1. Please, consider to always include the latest What Are You Working On posts. For instance, this latest one posted 16 hours ago is not included yet (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45869146).
2. Also, it may be better to include ONLY top-level comments and not replies. For instance, the second row appearing on the list says "Thanks for the the kind words.." by @rubansk is a reply and not a root comment which may be of a little value here.
3. For the UI, when I sort by columns "AUTHOR" or "POSTED", the table would take a different size?! It would be nice to keep the size of the table fixed.
Personally, I find little value in most of the tags. To me, many of them just say "Coders gonna code."
It would be more interesting if you could tag the projects based on their subject matter: What problem are they working on, what subject area, what change are they hoping to bring to the world?
I recently left (or rather, was semi-forced out from) reddit. Hackernews does not have crazy moderators or at the least not as many; there is more free-form discussion, which is great.
Still, a few things I like. I used old.reddit.com, but even that seems to be a bit better than the default UI on hacker news. I don't mind the UI, but I found old.reddit.com easier and faster to use (the new reddit UI is just garbage though). It would be nice if hackernews could add more features that are SIMPLE and also simple improves to the layout - again, just very small and careful changes; people dislike any change to their workflows, so hackernews should make these conservatively and only little; and perhaps with a limit per year or every 5 years or so.
Content-wise I have no huge issue, although I'd like more grouping, as some news are interesting, others not so much (to me). Reading just the title is often not enough; some good articles have horrible titles and vice versa.
I have a clone of the old school Reddit up and running. I’m not quite sure where to take it - on one hand I don’t want to open it to a wide audience because I don’t want the burden of moderation, on the other hand Reddit gets increasingly problematic on so many levels and I miss losing out on legitimately good online spaces for some of my hobbies & interests.
I've thought long and hard about how a new comer could get around the issues but never came up with anything rock solid. SMS / Email is maximum sign up resistance but could help. Also being able to browse before making an account is key for new users but then you're open to bots.
For quickly skimming the list, I think it would be useful to add a short, standardized summary for each project. These summaries should be easy to generate automatically with any LLM of your choice.
I have a similar tool for organizing the “Who Is Hiring” threads [1] that uses GPT to provide a quick overview. It’s still running on an old model version from 2023, yet it has been working surprisingly well for over two years now with basically zero maintenance.
As a kind of "AI first" take on this, I created a small Jupyter notebook that uses the Nthesis api which shapes, tags, etc. based on LLM instructions. It also has built in RAG which makes it possible to chat with the documents and has some interesting UMAP based visualizations.
I just posted recently in the thread so would have expected to see my post somewhere on this site near the front page. Granted, I guess HN already has a new/hot algorithm, so perhaps you didn't want to reinvent the wheel and instead focus on search.
I was planning to do this for every single post ever made in this category with traffic tracking, linkedin profiles of people at work, how much funding have they raised or how much ARR / MRR for bootstrapped projects. how many are open source on github but you beat me to it lol
Despite being a software dev and more invested than the average person, I don't feel like there are that many websites or applications I use really. But there are the best part of a thousand webapps being developed there. I was mulling over starting a language learning platform, but there seem to be 133 being worked on just by people who've posted to HN to say they're working on one.
No wonder most of us seem to struggle with getting traction.
- When you select some tags, list can overflow horizontally and first column with tags is only partially visible. Happened to me when selecting "hardware" tag.
- When you select prev/next or tag, list could scroll to top
actually, I find the scrolling & browsing here very convenient? And stressless? No adds, no dynamic bullshit loaded, and AgoliaSearch does a quite decent job (while making contrary impression, I agree)
And HN is a website than can be loaded on a smartphone even with superslow connectivitiy :-))
What is the system behind the distinction between “high-level” and “low-level” tags? For example, why is "artificial intelligence" high level, but "cloud computing" low level? Why is "tool" on both levels for the same entry?
I have a new computing architecture hard/soft/comms from the ground up and a new AGI model. New algorithms for GC and defrag. New O(1) sorting algorithm.
Nice work, thanks for sharing!
Here's my feedback..
1. Please, consider to always include the latest What Are You Working On posts. For instance, this latest one posted 16 hours ago is not included yet (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45869146).
2. Also, it may be better to include ONLY top-level comments and not replies. For instance, the second row appearing on the list says "Thanks for the the kind words.." by @rubansk is a reply and not a root comment which may be of a little value here.
3. For the UI, when I sort by columns "AUTHOR" or "POSTED", the table would take a different size?! It would be nice to keep the size of the table fixed.
Just my two cents..
Personally, I find little value in most of the tags. To me, many of them just say "Coders gonna code."
It would be more interesting if you could tag the projects based on their subject matter: What problem are they working on, what subject area, what change are they hoping to bring to the world?
This is great!
1. Does it include comments from ALL previous WAYWO posts?
2. Add navigation by page too. Currently I can press next, but it does not reflect in the URL, which means I can't jump to middle or at the end.
Looks like that paging is artificial and data is loaded once on first load. You could also add how many posts to show on single page.
Ideas:
1. Optionally allow all pages to be shown at once (no pagination).
2. Provide a "download all as JSON" button.
3. Allow the use of an LLM to filter through these comments.
Very cool - thanks!
On mobile I’d prefer to be able to just keep scrolling instead of having to tap ‘next page’, scroll to the top, then scroll down again
I recently left (or rather, was semi-forced out from) reddit. Hackernews does not have crazy moderators or at the least not as many; there is more free-form discussion, which is great.
Still, a few things I like. I used old.reddit.com, but even that seems to be a bit better than the default UI on hacker news. I don't mind the UI, but I found old.reddit.com easier and faster to use (the new reddit UI is just garbage though). It would be nice if hackernews could add more features that are SIMPLE and also simple improves to the layout - again, just very small and careful changes; people dislike any change to their workflows, so hackernews should make these conservatively and only little; and perhaps with a limit per year or every 5 years or so.
Content-wise I have no huge issue, although I'd like more grouping, as some news are interesting, others not so much (to me). Reading just the title is often not enough; some good articles have horrible titles and vice versa.
I have a clone of the old school Reddit up and running. I’m not quite sure where to take it - on one hand I don’t want to open it to a wide audience because I don’t want the burden of moderation, on the other hand Reddit gets increasingly problematic on so many levels and I miss losing out on legitimately good online spaces for some of my hobbies & interests.
The challenge of moderation is a can of worms.
I've thought long and hard about how a new comer could get around the issues but never came up with anything rock solid. SMS / Email is maximum sign up resistance but could help. Also being able to browse before making an account is key for new users but then you're open to bots.
Anyone got some good idears?
How can you be forced out of reddit? You could just make a new username surely?
Nice idea!
For quickly skimming the list, I think it would be useful to add a short, standardized summary for each project. These summaries should be easy to generate automatically with any LLM of your choice.
I have a similar tool for organizing the “Who Is Hiring” threads [1] that uses GPT to provide a quick overview. It’s still running on an old model version from 2023, yet it has been working surprisingly well for over two years now with basically zero maintenance.
[1] https://www.hacker-jobs.com/
As a kind of "AI first" take on this, I created a small Jupyter notebook that uses the Nthesis api which shapes, tags, etc. based on LLM instructions. It also has built in RAG which makes it possible to chat with the documents and has some interesting UMAP based visualizations.
https://nthesis.ai/public/hn-who-is-hiring
https://nthesis.ai/public/hn-working-on
> some analysis of project types over time to see changes in tech
Great idea! I'd love to see some stats on the high and low level tags.
What's the default sorting algorithm?
I just posted recently in the thread so would have expected to see my post somewhere on this site near the front page. Granted, I guess HN already has a new/hot algorithm, so perhaps you didn't want to reinvent the wheel and instead focus on search.
I was planning to do this for every single post ever made in this category with traffic tracking, linkedin profiles of people at work, how much funding have they raised or how much ARR / MRR for bootstrapped projects. how many are open source on github but you beat me to it lol
There's so much duplication, or overlap at least.
Despite being a software dev and more invested than the average person, I don't feel like there are that many websites or applications I use really. But there are the best part of a thousand webapps being developed there. I was mulling over starting a language learning platform, but there seem to be 133 being worked on just by people who've posted to HN to say they're working on one.
No wonder most of us seem to struggle with getting traction.
- List of available tags would be even cooler.
- When you select some tags, list can overflow horizontally and first column with tags is only partially visible. Happened to me when selecting "hardware" tag.
- When you select prev/next or tag, list could scroll to top
- It also often picks up irrelevant comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45421459
This is cool, I don't see my comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45869146#45869388) indexed though
>browsing thousands of comments is a pain
s.replace("thousands of comments","HN")
actually, I find the scrolling & browsing here very convenient? And stressless? No adds, no dynamic bullshit loaded, and AgoliaSearch does a quite decent job (while making contrary impression, I agree)
And HN is a website than can be loaded on a smartphone even with superslow connectivitiy :-))
What is the system behind the distinction between “high-level” and “low-level” tags? For example, why is "artificial intelligence" high level, but "cloud computing" low level? Why is "tool" on both levels for the same entry?
Because AI is an end and cloud computing is a means
good idea! somehow i think @martinraag (0) and @Joeboy (2) should talk
0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43157252
1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44704131
How did you determine the tags?
with AI, I guess.
Thank you for this. I did a search filter on my username and have a good memory trace back. I really need it!
Very cool. Would be great to have upvotes for good ideas
Looks good, a fun project.
Does it show itself :)
Now that would be cool. Imagine infinite recursion: you see this project featured on itself, and you click it and it shows itself there, and so on.
Really nice, and also the search is satisfying snappy!
Will you provide any way for users to request their comments be removed from your site?
I have a new computing architecture hard/soft/comms from the ground up and a new AGI model. New algorithms for GC and defrag. New O(1) sorting algorithm.
it's interesting.. we can find many ideas here
really cool!
cool!