PaperTalk

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319points
208comments
#182of 3,515 in 2024
Top 6%of 2024 by points

How HN took it

MixedNo clear lean

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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What HN said

What people liked

  • 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 HN
    • Oh 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 HN
    • I 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 HN
    • I 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 HN
    • mobile 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
    • Mobile 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 HN
    • Looks amazing! UI Request: Make the font darker. That light font on a light background is extremely hard to read.
      kevmo on HN
    • Great 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 HN
    • Sign in isn't working for me after confirming my email on both Chrome and Safari.
      asow92 on HN
    • Sign 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 HN
    • You 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 HN
    • Needs 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 HN
    • mobile 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 HN
    • How about Bio and Chem as well?
      breck on HN
    • When 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 HN
    • Cool! 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
  • Is there an RSS feed?

    From 1 comment

Alternatives named

  • Emergent Mind

    From 1 comment
  • 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

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