[HN Gopher] Show HN: HackerNews but for research papers
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       Show HN: HackerNews but for research papers
        
       Hey guys, I love HN! I wanted to extend the same aesthetic and
       community towards things beyond tech-related news.  I thought it
       would be cool to get the same quality of community gathered around
       the latest and greatest research coming out.  Let me know what you
       guys think of what I have so far. It's still early so there are
       probably bugs and other quality issues.  If there's any features
       missing that you'd want let me know.  ALSO, if any of you are
       familiar with the map of the territory of any particular field,
       please let me know! Would love to pick your brain and to come up
       with a 'most important papers' section for each field.  Thank you!!
       -stefan
        
       Author : sleno
       Score  : 183 points
       Date   : 2024-05-23 14:53 UTC (8 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.papertalk.xyz)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.papertalk.xyz)
        
       | iamthefury wrote:
       | 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.
        
         | sleno wrote:
         | I'll work on that, sorry yes i didn't spend much time on making
         | it mobile friendly yet!
        
         | montjoy wrote:
         | I second this. Mobile is how I primarily read news. IMO it
         | should be the first platform you support.
        
           | sleno wrote:
           | noted, thank you!
        
           | sleno wrote:
           | fixed mobile ui
        
         | sleno wrote:
         | fixed some mobile issues
        
       | downboots wrote:
       | Tags would be great
        
         | sleno wrote:
         | Will implement, thanks for the feedback!!
        
       | williamstein wrote:
       | 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 that it opens the discussion page. Once there at
       | https://www.papertalk.xyz/papers/2404.10731v1, I noticed that
       | there are in fact 3 comments, but the comments counter at the top
       | still says "0". The comments are also just random gibberish.
       | 
       | I hope you iterate on this project and that it gets massive
       | traction!
        
         | sleno wrote:
         | Really appreciate the feedback! I'm gonna ship this up, yes
         | there are some gibberish comments i left from testing. Thanks
         | for letting me know about the bugs, and other UI issues, will
         | fix ASAP.
        
           | arrowsmith wrote:
           | Fyi: the UI is completely broken on mobile. I cant read
           | anything at the above link because it extends off the edge of
           | the page in both directions and I can't horizontally scroll.
        
             | sleno wrote:
             | fixed some of the major issues
        
         | redbell wrote:
         | > 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.
        
       | nashashmi wrote:
       | OT: I used to see other HN-inspired forums for other topics. I
       | remember once a data mining topic that showed up here. Can anyone
       | here reading this share those forums as well.
        
       | avnd wrote:
       | Cool! Have you considered tagging/sub-categorizing? That would be
       | helpful to organize topics.
       | 
       | I've often seen papers have a list of keywords somewhere on the
       | first page that could be helpful for indexing
        
         | sleno wrote:
         | 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.?
        
           | avnd wrote:
           | 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
        
             | sleno wrote:
             | Amazing idea, thank you!!
        
       | pibefision wrote:
       | .xyz ltds are blocked on some corporations for security proposes.
       | I suggest a .com domain.
        
         | sleno wrote:
         | Thanks for letting me know, forgot about that. Will try to find
         | a domain that uses .com
        
         | factormeta wrote:
         | really? so corporations are doing ltds blocking? Why?
        
           | yjftsjthsd-h wrote:
           | Because corporate security is... the positive spin is
           | probably "heuristics" or "statistical", the negative spin is
           | "cargo cult". Lots of scams use(d) .xyz domains so just block
           | the whole TLD. Whether this is a good cost/benefit is left as
           | an exercise to the reader.
        
       | cuuupid wrote:
       | This is really cool, I'd love to see this pull data from [1]
       | HuggingFace, [2] Replicate Hype, and [3] GitHub.
       | 
       | [1] https://huggingface.co/models?sort=trending
       | 
       | [2] https://hype.replicate.dev/
       | 
       | [3] https://github.com/trending
        
         | sleno wrote:
         | I'll try to accomodate this, thanks for the feedback!
        
       | danielecook wrote:
       | I made something similar a few years ago
       | (https://github.com/danielecook/upvote.pub) and it even hit the
       | front of HN...but couldn't get enough traction. I hope yours sees
       | more success.
        
       | asow92 wrote:
       | Sign in isn't working for me after confirming my email on both
       | Chrome and Safari.
        
         | sleno wrote:
         | Sorry about that, I'm gonna have to do some testing. Works for
         | me on Brave. I'll fix ASAP
        
           | asow92 wrote:
           | Thanks! Seems to be working now. Next issue I see is that the
           | formatting of a paper discussion page seems to be rendering
           | content out of bounds of the view on mobile Safari.
        
       | tombert wrote:
       | 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 lot of the time.
       | 
       | Having an "HN-like" experience for research papers could really
       | help with that, I love the idea!
       | 
       | Out of curiosity, what did you build this in? Since I do think
       | this has potential to get to HN-levels of success in the academic
       | world, have you thought about scaling?
        
         | sleno wrote:
         | 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.
        
       | kevmo wrote:
       | Looks amazing!
       | 
       | UI Request: Make the font darker. That light font on a light
       | background is extremely hard to read.
        
         | sleno wrote:
         | Will do, thanks for the feedback!
        
       | mmoskal wrote:
       | Mobile comment view is messed up on Safari.
       | 
       | The top level view seems to leave a bit too much margins on
       | mobile.
        
         | sleno wrote:
         | Thanks for the feedback, i need to give mobile some more
         | attention. Will fix ASAP
        
       | ttpphd wrote:
       | 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.
        
         | dguest wrote:
         | A lot of my colleagues either:
         | 
         | - read arXiv (the algorithm there is pretty simple, but it's a
         | feed of sorts), or
         | 
         | - follow twitter accounts to learn about new results
         | 
         | So, like it or not, a lot of people are getting their feed from
         | algorithms.
        
           | ttpphd wrote:
           | I think you missed my point that the idea of a "feed" being
           | something scholars need is not really clear. It is more that
           | a feed is something that website developers know how to make
        
       | evilmonkey19 wrote:
       | I love the idea! But there is one little thing. I would love to
       | see an easy and clean interface like HackerNews but using a Blue
       | color instead. I think that would be awesome!
        
         | sleno wrote:
         | haha
        
       | dwiechert wrote:
       | Is there an RSS feed I can subscribe to?
        
         | sleno wrote:
         | Not yet, noted
        
       | lordofgibbons wrote:
       | I like the concept. My feedback is to increase the color
       | contrast. It's very difficult to read with the light gray text on
       | light background. I'm using Firefox on Ubuntu.
        
         | sleno wrote:
         | Noted, thank you!
        
         | sodimel wrote:
         | Yeah the contrast needs to be improved:
         | https://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/?fcolor=A6ADBB&...
        
         | jug wrote:
         | I agree. I honestly think the UX would be much better if it
         | just looked exactly like HN but with a new color other than
         | orange.
        
       | zerojames wrote:
       | I am glad to see more projects in the vein of helping people find
       | research papers. I am delighted by the discourse of papers on HN.
       | Indeed, the comments on research papers here can help me better
       | understand something that's outside my field of expertise. But HN
       | is not specifically for research. Thus, it feels like there is
       | room for another space for people to come.
       | 
       | I like the idea of subcategories. Some notes on the experience:
       | - When I load the page, it takes 1-2 seconds for papers to load.
       | This doesn't feel great.       - The grey colours in the list
       | make the page hard to skim. I recommend a darker colour for the
       | text.       - The colour of the navigation links is too light. It
       | is hard to see the links.       - The information density is spot
       | on. Amazing work!
       | 
       | This is a community project. Try to get a few people on one niche
       | who know what they are talking about commenting on your site
       | actively (This HN post may help you find those people!). If your
       | site became good at computer vision, the field in which I work
       | professionally, I'd be there every day.
        
         | sleno wrote:
         | Really appreciate the detailed feedback. Community is the hard
         | part for sure, will do my best to make it as good as HN
        
       | breck wrote:
       | Looks interesting.
       | 
       | FYI. I tried signing up. Got: "Email rate limit exceeded"
        
         | sleno wrote:
         | Sorry, didn't expect to get as much traction as this has been
         | getting. Need to do some scaling haha
        
       | thegabez wrote:
       | Would be nice to have the journal the paper is published in on
       | the post.
        
         | sleno wrote:
         | Noted, thanks!
        
       | breck wrote:
       | How about Bio and Chem as well?
        
         | sleno wrote:
         | Relatively easy to add, glad to know people are interested in
         | these fields as well.
        
         | brnaftr361 wrote:
         | Seconding this, I love HN because it gives a wide gamut of
         | exposure, it's a glorious nexus of information, however as a
         | MolB I'd love to have something more narrow when it comes to
         | narrowing things down to academic work.
        
       | mvkel wrote:
       | Is this not https://www.emergentmind.com/
       | 
       | ?
        
         | sleno wrote:
         | Looks quite similar, never heard of it but will take a look
        
           | sleno wrote:
           | Took a look. Emergent mind looks really polished, however
           | it's tailored towards only AI it looks like.
        
             | matt1 wrote:
             | Hey all, Matt here, Emergent Mind's founder.
             | 
             | Yes, Emergent Mind is 100% focused on AI/ML papers from
             | arXiv. I think it makes more sense to focus on a niche
             | because you can tailor everything to that niche, vs
             | creating a general research paper site which won't wind up
             | speaking to any audience well.
             | 
             | For anyone curious about Emergent Mind: it surfaces
             | trending AI/ML papers by monitoring social media
             | (HackerNews, Reddit, X, YouTube, and GitHub) for
             | discussions about papers, then ranks them based on the
             | amount of engagement they're getting (similar to how
             | HackerNews uses upvotes). Then, for all trending papers, it
             | automatically summarizes them using GPT-4o and links to
             | relevant discussions so you can learn more.
             | 
             | We're working on a bunch of new capabilities that we'll
             | announce soon too.
             | 
             | Feedback welcome: matt@emergentmind.com
        
       | mrtesthah wrote:
       | Did you consider just running a Lemmy instance with perhaps
       | different time decay parameters?
        
         | sleno wrote:
         | Can you explain? Don't know what a Lemmy instance is. I did
         | think about using time decay to give a more HN-like experience
         | but haven't gotten around to implementing it yet.
        
       | dguest wrote:
       | 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!
        
         | sleno wrote:
         | Appreciate it man, thank you
        
         | aDyslecticCrow wrote:
         | 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 process is still needed, but I would love to
         | see it be more public. I've been wanting this exact thing for
         | years. A simple comment section of the average readers and
         | their thoughts.
        
       | dirtybirdnj wrote:
       | Looks neat, is this a self-made thing or a project one could use
       | to deploy a similar forum? I've been noodling on the idea of a HN
       | style board for a non-tech audience that is older. I think the
       | more primitive UI will resonate with the target demographic.
       | 
       | Yours looks too nice for my use case honestly :) Weird complement
       | but I really do like how it looks, you did a good job.
        
         | sleno wrote:
         | Thanks man, yeah self-made. Obviously took a lot of inspiration
         | from HN haha
        
       | sharpshadow wrote:
       | I'm sorry but this website doesn't work without JS.
       | 
       | I'm able to use almost every feature on HN without JS.
        
       | mmettler wrote:
       | Once this is functional and of there is even a small community,
       | I'd visit!
       | 
       | +1 for tags / categories.
        
       | DarkContinent wrote:
       | Sign in doesn't show an error or log me in on mobile.
        
         | sleno wrote:
         | Noted, will look into this thank you
        
       | big_paps wrote:
       | Well, this project still has massive shortcomings.. why not
       | polish it a little bit more before posting ?
        
         | sleno wrote:
         | Didn't want to spend more time building something that people
         | weren't interested in. But i'm happy it seems a lot of people
         | resonate with the idea. Sorry for the shortcomings, will try to
         | shape things up to be much more usable in the next week.
        
           | ghufran_syed wrote:
           | Strongly agree with your approach: "If you're not embarrassed
           | by the first version of your product, you've launched too
           | late"
        
             | sleno wrote:
             | <3
        
       | roger_ wrote:
       | Been looking for something like this for ages -- great job!
       | 
       | Would be nice to see a category for electrical engineering.
       | Things like digital/statistical signal processing, electronics,
       | RF, etc. that don't always fit into math/ CS.
        
         | sleno wrote:
         | Appreciate the feedback, noted!
        
       | suchintan wrote:
       | I love love love this idea! The papers all look like they're from
       | April? Any chance to get more recent stuff?
        
         | sleno wrote:
         | Gotta re-run my scraping program, will get the latest papers
         | from arxiv.org
        
       | SKILNER wrote:
       | Great idea, thanks for doing this.
       | 
       | But - why is the most important information, the title, in such a
       | light, hard to read, font? The title should stand out, not the
       | comments count etc. See... Hackernews! :-)
        
         | sleno wrote:
         | A few people mentioned the same thing, will update accordingly.
         | Thanks for the feedback!
        
       | macawfish wrote:
       | Love it. Theme is pretty but really hard to read! Please use more
       | contrast.
        
         | sleno wrote:
         | Noted, thank you!
        
       | iamthirsty wrote:
       | Trying to create an account, says "Email rate limit exceeded".
        
         | sleno wrote:
         | Didn't expect this to get so much traction, will upgrade my
         | systems in the next week to handle more load
        
           | iamthirsty wrote:
           | Means I missed out on my desired username though!
           | 
           | No worries, looks like a cool project, I'll have to come back
           | and try again when it's fixed.
        
       | cmcconomy wrote:
       | Needs a search for sure
        
         | sleno wrote:
         | Noted, will def add thank you
        
       | 2Gkashmiri wrote:
       | Biochemistry subject seems to be missing
       | 
       | Edit: law, taxes, accounting, physics, astronomy, communications,
       | zoology, weather just to name a few more topics
        
         | sleno wrote:
         | Noted! Thanks for the feedback
        
           | 2Gkashmiri wrote:
           | can a user subscribe to a specific topic? like only econ ?
        
             | sleno wrote:
             | Not yet but happy to add something like that, someone else
             | requested something similar as well
        
               | 2Gkashmiri wrote:
               | not able to login
        
           | 2Gkashmiri wrote:
           | From: noreply@mail.app.supabase.io, To:
           | 
           | fix this in the verification email
        
             | sleno wrote:
             | Noted, will fix thank you
        
       | kaiokendev wrote:
       | mobile is non-functional: https://ibb.co/FByhmNb
       | 
       | rather than open pdf directly, it would be better to take me to
       | the arXiv page, since i can do more there (like use semantic
       | scholar to find related papers quickly)
       | 
       | i like the potential
        
         | sleno wrote:
         | Interesting idea, will consider adding this, thanks for the
         | feedback!
        
         | sleno wrote:
         | fixed some of the mobile vision issues
        
       | qbit42 wrote:
       | Just so you know, some campus networks block the .xyz domain. I
       | can't access this from my university WiFi.
        
         | echoangle wrote:
         | Have you tried switching to a public DNS server? 8.8.8.8 for
         | example? Assuming you want to circumvent the block
        
           | qbit42 wrote:
           | Yes, I know how to circumvent. Just thought the dev might
           | want to know given the audience for the website.
        
           | sleno wrote:
           | I'll try this, thanks for the tip!
        
       | drittich wrote:
       | I like the idea! A few things I noted: 1) despite the paged UI,
       | the API call /rest/v1/arxiv_papers?select=*&order=published.desc
       | is downloading all 708 articles. You will find the UI more snappy
       | if you do server-side paging. b) most of the javascript is
       | cached, but not all of it, e.g., page-script.js
        
         | sleno wrote:
         | you are correct haha, thanks for the feedback will fix this
         | pronto
        
       | while_true_ wrote:
       | I would make your website a daily destination if it had
       | 
       | -- ability for user to add/delete/modify the topic tabs. Let me
       | define the topics of interest.
       | 
       | -- Algolia or similar search box at bottom like HN has
        
         | sleno wrote:
         | Noted, will add ASAP
        
       | sleno wrote:
       | Thanks so much everyone for the feedback, did not expect this to
       | get so much support. I know there are a lot of bugs and usability
       | issues, I'll try to fix all this stuff in the next week and post
       | again.
        
       | 2Gkashmiri wrote:
       | can people submit papers/links or is it curated by you/scraped by
       | you?
        
         | sleno wrote:
         | scraped by me. you're interested in posting your own?
        
       | jononomo wrote:
       | Why does the UI make it difficult to read the text?
        
         | sleno wrote:
         | Which part(s) specifically are you having trouble reading? Are
         | you on mobile or desktop?
        
       | jononomo wrote:
       | I like this idea, but I think it would be even better if under
       | every paper title there was a 100-word AI-generated abstract that
       | states the bottom line.
        
         | sleno wrote:
         | I want to do this! Also want to let people submit edits to that
         | AI generated summary (like on github) so it can become as
         | accurate and compressed as possible.
        
       | ghufran_syed wrote:
       | I think you really want the papers posted to be driven by the
       | users. But I understand why you might want an automated approach
       | to bootstrap the site so that there is _something_ there. If you
       | 're part of a small research community, it might be worth asking
       | people to post articles they find interesting, and start by
       | constraining it to that community (relevant clip of a paul graham
       | interview: https://youtu.be/rCkCA1EaoVo?si=R6l9UNDjU0yR-fcL ,
       | which I think still applies even if this isn't meant to be a
       | "startup")
       | 
       | I wonder if this is a good format though for discussing papers? -
       | There are often lots of little sections of a paper to discuss in
       | detail, and I think it's hard to do that with a linear format of
       | comments controlled by up and down votes
        
         | sleno wrote:
         | 'There are often lots of little sections of a paper to discuss
         | in detail, and I think it's hard to do that with a linear
         | format of comments controlled by up and down votes'
         | 
         | I had exactly the same thought. Trying to think of a better way
         | to handle this. Doesn't help that PDFs are so difficult to
         | parse correctly.
        
       | CorrectingYou wrote:
       | Hi, I created an account but could not login, for some reason.
       | I'm on Brave and have some security settings on - maybe something
       | related to that? Never had issues on other websites.
       | 
       | On another note, the mobile browser version could be better - the
       | rows exceed the width of the screen.
       | 
       | But other than that, you've got something cool over here, I'll
       | bookmark it :)
        
         | sleno wrote:
         | I'm using Supabase free-tier, think I need to upgrade to allow
         | more sign ups. Mobile experience needs work, sorry about that.
         | Thanks for the feedback, cheers!
        
         | sleno wrote:
         | fixed mobile UI, also upgraded supabase, you should be able to
         | sign up now
        
       | crakenzak wrote:
       | I keep getting a "Email rate limit exceeded" when attempting to
       | create an account so I can upvote and comment.
        
       | azhenley wrote:
       | I would like to search, either by keyword, paper title, venue,
       | DOI, or author. (I was trying to see if any of my papers are on
       | here.)
        
         | sleno wrote:
         | Noted, thanks
        
       | snihalani wrote:
       | I wonder if we can ever recreate the success of hacker news.
        
       | blt wrote:
       | 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.
        
         | sleno wrote:
         | Great idea, will do this
        
           | ted_dunning wrote:
           | In case you haven't seen this, supporting latex is pretty
           | easy with MathJax
           | 
           | https://www.mathjax.org/
        
       | sva_ wrote:
       | 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 replying to.
       | 
       | The high latency could be seen as a feature. The ability to post
       | a reply instantly and without much thought definitely degrades
       | quality.
        
         | severine wrote:
         | I think you're onto something! A retrospective history of
         | science styled as an HN clone would be amazing, will any of you
         | dare?
        
           | wizzwizz4 wrote:
           | This is difficult. It should look more like a DAG than a
           | tree, but we don't have a good UI for DAG comment threads
           | yet.
        
       | aDyslecticCrow wrote:
       | 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
       | one post a paper published in IEEE, with an extra field for where
       | the paper is publicly accessible?
        
         | sleno wrote:
         | Great feedback, thank you!
        
         | SamBam wrote:
         | > I don't like being linked directly to the PDF
         | 
         | Not only that, but the button isn't even a link, so you don't
         | know where it's going to. Is this only going to be for Arxiv?
        
         | tkw01536 wrote:
         | 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.
        
       | 0x445442 wrote:
       | Sometimes HN feels like AI...
       | 
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40440870
        
         | barrenko wrote:
         | There is that theory that capitalism is just a way for AI from
         | the future to build itself.
        
       | danielmarkbruce wrote:
       | It's very broad. Tough to build a community around something so
       | broad.
        
       | atak1 wrote:
       | Great idea! Tried signing up and got `Email rate limit exceeded`.
       | 
       | Guessing this HN launch went well for you :)
        
       | iamwil wrote:
       | You need people talking about the papers. Because they're so
       | dense, I'd focus on just one specific niche topic, and get people
       | versed in that subfield talking about it on there. And start with
       | just 5 papers for people to talk about. Then once you get that
       | going, slowly expand.
        
         | sleno wrote:
         | I think you're right. I want to find experts in each field who
         | can help me create a 'most important papers' section that
         | people like me (who don't know anything) can go to to
         | understand the most important and 'hottest' ideas and see the
         | discussion around them.
        
           | emrehan wrote:
           | What iamwil says is "one niche topic", and why he says it is:
           | 
           | Such social media platforms need a small niche community to
           | get started.
           | 
           | I think such a platform would be most useful for AI papers.
           | If I were in your shoes, I'd pivot to targeting AI papers
           | only and allocate 90% of my time on community building.
        
       | the_real_cher wrote:
       | This is a really cool idea! Is this open source?
        
         | sleno wrote:
         | Not at the moment, need to think about it.
        
       | easeout wrote:
       | Great idea!
       | 
       | Please let the text wrap. My phone is narrow and I want to read
       | it. How it looks may not match your intent:
       | 
       | https://ibb.co/R0PCj16
        
         | sleno wrote:
         | My bad yeah mobile is broken rn, working on it now.
        
         | sleno wrote:
         | fixed!
        
       | TriangleEdge wrote:
       | Feedback: The UI on mobile could be improved. I find the website
       | distracting as a whole. I seems like it was built for children. I
       | think the colors are bad.
        
         | sleno wrote:
         | made some mobile fixes
        
       | ziddoap wrote:
       | My most appreciated feature of HackerNews is that I can use it
       | with JavaScript disabled. I know that I'm in the minority, but I
       | also know several other colleagues and members on this site also
       | browse without JS enabled (so while a minority, it's not _just_
       | me).
       | 
       | Something to consider, especially when your site is just serving
       | text / aggregating links.
        
       | UncleOxidant wrote:
       | The font is too light and difficult to read.
        
       | barrenko wrote:
       | Maybe add separate AI section?
        
       | yu3zhou4 wrote:
       | This is great! I think your platform can become a new go-to place
       | for keeping up with current research. I keep fingers crossed for
       | you!
       | 
       | Recently I've built something similar [0], but I struggled at
       | getting people on board after initial HN launch
       | 
       | [0] https://www.tldr-ai.org/
        
       | lamontcg wrote:
       | Pubpeer: https://pubpeer.com/
       | 
       | firefox extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-
       | US/firefox/addon/pubpeer/
        
       | brucenanner wrote:
       | Mobile view is broken
        
         | sleno wrote:
         | fixed! at least some things
        
       | h0p3 wrote:
       | Looks amazing. Thank you. I'd like to hear your opinions on
       | moderation, if you have the opportunity.
        
       | helph67 wrote:
       | When I saw Research Papers I expected a Health category, any
       | chance?
        
       | armchairhacker wrote:
       | 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.
        
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