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Re: Show HN: HackerNews but for research papers

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Post by aDyslecticCrow »

dguest wrote: post #47

I think the ideal future for science publication would be something like: - some database like arXiv for most all the results, obviously mirrored a few places - multiple frontends like this! - no more journals: replace journal review with an endorsement from a similar organization, on the arXiv (or similar) page Thanks for taking one of the required steps to making this possible!

The quality standard of peer review, especially within computer science, is declining. I've read lots of papers only to discover obvious method flaws or dishonest statistics. With a simple comment section, this would be trivial to filter out.

And don't get me started on the price for publication and for readers that supposedly fund this "detailed peer review process" that misses so many obvious flaws.

The peer review process is still needed, but I would love to see it be more public. I've been wanting this exact thing for years. A simple comment section of the average readers and their thoughts.

Re: Show HN: HackerNews but for research papers

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Post by sva_ »

I 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 replying to.

The high latency could be seen as a feature. The ability to post a reply instantly and without much thought definitely degrades quality.

Re: Show HN: HackerNews but for research papers

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Post by aDyslecticCrow »

Three 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 one post a paper published in IEEE, with an extra field for where the paper is publicly accessible?

Re: Show HN: HackerNews but for research papers

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Post by arrowsmith »

sleno wrote: post #7
williamstein wrote: post #5

If you had watched me use this over my shoulder for a minute, this is what you would see: I went to the page, scanned the list to find something that has comments, but everything is listed as "0 Comments". I clicked on "Comments" for the AGI paper, but nothing happens -- it's not a link. There's no "Discuss" link. On HN clicking on the paper title opens the upstream link, not comments, but on your site I discovered t…

Really appreciate the feedback! I'm gonna ship this up, yes there are some gibberish comments i left from testing. Thanks for letting me know about the bugs, and other UI issues, will fix ASAP.

Fyi: the UI is completely broken on mobile. I cant read anything at the above link because it extends off the edge of the page in both directions and I can't horizontally scroll.

Re: Show HN: HackerNews but for research papers

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Post by iamwil »

You need people talking about the papers. Because they're so dense, I'd focus on just one specific niche topic, and get people versed in that subfield talking about it on there. And start with just 5 papers for people to talk about. Then once you get that going, slowly expand.
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