PaperTalk
Productivity
research paper discussion
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How HN took it
14 positive, 54 neutral or asking, 5 mixed, 39 critical, out of 112 comments about the project. Thread score -0.21.
Execution: 0 for, 19 againstDesign: 3 for, 13 againstIdea: 9 for, 5 againstPerformance: 0 for, 1 againstDocs: 0 for, 1 against
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Good concept, fills a gap for following research
From 3 comments
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…
iamthefury on HNOh 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…
tombert on HNI love love love this idea! The papers all look like they're from April? Any chance to get more recent stuff?
suchintan on HN
Clean HN-like design
From 2 comments
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…
dirtybirdnj on HNI 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…
zerojames on HN
Objections
Mobile layout broken
From 3 comments
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
easeout on HNmobile 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…
kaiokendev on HNMobile view is broken
brucenanner on HN
Light gray text hard to read
From 3 comments
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.
lordofgibbons on HNLooks amazing! UI Request: Make the font darker. That light font on a light background is extremely hard to read.
kevmo on HNGreat 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…
SKILNER on HN
Sign-up email rate limit and login failures
From 3 comments
Trying to create an account, says "Email rate limit exceeded".
iamthirsty on HNSign in isn't working for me after confirming my email on both Chrome and Safari.
asow92 on HNSign in doesn't show an error or log me in on mobile.
DarkContinent on HN
Few papers and little community discussion to start
From 2 comments
I'm a career scientist and here's why I suspect this won't take off: (1) A lot of research is trash and not reproducible. Over the last 5 years I've found it's usually not even…
mustang-med on HNYou 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.…
iamwil on HN
Requests
Search by keyword, title, author, DOI
From 2 comments
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.)
azhenley on HNNeeds a search for sure
cmcconomy on HN
Link to arXiv page instead of PDF
From 2 comments
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…
aDyslecticCrow on HNmobile 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…
kaiokendev on HN
More subject areas such as bio, chem, physics, health
From 3 comments
Biochemistry subject seems to be missing Edit: law, taxes, accounting, physics, astronomy, communications, zoology, weather just to name a few more topics
2Gkashmiri on HNHow about Bio and Chem as well?
breck on HNWhen I saw Research Papers I expected a Health category, any chance?
helph67 on HN
Tags and subcategories
From 2 comments
Tags would be great
downboots on HNCool! 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…
avnd on HN
Questions
Will it be open source?
From 1 comment
This is a really cool idea! Is this open source?
the_real_cher on HN
Is there an RSS feed?
From 1 comment
Is there an RSS feed I can subscribe to?
dwiechert on HN
Alternatives named
Emergent Mind
From 1 comment
Is this not https://www.emergentmind.com/ ?
mvkel on HN
Upvote.pub
From 1 comment
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…
danielecook on HN
Papers We Love and PL conference lists
From 1 comment
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,…
armchairhacker on HN