[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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