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

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Post by scott_s » Mon, Jul 06, 2009, 8:09 PM UTC

coconutrandom wrote: post #47

scott_s wrote: post #44

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The fear I have is it would splinter the community.

But HN has become so big. It not logical to think that everyone will be interested by everything now.

I'm not convinced the community has become so big that subdivisions are necessary.

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

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Post by Frocer » Mon, Jul 06, 2009, 9:00 PM UTC

TweedHeads wrote: post #31

This is just an indicative that HN should go back to the roots.

Agreed, but I am not sure why. A couple of years ago, I would read almost every article / discussion posted on the front page of HN. But now days, I click through at most 10-20% of the content. Dunno if it's a shift in culture, or just the larger community has diluted the quality of content. Regardless, HN is still my favorite source of tech / startup news.

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

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Post by zimbabwe » Mon, Jul 06, 2009, 9:08 PM UTC

astine wrote: post #49

dgallagher wrote: post #30

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

I think that we'd be better with tagging than categories per se. Give people a finate list of tags to choose from and people could customize their views pretty easily.

Newsvine is a good example of tags making a community more focused and easier to handle.

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

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Post by sqs » Mon, Jul 06, 2009, 11:11 PM UTC

sqs wrote: post #38

iamelgringo wrote: post #11

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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

and mercurial at http://bitbucket.org/sqs/hhn/overview/

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

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Post by zackattack » Mon, Jul 06, 2009, 11:16 PM UTC

Would somebody please skin News.YC so that we can click on the "comments" link without having to squint and be super precise? I would like a big square to the right of the up/down arrows, and to the left of the Title/Score (spanning both, vertically).

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

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Post by sqs » Mon, Jul 06, 2009, 11:28 PM UTC

sqs wrote: post #50

bts wrote: post #46

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FYI I'm having problems decompressing this file. Could you re-post it? or alternatively throw the code up on something like github?

Hmm...tar xzfv hhn-20090706.tgz doesn't work for you?

BTW, the code's up at http://bitbucket.org/sqs/hhn/overview/ now

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

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Post by Andys » Tue, Jul 07, 2009, 12:07 AM UTC

jrockway wrote: post #23

ersi wrote: post #12

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That doesn't sound very social. Aren't most programming/math/science also "time-wasting", so to speak?

People want to read about programming. Right now, there are three options: * News.YC, which rarely has articles about programming anymore (perhaps one or two a day). * Programming Reddit, whose commentators think every article is a jab at The One True Idea, which they seem to think is PHP. * Lambda the Ultimate, which only covers a small area of programming; language design and implementation I want a site like LtU b…

I came to news.yc because I wanted to read about startups. There are very few % of articles about startups now.

(I am sticking around because of the general interest articles which is what I used to visit reddit for before it became too popular)

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

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Jul 07, 2009, 2:45 AM UTC

sqs wrote: post #43

sqs wrote: post #8

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Thanks. I'll definitely post the code soon. I'm using the title, the submitter's name, the URL, and the page content without tags (only looking at and similar tags would probably help). Including the content of the HN comments pages might help, too. Thanks for the link; I'll check it out.

OK, the source is here: http://hackerhackernews.com/hhn-20090706.tgz

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