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Re: Show HN: HackerNews but for research papers

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Post by tkw01536 »

aDyslecticCrow wrote: post #113

Three thoughts. 1. If you could add a button that makes a search on Google Scholar for the paper so I could find its main publication and reference counter, that would be awesome. 2. I don't like being linked directly to the PDF; I would rather go to the Arkvix page and download from there. 3. What would the policy of publications be? Only open-access papers allowed? Are pre-prints okay, or just peer review? Could on…

I'd second this - linking directly to `https://arxiv.org/abs/{{id}}` maybe even include the formats in the `Access Paper` box on the RHS of that interface would be a neat feature.

Re: Show HN: HackerNews but for research papers

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Post by redbell »

williamstein wrote: post #5

If you had watched me use this over my shoulder for a minute, this is what you would see: I went to the page, scanned the list to find something that has comments, but everything is listed as "0 Comments". I clicked on "Comments" for the AGI paper, but nothing happens -- it's not a link. There's no "Discuss" link. On HN clicking on the paper title opens the upstream link, not comments, but on your site I discovered t…

> but everything is listed as "0 Comments"

Also, everything is listed as "0 points" which I found it weird, how would then the ranking work? HN gives 1 point to every story submitted.

Re: Show HN: HackerNews but for research papers

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Post by ted_dunning »

sleno wrote: post #120
blt wrote: post #110

I suggest to implement LaTeX math in comments if you want to support math-heavy fields. Plain text comments make certain ideas almost impossible to express.

Great idea, will do this

In case you haven't seen this, supporting latex is pretty easy with MathJax

https://www.mathjax.org/

Re: Show HN: HackerNews but for research papers

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Post by armchairhacker »

I usually look for research papers in well-known conferences. I think you can google the conferences for other fields, but some of them for Programming Languages are SPLASH, ECOOP, PLDI, ICFP. So if you want important new papers, those are the places to look.

Universities often have “seminar” classes and “reading groups” to discuss influential papers, which sometimes includes older ones as well. The discussions are a bit like what this site is trying to accomplish, albeit in-person. Unfortunately the seminars and reading groups themselves aren’t usually public, but some of their websites are (and some past websites are still up) and they post the list of papers.

For PL specifically you can find a lot of notable papers in the history of the r/ProgrammingLanguage subreddit, and there are lists you can google such as https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/courses/670Fall04/GreatW... and https://github.com/imteekay/programming-language-research?ta.... I also found https://github.com/papers-we-love/papers-we-love for more genera computer science papers.

Re: Show HN: HackerNews but for research papers

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Post by trenchgun »

sva_ wrote: post #112

I have a feeling that the tree structure of comments in which most of the discussion usually takes place under the first few most upvoted comments might not be the best to have scientific discourse, but also don't know what would be better. On the other hand, papers/journals themselves could be seen as a ultra-high latency social network in which replies happen in the form of papers that reference the work they're re…

> but also don't know what would be better.

References. Ie. a directed graph.

Re: Show HN: HackerNews but for research papers

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Post by trenchgun »

aDyslecticCrow wrote: post #111
dguest wrote: post #47

I think the ideal future for science publication would be something like: - some database like arXiv for most all the results, obviously mirrored a few places - multiple frontends like this! - no more journals: replace journal review with an endorsement from a similar organization, on the arXiv (or similar) page Thanks for taking one of the required steps to making this possible!

The quality standard of peer review, especially within computer science, is declining. I've read lots of papers only to discover obvious method flaws or dishonest statistics. With a simple comment section, this would be trivial to filter out. And don't get me started on the price for publication and for readers that supposedly fund this "detailed peer review process" that misses so many obvious flaws. The peer review…

>With a simple comment section, this would be trivial to filter out.

Pubpeer.com + browser plugin

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