Hacker News for Hackers
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Hacker News for Hackers
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#2Interesting project, and nice to see some data on it. I've been mulling something like this as well.
One issue I have with pure keyword filters when I apply them to e.g. RSS feeds is that they can't capture details well - e.g. I'd like seeing a detailed article about how V8 works and wouldn't to exclude an otherwise interesting thing just because it is in JS, then you spend quite a lot of finetuning the filters.
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#3Interesting project, and nice to see some data on it. I've been mulling something like this as well. One issue I have with pure keyword filters when I apply them to e.g. RSS feeds is that they can't capture details well - e.g. I'd like seeing a detailed article about how V8 works and wouldn't to exclude an otherwise interesting thing just because it is in JS, then you spend quite a lot of finetuning the filters.
OP here: definitely the keywords-in-title have limitations as a feature set. Once I get more training examples (enough to characterize what "interesting") I will definitely look at the full text, HTML metadata, etc.
As you say, there is interesting deep stuff going on in the JS space, but there is too much average stuff for me to look at right now.
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#4> Off-Topic: ... If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
That would be nice but unfortunately in practice all the big news make their way to the top of HN, despite the fact that we've already read and heard about them from countless other sources. For example some of the top posts at the moment are:
- Catalan parliament declares independence from Spain
- New Zealand to ban foreigners from buying existing houses
- How to Read the JFK Assassination Files
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#5> Videos, Podcasts, etc.: If I am rating 100+ articles a day I just can't spend the time it takes to look at time-based media.
It makes me sad when I see an interesting looking post, and it turns out that it is only a video or podcast, with no proper writeup. I just don't have time to watch an hour-long video, for content that I could read at my own pace in ten/fifteen minutes.
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#7That's an interesting project. I've been exploring this from a different angle, in the form of generated email newsletters (https://www.findlectures.com/form?type=alert). This uses the contents of the articles as well - I'm crawling links on programming subreddits.
If you start from keywords you can use NLP (Word2vec) to measure how close articles are to your interests, so for instance "python, machine learning" gives you stuff on tensorflow, scikit learn, etc whereas "java, machine learning" gives you articles on spark, Deeplearning4j.
You can also measure how similar articles are to each other - getting the most dis-similar articles avoids the "piling on" problem mentions.
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#8Can't find link to source code. Is there source available on this?
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#9Pop-ins : here is what I do
1) I found here, on Hacker News, a nice "kill sticky" javascript function to put in my shortcuts
2) In Firefox, I gave it a shortcut keyword
3) In my AutoHotKey script, I assigned a key to "type the shortcut keyword in the address bar" to run it quickly
4) when a pop-in occurs, I reflexively press my kill key
The script is
javascript:(function()%7B(function%20()%20%7Bvar%20i%2C%20elements%20%3D%20document.querySelectorAll('body%20*')%3Bfor%20(i%20%3D%200%3B%20i%20%3C%20elements.length%3B%20i%2B%2B)%20%7Bif%20(getComputedStyle(elements%5Bi%5D).position%20%3D%3D%3D%20'fixed')%20%7Belements%5Bi%5D.parentNode.removeChild(elements%5Bi%5D)%3B%7D%7D%7D)()%7D)()
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#10This is certainly a different take on Hacker News data.
One of the thing I honestly dislike about comments on Hacker News is the advocation of the No True Scotsman-esque definition of "Hacker," where the only thing that matters is code and how it's used. In 2017, there's more to being a "Hacker" than just what low-level language is being used.