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78points
26comments
#342of 2,565 in 2015
Top 14%of 2015 by points

How HN took it

MixedNo clear lean

2 positive, 5 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 4 critical, out of 11 comments about the project. Thread score -0.20.

Execution: 0 for, 2 againstIdea: 0 for, 1 againstDocs: 0 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

  • Filtering by category is useful for reading HN

    From 3 comments
    • Awesome :]
      res0nat0r on HN
    • I'd like to be able to select multiple categories (for example, "programming" AND "science" AND "security"). Also, there's no obvious way to indicate an incorrect categorization…
      yellowapple on HN
    • Would it be possible to add RSS feeds for each category page? I currently read HN via an RSS reader and filter out any articles with less than 10 points. I would much rather…
      dkubb on HN

Objections

  • About 25% of categorisations are wrong

    From 2 comments
    • I found that I disagree with about 25% of the categorisations.
      onion2k on HN
    • I'd like to be able to select multiple categories (for example, "programming" AND "science" AND "security"). Also, there's no obvious way to indicate an incorrect categorization…
      yellowapple on HN
  • Chart is unnecessary

    From 1 comment
    • Direct link: http://hackernews.demos.monkeylearn.com/ Personally, I don't really see a reason for the chart. It would be nice to have a way to disable it.
      markild on HN

Requests

  • Filter out political posts

    From 1 comment
    • This would be fantastic if there was just a filter to hide all of the political posts here yet still show everything else.
      res0nat0r on HN
  • Allow selecting multiple categories

    From 1 comment
    • I'd like to be able to select multiple categories (for example, "programming" AND "science" AND "security"). Also, there's no obvious way to indicate an incorrect categorization…
      yellowapple on HN
  • Feedback to correct miscategorised posts

    From 1 comment
    • I'd like to be able to select multiple categories (for example, "programming" AND "science" AND "security"). Also, there's no obvious way to indicate an incorrect categorization…
      yellowapple on HN
  • RSS feeds per category

    From 1 comment
    • Would it be possible to add RSS feeds for each category page? I currently read HN via an RSS reader and filter out any articles with less than 10 points. I would much rather…
      dkubb on HN

Questions

  • Why supervised learning instead of clustering?

    From 1 comment
    • Just curious, why did you decide to use a supervised learning approach for this? You're hard-coding the categories in this manner. You could try using clustering instead…
      primaryobjects on HN
  • What does the X-axis of the graph show?

    From 1 comment

Alternatives named

  • Subreddits

    From 2 comments
    • You reinvented subreddits.
      keypusher on HN
    • Subreddits are a way to form communities centred around a theme or concept; this is a way to filter out the noise that you're not interested in. Very very different.
      keslag on HN

Category, keywords, summaries and labels on this page were made by AI (Thread Reader v2) and not checked by hand. Each point links to the comments it came from.

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