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Re: Show HN: I made Hacker News but for research papers

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Post by eimrine »

Aromasin wrote: post #19

I know someone else has said there's not too much whitespace, but I disagree. Comparing HN to this, I'm seeing 9 links per page compared to 26 for HN. Even Reddit fits 10 per page, and that's with thumbnails. It goes up to 18 with compact view. It needs much more content. Love the concept, but the UI leaves a lot to be desired in my eyes.

Maybe it was intended to surf the website only from vertical ultrawides:

https://imgur.com/a/o613uYC

Re: Show HN: I made Hacker News but for research papers

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Post by afandian »

pablomendes wrote: post #58
afandian wrote: post #5

I 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?

Always happy to share more details about how we build open scholarly infrastructure! Can do here, or reply with contact details.

Re: Show HN: I made Hacker News but for research papers

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Post by mkenny »

I wonder if there might be a way to incorporate metrics like h-index, which I would think that many researchers themselves would be interested in. Perhaps something like that might detract from the posts standing for themselves, but I just thought I'd throw that out there if you find it might be useful. Great work though, seems like a great idea to me. I hope you can draw in a community around it successfully.

Re: Show HN: I made Hacker News but for research papers

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Post by sitkack »

afandian wrote: post #5

I 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)

I came here as well to recommend the DOI. So many nice things can be had by using this rather than your own IDs, it means that site now becomes a tool that composes with other tools.

Re: Show HN: I made Hacker News but for research papers

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Post by afandian »

sitkack wrote: post #87
afandian wrote: post #5

I 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)

I came here as well to recommend the DOI. So many nice things can be had by using this rather than your own IDs, it means that site now becomes a tool that composes with other tools.

I'm always interested in hearing about less-than-mainstream uses of DOIs.

Re: Show HN: I made Hacker News but for research papers

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Post by DoctorOetker »

sillysaurusx wrote: post #32

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. 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…

Did your platform permit LaTeX in comments?

To get profound discussions, the discussions need to be able to delve towards the fundamentals, i.e. towards both mathematics on one hand and the basic sciences on the other (physics, chemistry).

I yearn for a HN for scientific papers, and while there are often comments by actual physicists, mathematicians, chemists,... on HN, there is a lot of "science fan boy" noise.

If actual mathematicians and scientists can not use the notation systems they are familiar with, the platform is doomed to word salad.

Growing up I once saw a piece of graffiti in the city's dead center, it read either:

"Every system creates

the bullshit it deserves"

or:

"Every system deserves

the bullshit it creates"

I can't remember which exactly.

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