[HN Gopher] Show HN: What Is Hacker News Working On?
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       Show HN: What Is Hacker News Working On?
        
       I tagged all comments from "What Are You Working On?" (like
       https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45561428) posts and built a
       simple SvelteKit website, hope it's helpful to find people with
       similar projects. I'm also thinking of adding some analysis of
       project types over time to see changes in tech
        
       Author : eamag
       Score  : 205 points
       Date   : 2025-11-06 18:31 UTC (4 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (waywo.eamag.me)
 (TXT) w3m dump (waywo.eamag.me)
        
       | beingbad wrote:
       | cool!
        
       | 0_AkAsH_03 wrote:
       | it's interesting.. we can find many ideas here
        
       | looobay wrote:
       | really cool!
        
       | pell wrote:
       | How did you determine the tags?
        
         | bundie wrote:
         | with AI, I guess.
        
       | yetihehe wrote:
       | - List of available tags would be even cooler.
       | 
       | - When you select some tags, list can overflow horizontally and
       | first column with tags is only partially visible. Happened to me
       | when selecting "hardware" tag.
       | 
       | - When you select prev/next or tag, list could scroll to top
       | 
       | - It also often picks up irrelevant comments:
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45421459
        
       | nrhrjrjrjtntbt wrote:
       | Does it show itself :)
        
         | enraged_camel wrote:
         | Now that would be cool. Imagine infinite recursion: you see
         | this project featured on itself, and you click it and it shows
         | itself there, and so on.
        
       | dedosk wrote:
       | > some analysis of project types over time to see changes in tech
       | 
       | Great idea! I'd love to see some stats on the high and low level
       | tags.
        
       | benrutter wrote:
       | Really nice, and also the search is satisfying snappy!
        
       | vinhnx wrote:
       | Thank you for this. I did a search filter on my username and have
       | a good memory trace back. I really need it!
        
       | Archelaos wrote:
       | What is the system behind the distinction between "high-level"
       | and "low-level" tags? For example, why is "artificial
       | intelligence" high level, but "cloud computing" low level? Why is
       | "tool" on both levels for the same entry?
        
         | bananaflag wrote:
         | Because AI is an end and cloud computing is a means
        
       | puppion wrote:
       | Very cool. Would be great to have upvotes for good ideas
        
       | amelius wrote:
       | Ideas:
       | 
       | 1. Optionally allow all pages to be shown at once (no
       | pagination).
       | 
       | 2. Provide a "download all as JSON" button.
       | 
       | 3. Allow the use of an LLM to filter through these comments.
        
       | vivzkestrel wrote:
       | I was planning to do this for every single post ever made in this
       | category with traffic tracking, linkedin profiles of people at
       | work, how much funding have they raised or how much ARR / MRR for
       | bootstrapped projects. how many are open source on github but you
       | beat me to it lol
        
       | Benjamin_Dobell wrote:
       | What's the default sorting algorithm?
       | 
       | I just posted recently in the thread so would have expected to
       | see my post somewhere on this site near the front page. Granted,
       | I guess HN already has a new/hot algorithm, so perhaps you didn't
       | want to reinvent the wheel and instead focus on search.
        
       | user3939382 wrote:
       | I have a new computing architecture hard/soft/comms from the
       | ground up and a new AGI model. New algorithms for GC and defrag.
       | New O(1) sorting algorithm.
        
       | redbell wrote:
       | Nice work, thanks for sharing!
       | 
       | Here's my feedback..
       | 
       | 1. Please, consider to always include the latest _What Are You
       | Working On_ posts. For instance, this latest one posted 16 hours
       | ago is not included yet
       | (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45869146).
       | 
       | 2. Also, it may be better to include ONLY top-level comments and
       | not replies. For instance, the second row appearing on the list
       | says "Thanks for the the kind words.." by _@rubansk_ is a reply
       | and not a root comment which may be of a little value here.
       | 
       | 3. For the UI, when I sort by columns "AUTHOR" or "POSTED", the
       | table would take a different size?! It would be nice to keep the
       | size of the table fixed.
       | 
       | Just my two cents..
        
       | shevy-java wrote:
       | I recently left (or rather, was semi-forced out from) reddit.
       | Hackernews does not have crazy moderators or at the least not as
       | many; there is more free-form discussion, which is great.
       | 
       | Still, a few things I like. I used old.reddit.com, but even that
       | seems to be a bit better than the default UI on hacker news. I
       | don't mind the UI, but I found old.reddit.com easier and faster
       | to use (the new reddit UI is just garbage though). It would be
       | nice if hackernews could add more features that are SIMPLE and
       | also simple improves to the layout - again, just very small and
       | careful changes; people dislike any change to their workflows, so
       | hackernews should make these conservatively and only little; and
       | perhaps with a limit per year or every 5 years or so.
       | 
       | Content-wise I have no huge issue, although I'd like more
       | grouping, as some news are interesting, others not so much (to
       | me). Reading just the title is often not enough; some good
       | articles have horrible titles and vice versa.
        
         | gyomu wrote:
         | I have a clone of the old school Reddit up and running. I'm not
         | quite sure where to take it - on one hand I don't want to open
         | it to a wide audience because I don't want the burden of
         | moderation, on the other hand Reddit gets increasingly
         | problematic on so many levels and I miss losing out on
         | legitimately good online spaces for some of my hobbies &
         | interests.
        
           | pcdoodle wrote:
           | The challenge of moderation is a can of worms.
           | 
           | I've thought long and hard about how a new comer could get
           | around the issues but never came up with anything rock solid.
           | SMS / Email is maximum sign up resistance but could help.
           | Also being able to browse before making an account is key for
           | new users but then you're open to bots.
           | 
           | Anyone got some good idears?
        
         | beezlewax wrote:
         | How can you be forced out of reddit? You could just make a new
         | username surely?
        
           | timonoko wrote:
           | I was forced out of Reddit by IP-number. I changed the MAC-
           | number and that changed IP-number. Worked for a while, and
           | then they banned half of the city. Which was funny and gained
           | some notoriety at that time.
        
             | toyg wrote:
             | Just FYI, those "number" things you mention are called
             | "addresses" - IP address, MAC address... I don't know if
             | your use of "number" is an affectation or intentional, but
             | in a crowd of IT geeks it makes you look unsophisticated,
             | so to speak.
        
               | timonoko wrote:
               | I think I fare rather well on sophistication level. I do
               | know 5-7 human languages about as good as this one.
        
       | codingdave wrote:
       | Personally, I find little value in most of the tags. To me, many
       | of them just say "Coders gonna code."
       | 
       | It would be more interesting if you could tag the projects based
       | on their subject matter: What problem are they working on, what
       | subject area, what change are they hoping to bring to the world?
        
       | cs02rm0 wrote:
       | There's _so_ much duplication, or overlap at least.
       | 
       | Despite being a software dev and more invested than the average
       | person, I don't feel like there are that many websites or
       | applications I use really. But there are the best part of a
       | thousand webapps being developed there. I was mulling over
       | starting a language learning platform, but there seem to be 133
       | being worked on just by people who've posted to HN to say they're
       | working on one.
       | 
       | No wonder most of us seem to struggle with getting traction.
        
       | dayyan wrote:
       | Looks good, a fun project.
        
       | smusamashah wrote:
       | This is great!
       | 
       | 1. Does it include comments from ALL previous WAYWO posts?
       | 
       | 2. Add navigation by page too. Currently I can press next, but it
       | does not reflect in the URL, which means I can't jump to middle
       | or at the end.
       | 
       | Looks like that paging is artificial and data is loaded once on
       | first load. You could also add how many posts to show on single
       | page.
        
       | croisillon wrote:
       | good idea! somehow i think @martinraag (0) and @Joeboy (2) should
       | talk
       | 
       | 0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43157252
       | 
       | 1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44704131
        
       | marcotm wrote:
       | Nice idea!
       | 
       | For quickly skimming the list, I think it would be useful to add
       | a short, standardized summary for each project. These summaries
       | should be easy to generate automatically with any LLM of your
       | choice.
       | 
       | I have a similar tool for organizing the "Who Is Hiring" threads
       | [1] that uses GPT to provide a quick overview. It's still running
       | on an old model version from 2023, yet it has been working
       | surprisingly well for over two years now with basically zero
       | maintenance.
       | 
       | [1] https://www.hacker-jobs.com/
        
         | osigurdson wrote:
         | As a kind of "AI first" take on this, I created a small Jupyter
         | notebook that uses the Nthesis api which shapes, tags, etc.
         | based on LLM instructions. It also has built in RAG which makes
         | it possible to chat with the documents and has some interesting
         | UMAP based visualizations.
         | 
         | https://nthesis.ai/public/hn-who-is-hiring
         | 
         | https://nthesis.ai/public/hn-working-on
        
       | shortrounddev2 wrote:
       | Will you provide any way for users to request their comments be
       | removed from your site?
        
       | jabedude wrote:
       | This is cool, I don't see my comment
       | (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45869146#45869388) indexed
       | though
        
       | 867-5309 wrote:
       | >browsing thousands of comments is a pain
       | 
       | s.replace("thousands of comments","HN")
        
         | ta12653421 wrote:
         | actually, I find the scrolling & browsing here very convenient?
         | And stressless? No adds, no dynamic bullshit loaded, and
         | AgoliaSearch does a quite decent job (while making contrary
         | impression, I agree)
         | 
         | And HN is a website than can be loaded on a smartphone even
         | with superslow connectivitiy :-))
        
       | catoc wrote:
       | Very cool - thanks!
       | 
       | On mobile I'd prefer to be able to just keep scrolling instead of
       | having to tap 'next page', scroll to the top, then scroll down
       | again
        
       | vax425 wrote:
       | How about adding a column with a count of comments so we can sort
       | and get a rough idea of the most popular posts?
        
       | fumeux_fume wrote:
       | I noticed the tags could be improved by implementing some kind of
       | standardization. You may be interested in this post on HN from a
       | month ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45571423. The
       | comments also have some useful recommendations.
       | 
       | I just finished working on consulting project that involved
       | tagging corrective and preventative actions (CAPAs) for a lab to
       | help them organize some of their QA efforts. The use of LLMs for
       | tagging free-form text is a common task and I thought it would be
       | fun to experiment with different strategies for improving the
       | consistency of tags. The article above presents a good approach
       | because it's a streaming solution, but does come with drawbacks
       | (more overhead to set up and treats older data differently than
       | new data). Commenters recommend using a batch approach by
       | collecting all the text up front and then using various
       | strategies to cluster and generate tags, then use an LLM--giving
       | it the predefined tags in its prompt. Once you have enough good
       | tags you could train your own smaller model to generate tags. The
       | batch methods have lower overhead, but take more time for
       | tweaking and experimenting for your specific dataset.
       | 
       | For generating embeddings, I used Cohere's v4 embedder. I found
       | that using HDBSCAN for clustering the embeddings of the tags was
       | much more helpful than using K-means. I also learned that
       | training a Pytorch MLP to predict multiple tags was superior in
       | every aspect to training a tree-based model and gives very good
       | precision, but just OK recall due to the difficulty of nailing
       | all the tags right. I also compared gpt-5-mini and claude-
       | haiku-4.5 for generating tags. Gpt-5-mini was much slower, but
       | cheaper and better at generating good tags. Claude-haiku-4.5 was
       | not far behind and was much faster due to the absence of thinking
       | tokens, but much more expensive. The metric I used to compare the
       | LMMs on their raw tagging ability was Scikit-learns's
       | homogeneity_score.
        
       | bradly wrote:
       | This is great!
       | 
       | Couple suggestions:                 - Randomize the home page
       | results       - Link to random site
        
       | Sateeshm wrote:
       | Really well done. I'm sure it must have been a joy to use
       | Sveltekit.
        
       | eamag wrote:
       | Author here, thanks for all feedback! Answering some questions:
       | 
       | - I wanted to publish it asap and get feedback, that's why it's a
       | static website with some ui bugs, you can see a json with
       | comments in a static folder so updates have to be with something
       | like GitHub actions or I have to connect a db
       | 
       | - I included replies on purpose because I saw people saying "I'm
       | also working on this, here's my project" and I wanted to index
       | them
       | 
       | - tags are created with an llm and then there is another
       | deduplication pass to combine them. You can imagine some pros and
       | cons of this approach. I also didn't use embeddings with
       | clustering because it didn't really work for another project of
       | mine https://eamag.me/2024/Automated-Paper-Classification#icml-
       | em...
       | 
       | - it flew under radar first time I posted, but shot to a front
       | page after a second chance pool. If you want to contact me,
       | collaborate, delete data or help to improve this website - there
       | are contact options on my blog and an anonymous feedback form in
       | the footer!
        
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