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Re: Show HN: HackerNews but for research papers

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Post by SamPatt »

severine wrote: post #138
sva_ wrote: post #112

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 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?

I'm intrigued - how would you envision the posts and comments working?

Re: Show HN: HackerNews but for research papers

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Post by mancerayder »

sva_ wrote: post #112

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 re…

How do you filter for such folks that would respond so professionally?

Re: Show HN: HackerNews but for research papers

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Post by Falimonda »

Nice idea. I recommend defaulting to Top Rated. For better or worse, it makes the product look more mature.

Also, there's an issue with click propagation on the sort drop down. I had to click between Top Rated and back a few times because the click kept causing the underlying post to open. FWIW, this was on mobile.

Re: Show HN: HackerNews but for research papers

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Post by iamwil »

emrehan wrote: post #141
sleno wrote: post #123

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think you're right. I want to find experts in each field who can help me create a 'most important papers' section that people like me (who don't know anything) can go to to understand the most important and 'hottest' ideas and see the discussion around them.

What iamwil says is “one niche topic”, and why he says it is: Such social media platforms need a small niche community to get started. I think such a platform would be most useful for AI papers. If I were in your shoes, I’d pivot to targeting AI papers only and allocate 90% of my time on community building.

Yes. focus on one specific topic or field of study. Think of it like starting a fire. You want to get the core really hot first, before trying to burn other things.

Hacker news used to be called Startup news, because all it did was talk about startups. pg only expanded it later because only startup news was too boring.

Reddit only started with a few topics, IIRC-- /r/programming r/startups, and something else. Just topics that the founders found interesting.

AI is the right way to go. It's what people are interested in right now, and market demonstrates there's a need with existing twitter handles and newsletters that purport to cover AI papers.

Re: Show HN: HackerNews but for research papers

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Post by mrtesthah »

sleno wrote: post #79
mrtesthah wrote: post #46

Did you consider just running a Lemmy instance with perhaps different time decay parameters?

Can you explain? Don't know what a Lemmy instance is. I did think about using time decay to give a more HN-like experience but haven't gotten around to implementing it yet.

https://join-lemmy.org/
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