others could use to build different interfaces? Again, this is a Thing That Should Exist, so thank you for bringing it into the world.

I second this. Mobile is how I primarily read news. IMO it should be the first platform you support.

noted, thank you!

Re: Show HN: HackerNews but for research papers

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Post by zerojames »

I am glad to see more projects in the vein of helping people find research papers. I am delighted by the discourse of papers on HN. Indeed, the comments on research papers here can help me better understand something that's outside my field of expertise. But HN is not specifically for research. Thus, it feels like there is room for another space for people to come.

I like the idea of subcategories. Some notes on the experience:

  - When I load the page, it takes 1-2 seconds for papers to load. This doesn't feel great.
  - The grey colours in the list make the page hard to skim. I recommend a darker colour for the text.
  - The colour of the navigation links is too light. It is hard to see the links.
  - The information density is spot on. Amazing work!
This is a community project. Try to get a few people on one niche who know what they are talking about commenting on your site actively (This HN post may help you find those people!). If your site became good at computer vision, the field in which I work professionally, I'd be there every day.

Re: Show HN: HackerNews but for research papers

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Post by dguest »

ttpphd wrote: post #25

Huh. 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.

Re: Show HN: HackerNews but for research papers

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Post by sleno »

zerojames wrote: post #34

I am glad to see more projects in the vein of helping people find research papers. I am delighted by the discourse of papers on HN. Indeed, the comments on research papers here can help me better understand something that's outside my field of expertise. But HN is not specifically for research. Thus, it feels like there is room for another space for people to come. I like the idea of subcategories. Some notes on the…

Really appreciate the detailed feedback. Community is the hard part for sure, will do my best to make it as good as HN
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