Infinite Monkeys
Learning and science
curated comment collection
SHOW HN2015
How HN took it
4 positive, 4 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 1 critical, out of 9 comments about the project. Thread score +0.26.
Idea: 1 for, 1 againstExecution: 1 for, 0 againstDocs: 1 for, 0 againstDesign: 1 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
Readable as an epub and HTML version
From 2 comments
Awesome work. Thanks a lot for this. Reading on a epub is so much better than digging through the HN posts.
laex on HNThe HTML version is now linked, enjoy!
chaghalibaghali on HN
Good collection of comments
From 1 comment
From the name I thought it was going to be a book of text generated by a Markov chain trained on HN comment data. Took me a while to figure out it wasn't. Anyway, good collection…
jdiez17 on HN
Objections
Curation without context may be less useful
From 1 comment
Not entirely sure that would be useful. Without handpicked curation you will lack context in many instances.
BinaryIdiot on HN
Requests
Add an HTML version or gh-pages site
From 2 comments
May I suggest a gh-pages branch so one can view the html online?
Munksgaard on HNFrom the name I thought it was going to be a book of text generated by a Markov chain trained on HN comment data. Took me a while to figure out it wasn't. Anyway, good collection…
jdiez17 on HN
Document in the README
From 1 comment
You should write that in your README file.
bndr on HN
Separate upvotes from downvotes
From 1 comment
It'd be interesting to separate upvotes from downvotes somehow. I've observed that many of my most-upvoted comments receive a lot of downvotes as well - usually for questioning…
beat on HN
Questions
Can comments be selected algorithmically or by upvotes?
From 1 comment
Is there any way to generate this algorithmically, or otherwise view the most upvoted comments on HN?
miket on HN
Alternatives named
HN bestcomments page and lists
From 1 comment
You mean like this? https://news.ycombinator.com/bestcomments Linked via "lists" from the bottom of almost every page: https://news.ycombinator.com/lists
ColinWright on HN
hnwisdom collection project
From 1 comment
I'm currently working on a similar idea: https://github.com/TimDaub/hnwisdom I'm trying to collect wise hackernews comments.
timdaub on HN
Shit HN Says Twitter account
From 1 comment
Let us not forget https://twitter.com/shit_hn_says -- pooling the "wisdom" of Hacker News comments.
colanderman on HN