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

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Post by raimonds »

james-singh wrote: post #2

No login? That means I have to personalize it everytime I use it on a different laptop? Btw, I wish there was a google chrome extension for this as well.

Sorry about that! And thanks for your feedback! Good point. I will look into implementing logins.

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

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Post by klapinat0r »

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 centralized like/hate server, where you could add different sources, say HN. That might be a different project, but adding a score based on the likelihood of "I'd read this" (not recommendation as I should note) would be a interesting in terms of skimming.

Let's say one of your users is in a hurry, he might want to skim the most (homogenous) likely news that'd interest him/her, whereas if it's late at night in leisure time, one might be more interested in new/abnormal stories.

Just a though. Good job.

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

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Post by raimonds »

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…

Wow, that's an awesome feedback and great link! Thanks for your kind words! That's a pity there's no API access to user's saved stories (as far as I know). This would be great source for Bayes training. Maybe a chrome extension could train Bayes on HN visited links.

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

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Post by klapinat0r »

raimonds wrote: post #7
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…

Wow, that's an awesome feedback and great link! Thanks for your kind words! That's a pity there's no API access to user's saved stories (as far as I know). This would be great source for Bayes training. Maybe a chrome extension could train Bayes on HN visited links.

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 safely), but seems to be disabled: http://api.ihackernews.com/.

So yeah, the easiest way to start it would be to have people up/down vote on your site, or use a heuristic measure such as: if you click a link, you "like" it, if you're shown a link, but don't click a link you "ignore" it (which should be less negative than hate, as there can be a number of reasons for not clicking a link).

As in:

I get a list of 10 items from each category, of those 10, which do I click, which don't I. So once an item is shown to me - save it as "bad" by default in the DB. If I click it, change it to a good result.

You'd might have to change the weight more than this, but it should be a good start, and requires the least amount of effort for the user.

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

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Post by raimonds »

klapinat0r wrote: post #8
raimonds wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wow, that's an awesome feedback and great link! Thanks for your kind words! That's a pity there's no API access to user's saved stories (as far as I know). This would be great source for Bayes training. Maybe a chrome extension could train Bayes on HN visited links.

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.

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

#10

Post by StavrosK »

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.
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