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Re: Show HN: I made Hacker News but for research papers

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Post by cobertos »

albertzeyer wrote: post #10

The 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.

Is that a problem though? HN covers a very broad spectrum yet it still functions.

Keeping it broad by allowing any topic but raising the bar to require a peer reviewed paper might even decrease the velocity of conversation, allowing better quality conversation. That is, if the lower velocity can allow a community to form still

Re: Show HN: I made Hacker News but for research papers

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Post by sideproject »

Related, but I created Scholars

https://www.scholars.io

Where researchers and others interested can create "reading rooms" of papers and discuss. I have also been thinking about something similar to this where a list of papers that people are currently discussing is shown.

This looks great too!

Re: Show HN: I made Hacker News but for research papers

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Post by afandian »

eddsh1994 wrote: post #13
riku_iki wrote: post #7

why 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.

There's also the risk of not getting that halo effect and passing footfall.

There was something similar a few years back, upvote.pub: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16273171

I don't know the reasons for it folding, but I imagine it was difficult to sustain.

Re: Show HN: I made Hacker News but for research papers

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Post by kashnote »

xrisk wrote: post #20
teddyh wrote: post #14

HN 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.

This is actually what I'm going for, which is why I described it as "Hacker New but for research papers." I think it'll definitely be possible with proper moderation

Re: Show HN: I made Hacker News but for research papers

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Post by riku_iki »

eddsh1994 wrote: post #13
riku_iki wrote: post #7

why 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.

> users come from other subreddits where the standards of comments tend to be more copypasta troll-like than HN.

I somehow didn't notice this on relevant subs (machinelearning, singularity, etc)

Re: Show HN: I made Hacker News but for research papers

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Post by amir734jj »

sideproject wrote: post #22

Related, but I created Scholars https://www.scholars.io Where researchers and others interested can create "reading rooms" of papers and discuss. I have also been thinking about something similar to this where a list of papers that people are currently discussing is shown. This looks great too!

Is there a way to see what other people are reading and if I could join/collaborate with them?

Re: Show HN: I made Hacker News but for research papers

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Post by danielecook »

A few years ago I created upvote.pub (source code: https://github.com/danielecook/upvote.pub)

It never really caught on - but it was a fun project. I do hope something like this takes off. It was able to import publications using DOIs, PMIDs, PMCids, Arxiv, and Biorxiv.

Re: Show HN: I made Hacker News but for research papers

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Post by serial_dev »

albertzeyer wrote: post #10

The 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.

I actually enjoyed that the topics are broad. I studied physics, but worked as a software developer my whole life.

The topics on the site are stuff that I was interested in at some point in my life: python, GRBs, code style, whatever GPT, thermodynamics and communication.

I used to read papers but I don't anymore, and this site lets me keep discovering topics even if I'm not a scientist anymore. I don't need 25 posts a day on gamma ray bursts, I want one post a week and a fun discussion (which isn't there yet).

Re: Show HN: I made Hacker News but for research papers

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Post by rvbissell »

kashnote wrote: post #24
xrisk wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

This is actually what I'm going for, which is why I described it as "Hacker New but for research papers." I think it'll definitely be possible with proper moderation

Thoughts:

* Allow logged in users to add tags to submissions (maybe after reaching some karma threshold). Tags could either be a private feature, or a shared feature.

* Allow filtering of all submissions by one or more tags

* "Favorites" feature for logged in users

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