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Re: Show HN: HackerNews but for research papers

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's on the todo-list. Are you looking specifically for like sub-categories of a particular field? Like in computer science AI, Cryptography, etc.?

I work at an FPGA company so anything FPGA-related would be cool :) To capture the most popular topics, you can grab the topics of the top N most attended academic conferences as a starting point

Amazing idea, thank you!!

Re: Show HN: HackerNews but for research papers

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Huh. You know, I think HackerNews folks must approach literature searches and reading academic papers differently from the scholarly world at large. I can't think of any of my colleagues who would be looking for an algorithmically driven feed of papers to peruse. Usually we have specific questions we are trying to answer in research.

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Oh hell yeah! It can be hard to sift through the all the random papers on Arxiv or something, but I do try my best to keep up with current research. Obviously I don't have the time or ability to read every single paper (much as I wish I could!), but I do try and at least read the abstract, introduction, and conclusion to CS papers that are relevant to me, though the "relevant to me" part can be hard to figure out a l…

I'm using Astro with React and Supabase. haha in regards to scaling I know what I built isn't ready but I figured I'd worry about that bridge after I run into problems.

Re: Show HN: HackerNews but for research papers

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I love the idea and simplicity, thank you for sharing! Small bit of feedback: would it be possible to make the UI a bit more mobile friendly? Or, alternatively, is there an API that others could use to build different interfaces? Again, this is a Thing That Should Exist, so thank you for bringing it into the world.

I second this. Mobile is how I primarily read news. IMO it should be the first platform you support.
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