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Re: Show HN: Your personal Hacker News reader - Skim HN

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Post by raimonds »

StavrosK wrote: post #10
klapinat0r wrote: post #6

I appreciate the categories, even if it wasn't personalized. One idea for future development might be to add a point score based on Naive Bayes (which has been discussed previously). Not as a filter per say, but just as an indicator. E.g. http://joelgrus.com/2012/02/16/hacking-hacker-news/ Sure, you can use a bookmarklet or write your own thing, but I've always thought it'd be an interesting idea to have a centralize…

I'm doing this now as a side-project. I need quite a lot of data, unfortunately, and Scikit-Learn is giving me some trouble, but hopefully I'll have something I can show you guys soon.

Cool! Can I be a beta-tester?

Re: Show HN: Your personal Hacker News reader - Skim HN

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Post by StavrosK »

raimonds wrote: post #11
StavrosK wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm doing this now as a side-project. I need quite a lot of data, unfortunately, and Scikit-Learn is giving me some trouble, but hopefully I'll have something I can show you guys soon.

Cool! Can I be a beta-tester?

Sure, as soon as I have something that works! I'll probably give it another stab over the weekend and see if it can predict any better than chance.

If you want to do something useful on this for yourself, save the post IDs you liked and ones you didn't like. I don't currently have an interface for that (I use the command line to vote), but I can import them very easily from a list of IDs into your account later on.

Re: Show HN: Your personal Hacker News reader - Skim HN

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Post by rumberg »

dmart wrote: post #4

I like it, but I wouldn't mind an option to customize the line spacing and font colors (alternating colors, maybe?) - it's pretty dense to skim through.

I used a chrome extension called StyleBot to do a little styling: http://cl.ly/image/3w1y3G0p083J

Re: Show HN: Your personal Hacker News reader - Skim HN

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Post by moconnor »

klapinat0r wrote: post #6

I appreciate the categories, even if it wasn't personalized. One idea for future development might be to add a point score based on Naive Bayes (which has been discussed previously). Not as a filter per say, but just as an indicator. E.g. http://joelgrus.com/2012/02/16/hacking-hacker-news/ Sure, you can use a bookmarklet or write your own thing, but I've always thought it'd be an interesting idea to have a centralize…

I played with machine learning and HN stories a while ago. All my classifiers only managed to predict stories I would click on with around 60% accuracy.

When I tried to classify stories I would click on myself on two different occasions I also only managed around 60% accuracy.

So I figure what I feel like reading depends on a lot of internal context too.

In the end I got good enough results feeding stories with more than X points into my instapaper automatically. Few false hits and I never know about the near misses!

Re: Show HN: Your personal Hacker News reader - Skim HN

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Post by raimonds »

davidjhall wrote: post #13

Really like this -- good job. Do you have "not" syntax? I would love to have a skim feed that removes certain news items that overload the front page.

Thanks for the feedback! For "not" syntax prepend keyword with "-". E.g. -title:facebook. Unfortunately there's no syntax for front-page only posts.

Re: Show HN: Your personal Hacker News reader - Skim HN

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Post by raimonds »

rumberg wrote: post #14
dmart wrote: post #4

I like it, but I wouldn't mind an option to customize the line spacing and font colors (alternating colors, maybe?) - it's pretty dense to skim through.

I used a chrome extension called StyleBot to do a little styling: http://cl.ly/image/3w1y3G0p083J

Wow, that looks gorgeous! Could I use it as a style guide? Could you share specific things you changed?

Re: Show HN: Your personal Hacker News reader - Skim HN

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Post by rumberg »

raimonds wrote: post #17
rumberg wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I used a chrome extension called StyleBot to do a little styling: http://cl.ly/image/3w1y3G0p083J

Wow, that looks gorgeous! Could I use it as a style guide? Could you share specific things you changed?

I'd love to, raimonds. You can download Stylebot here: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stylebot/oiaejidbm...

After installing the extension, just open Stylebot and copy the following design for skimhn.com: http://pastebin.com/5Nupsm3B. it's still rough, but it's a start :)

The design is using Lato as typeface. You can download it here: http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/lato

PS: I've been also working on a redesign for Instapaper and Hacker News:

Instapaper Articles: http://cl.ly/image/1r1T420S042P Instapaper Features: http://cl.ly/image/172h0b3P2u3D Hacker News: http://cl.ly/image/3y3F1v060v1N

Re: Show HN: Your personal Hacker News reader - Skim HN

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Post by pilooch »

raimonds wrote: post #9
klapinat0r wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree that it's a difficult issue, as some might feel it's an intrusion of privacy if that data is used. Other might feel it's annoying to have to up/downvote stories both on HN and on your site. That's a trade-off. Perhabs both, or allow import of saved data, so users can make a dump from HN and import it in your site. I think the other HN api used to have that (if people trust them to pass their user/pw to HN saf…

Yeah, that makes sense! Totally agree. I will try to implement this.

You also can build a simple recommender based on categorization of articles.

XPLR (https://www.xplr.com) for whom I work, has an API that among other things, allows to easily tag articles and build recommenders.

If you're interested we'd be happy to let you use the API. Contact us or pm me for an access to the beta.

Re: Show HN: Your personal Hacker News reader - Skim HN

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Post by jmias »

rumberg wrote: post #14
dmart wrote: post #4

I like it, but I wouldn't mind an option to customize the line spacing and font colors (alternating colors, maybe?) - it's pretty dense to skim through.

I used a chrome extension called StyleBot to do a little styling: http://cl.ly/image/3w1y3G0p083J

Cool! using as standalone for now as it evolves no plugins needed (http://hidra.koding.com/ripskimhn/)
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