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Show HN: I made Hacker News but for research papers
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Re: Show HN: I made Hacker News but for research papers
#52I got out of academia, but I'd love to keep reading the new hot and influential papers to keep up with the research trends in the research communities I am interested in. So I like this idea!
However, there are so many junk papers that the paper title itself is rarely useful. Too much context is lacking: where was it published? How strong is the conference / journal? When was it published? How many citations so far? What sub-sub-sub-field is it in?
Re: Show HN: I made Hacker News but for research papers
#53This website is promising. Here are some suggestions/questions.
For some reason, I can't use the trackpad to navigate forward and backward. Did you disable this somehow? Just a minor annoyance.
In your html-rendering, it would be nice to see an outline similar to the PDF renderer in Chrome. It is a very nice feature to quickly see the sections of a PDF or paper.
Suggestion: Allow people to comment on a specific line in the paper, and include a link to that line.
Good work!
Re: Show HN: I made Hacker News but for research papers
#54What you'll discover is that the moment this falls off the HN front page, your traffic goes to zero. You'll need to manually recruit users, every day, typically by going to wherever they are. Twitter is your friend here. DM everyone you can, and keep checking in with them to see if they're getting value out of it. My personal experience was that I showed up, was delighted to see so many relevant papers, but then lost…
What you'll discover is that the moment this falls off the HN front page, your traffic goes to zero. You'll need to manually recruit users, every day, typically by going to wherever they are.
Yeah front page on HN = high bounce rate. You need more to keep 'em coming back.
I don't think this is that good of an idea, imho. arXiv and SSRN already do this. There are no shortage of paper syndication and aggregation services.
Re: Show HN: I made Hacker News but for research papers
#55Related, but I created Scholars https://www.scholars.io Where researchers and others interested can create "reading rooms" of papers and discuss. I have also been thinking about something similar to this where a list of papers that people are currently discussing is shown. This looks great too!
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Re: Show HN: I made Hacker News but for research papers
#56Related, but I created Scholars https://www.scholars.io Where researchers and others interested can create "reading rooms" of papers and discuss. I have also been thinking about something similar to this where a list of papers that people are currently discussing is shown. This looks great too!
Is there a way to see what other people are reading and if I could join/collaborate with them?
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#57Are you planning to implement search and filter tags?
Re: Show HN: I made Hacker News but for research papers
#58I know these are all arxiv.org so far, but if you want to include research papers beyond that plaform, can I encourage you to use DOIs for links? It'll make links persistent and easy to cross-reference with citations and other systems. I did a spot check of the 14 links you have so far all have DOIs. I'm happy to give advice! (I work at Crossref.org)
Hey @afandian, can I interview you about the tech stack you all used to build search at Crossref.org?
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#59Re: Show HN: I made Hacker News but for research papers
#60How can I follow the feed? Rss or email news?