Looks great. I think if there's one thing this could benefit from it would be Genius-style comments and annotations. https://genius.com/Genius-how-to-annotate-and-edit-on-genius...
Take a look at https://web.hypothes.is/
Show HN: I made Hacker News but for research papers
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Re: Show HN: I made Hacker News but for research papers
#12This looks awesome! FYI You may have a bug where you treat unicode as ascii. Notice the " âpost-symbolicâ" here [1]
Re: Show HN: I made Hacker News but for research papers
#13why would you create separate site and not subreddit where you can get way more traction from existing users?..
An HN clone, not reddit.
But one huge perk of not having a subreddit is you don't have the mass of users come from other subreddits where the standards of comments tend to be more copypasta troll-like than HN.
Re: Show HN: I made Hacker News but for research papers
#14HN has a set restricted topic: “Anything that good hackers would find interesting.” (from the guidelines). But, for PaperList, are there people interested in research papers – i.e. any and all research papers? Or would it be appropriate to narrow the focus on some subfield, or perhaps on “groundbreaking papers”, “practical papers” or even “controversial papers”? That last one ought to get some traffic, at least.
Re: Show HN: I made Hacker News but for research papers
#15This looks awesome! FYI You may have a bug where you treat unicode as ascii. Notice the " âpost-symbolicâ" here [1] [1] https://paperlist.io/paper/724614047
Ah interesting. I'm using LaXeXML to translate LaTeX to HTML. Might be something up with that. Will take a look at it!
Re: Show HN: I made Hacker News but for research papers
#16The problem is, there are way too much papers, even if you focus already to some domain, like deep learning. But this seems to be completely open to any topic? For machine learning, https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/ is currently a good place, or Twitter and following some of the authors you are interested in, or just set some Google Scholar alerts.
It doesn't have to be every paper, just papers people find interesting. HN is even larger, it can be any subjects including papers but still survives.
Re: Show HN: I made Hacker News but for research papers
#17Are you using pure white? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34684761
Re: Show HN: I made Hacker News but for research papers
#18The problem is, there are way too much papers, even if you focus already to some domain, like deep learning. But this seems to be completely open to any topic? For machine learning, https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/ is currently a good place, or Twitter and following some of the authors you are interested in, or just set some Google Scholar alerts.
Hard disagree. If a user submits a paper, chances are it's because they're interested in it. I'm interested in this precisely because I might find myself reading about something in a topic I know nothing about that's interesting to somebody.
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#19I know someone else has said there's not too much whitespace, but I disagree. Comparing HN to this, I'm seeing 9 links per page compared to 26 for HN. Even Reddit fits 10 per page, and that's with thumbnails. It goes up to 18 with compact view. It needs much more content. Love the concept, but the UI leaves a lot to be desired in my eyes.
Re: Show HN: I made Hacker News but for research papers
#20HN has a set restricted topic: “Anything that good hackers would find interesting.” (from the guidelines). But, for PaperList, are there people interested in research papers – i.e. any and all research papers? Or would it be appropriate to narrow the focus on some subfield, or perhaps on “groundbreaking papers”, “practical papers” or even “controversial papers”? That last one ought to get some traffic, at least.
a site I would be interested in is: “papers a hacker would be interested in” (aka papers you could nerdsnipe someone with) which is unfortunately not what this website seems to be.