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SHOW HN2012
How HN took it
3 positive, 1 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 0 critical, out of 5 comments about the project. Thread score +0.29.
Idea: 3 for, 0 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
Simple and elegant, obvious in hindsight to do in the browser
From 1 comment
Agreed. I love the idea of implementing it in browser. So simple and elegant, and obvious in hindsight. Why didn't I think of it!?
noelwelsh on HN
Interesting starting point for experiments
From 1 comment
Nice work. I hope it gets more attention in the next hours. Seems like an interesting starting point for all kinds of experiments.
growt on HN
Useful for hacking on HN's interface with JS
From 1 comment
Very cool! I've been hacking around with modifying HN's interface via JS a lot recently - this will be a welcome tool in my experiments. One comment: The up/down votes are really…
polyfractal on HN
Objections
Bayes classifiers reached only about 60% accuracy in one commenter's tests
From 1 comment
I tried to train bayesian (and other) classifiers to reliably pick the same stories to read as I would. Despite looking at a variety of things - title, poster, domain, corpus…
moconnor on HN
Training on liked stories is restrictive; classifying uninteresting ones may work better
From 1 comment
Maybe it's easier simply to classify things you wouldn't want to read and hide those as less interesting. Because of the variety of topics, training something to figure out what…
gauravk92 on HN
Upvote/downvote controls are visually too strong
From 1 comment
Very cool! I've been hacking around with modifying HN's interface via JS a lot recently - this will be a welcome tool in my experiments. One comment: The up/down votes are really…
polyfractal on HN
Requests
Make the up/down vote buttons smaller or lighter
From 1 comment
Very cool! I've been hacking around with modifying HN's interface via JS a lot recently - this will be a welcome tool in my experiments. One comment: The up/down votes are really…
polyfractal on HN
Questions
Whether the HN front page ranking is already good enough
From 2 comments
As an alternative, just trust the HN home page algorithm. Stories seem to move up to a relevant max rank position, stay there and then move back down. Big stories stay in the top…
Gring on HNDon't you think that submissions are motivated by getting to the home page? So with time, submissions become similar to what's on the home page. If the home page is so bad…
Gring on HN
Alternatives named
Relying on the Hacker News home page ranking
From 1 comment
As an alternative, just trust the HN home page algorithm. Stories seem to move up to a relevant max rank position, stay there and then move back down. Big stories stay in the top…
Gring on HN
Manual curation with regex filters and votes for a newsletter
From 1 comment
Yeah, I think it shows how hard it is to classify something with such a diverse set of stories. Each week for my Hacker Newsletter project I have to come up with a short list of…
duck on HN