Live data from Hacker News

Hacker Hacker News - see just the programming/math/science links from HN

hackerhackernews.com

31–40 of 58 posts

Re: Hacker Hacker News - see just the programming/math/science links from HN

#34
post #22
post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What about a generic My Hacker News with a classifier trained on each person's personal "I want to see / I do not want to see" preferences? :>

HN doesn't need subreddits.

why? I notice you've received (18) upvotes, which in this case probable means agreement, so there's obviously some support for not having this feature.

Is it specifically subreddits to avoid? I completely agree that subreddits are a terrible implementation of user-content customization because they force items into a single-parent hierarchy.

However, categories that filter content according to different weights would be quite useful. By pre-selecting these categories and thus pre-computing them, it would even be reasonable to implement (actual per-user filters might not work so well in real-time).

Re: Hacker Hacker News - see just the programming/math/science links from HN

#37
post #13
post #2

I made this in a few hours for my own personal use and thought that other people might want to use it, too. It uses a Python Bayesian classifier trained on about 200 hand-labeled links and outputs a static HTML file. It's not perfect (and the technical/non-technical distinction is arbitrary), but I'll give it some more training data and see if it improves. Also, I don't mean to disparage non-technical topics with thi…

> Page generated automatically at 23:49 on 05 July 2009 Can you specify the timezone? Also, how often is the page updated?

I'll add the timezone (PDT). It's updated whenever I run a command to update the HTML and scp that to the server. Nothing automated about the process yet.

Re: Hacker Hacker News - see just the programming/math/science links from HN

#38
post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's a great idea. Right now it's just spitting out a static HTML file, so that'd require some significant changes to the code. I'll see how it's doing tomorrow and consider making it into something like what you describe.

Are you using the reverend thomas library? http://www.divmod.org/trac/wiki/DivmodReverend I've been wanting to use that library for something just like this. I would love to read a write up of this, or see the code at some point. Thanks

Yeah, that's exactly the Bayesian classifier library that I'm using. I'll have the code up in a few hours.

edit: source at http://hackerhackernews.com/hhn-20090706.tgz

Re: Hacker Hacker News - see just the programming/math/science links from HN

#40
post #2

I made this in a few hours for my own personal use and thought that other people might want to use it, too. It uses a Python Bayesian classifier trained on about 200 hand-labeled links and outputs a static HTML file. It's not perfect (and the technical/non-technical distinction is arbitrary), but I'll give it some more training data and see if it improves. Also, I don't mean to disparage non-technical topics with thi…

I think you've stumbled on something that Hacker News needs: Categories.

as long as the same story can't be submitted by 2 different people by submitting it into different catetgories
Post reply on HN