TechYaks
Consumer and social
tech talk ranking site
SHOW HN2018
How HN took it
6 positive, 23 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 5 critical, out of 35 comments about the project. Thread score +0.04.
Idea: 3 for, 4 againstDesign: 3 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.
positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Clean, minimal UI that works as advertised
From 3 comments
This looks awesome! I haven’t heard of most of these talks so I’m excited to dive in this weekend. Also, kudos on the UI. It’s minimal, easy to use, and works as advertised. Good…
robax on HNExcellent set of links, plus I love the simple UI.
icc97 on HN> It’s minimal, easy to use, and works as advertised. Good software It sucks that these are rare nowadays. Maybe I could start a suckless list :)
O_H_E on HN
Good collection of talks and links
From 2 comments
Excellent set of links, plus I love the simple UI.
icc97 on HNawesome awesome. I've given up going to meetups and conferences, looking at youtube is so much better for finding good content. I'd love other languages and software topics too.
rb808 on HN
Objections
Dataset is mostly recent talks and misses well-known classics
From 3 comments
Maybe these are mostly too new, or you have different (more practical, hands on?) definition of tech-talk - but from a quick look the only speakers I expected - and found - were…
e12e on HNIt's telling that 95% of the most upvoted talks from 'all time' are all after 2010
platz on HNAny 70s/80s/90s talks?
zerr on HN
Relies on YouTube, which lacks some talks' proper copies
From 2 comments
The issue seems to be that they are not typically watched on youtube. For example, the "simple made easy" linked above is a low-quality pirate youtube copy, the proper place to…
Tuna-Fish on HNIs your dataset limited to only videos on youtube? The Fronteers conference has been publishing its videos on vimeo, and that includes some really "awesome" ones:…
svl on HN
Requests
Topic tags or filters
From 2 comments
Would be awesome if they were tagged, so I could look at topics I'm interested in.
DerSaidin on HNawesome awesome. I've given up going to meetups and conferences, looking at youtube is so much better for finding good content. I'd love other languages and software topics too.
rb808 on HN
Search or string match filter
From 1 comment
Nice! Is it possible to implement some kind of search based filter? Just a simple string match would be awesome :)
dstick on HN
Historical talks category
From 2 comments
Nice idea. Would like to see extended to broader topics. For example on talks about history.
mongol on HNI mean "regular history". About ancient civilizations, bronze age collapse, Napoleon, the Russian revolution, things like that. It is a personal preference for me to listen to…
mongol on HN
Digest of top talks over a recent time period
From 1 comment
>"interest in a “top tech talks” in the last month (or X unit of time) style of digest." Yes!
chrisweekly on HN
Questions
What is the 50k talk pool and selection criteria
From 2 comments
What is "50k"? What's your criteria on selecting talks?
suyash on HNso your pool is limited 50k talks ?
suyash on HN
Which sources were used
From 1 comment
Nice! Which sources did you focus on?
ILikeConemowk on HN
Alternatives named
findlectures.com
From 1 comment
I built something with a broader dataset but a different ranking technique, basically a bunch of cruder custom ranking rules. https://www.findlectures.com
garysieling on HN
InfoQ
From 1 comment
The issue seems to be that they are not typically watched on youtube. For example, the "simple made easy" linked above is a low-quality pirate youtube copy, the proper place to…
Tuna-Fish on HN
Awesome talks lists
From 1 comment
Hey HN, here’s the result of gathering as many tech talks as I could find and then trying a bunch of ranking heuristics to find one that produced reasonable results. I’m…
yaj54 on HN