Show HN: HackerNews but for research papers (papertalk.xyz)

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 that others could use to build different interfaces?

Again, this is a Thing That Should Exist, so thank you for bringing it into the world.

Tags would be great

If you had watched me use this over my shoulder for a minute, this is what you would see:

I went to the page, scanned the list to find something that has comments, but everything is listed as "0 Comments". I clicked on "Comments" for the AGI paper, but nothing happens -- it's not a link. There's no "Discuss" link. On HN clicking on the paper title opens the upstream link, not comments, but on your site I discovered that it opens the discussion page. Once there at https://www.papertalk.xyz/papers/2404.10731v1, I noticed that there are in fact 3 comments, but the comments counter at the top still says "0". The comments are also just random gibberish.

I hope you iterate on this project and that it gets massive traction!

OT: I used to see other HN-inspired forums for other topics. I remember once a data mining topic that showed up here. Can anyone here reading this share those forums as well.

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 could be helpful for indexing

.xyz ltds are blocked on some corporations for security proposes. I suggest a .com domain.

This is really cool, I'd love to see this pull data from [1] HuggingFace, [2] Replicate Hype, and [3] GitHub.

[1] https://huggingface.co/models?sort=trending

[2] https://hype.replicate.dev/

[3] https://github.com/trending

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 success.

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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 time or ability to read every single paper (much as I wish I could!), but I do try and at least read the abstract, introduction, and conclusion to CS papers that are relevant to me, though the "relevant to me" part can be hard to figure out a lot of the time.

Having an "HN-like" experience for research papers could really help with that, I love the idea!

Out of curiosity, what did you build this in? Since I do think this has potential to get to HN-levels of success in the academic world, have you thought about scaling?

Looks amazing!

UI Request: Make the font darker. That light font on a light background is extremely hard to read.

Mobile comment view is messed up on Safari.

The top level view seems to leave a bit too much margins on mobile.

Huh. You know, I think HackerNews folks must approach literature searches and reading academic papers differently from the scholarly world at large. I can't think of any of my colleagues who would be looking for an algorithmically driven feed of papers to peruse. Usually we have specific questions we are trying to answer in research.

I love the idea! But there is one little thing. I would love to see an easy and clean interface like HackerNews but using a Blue color instead. I think that would be awesome!

Is there an RSS feed I can subscribe to?

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.

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 can help me better understand something that's outside my field of expertise. But HN is not specifically for research. Thus, it feels like there is room for another space for people to come.

I like the idea of subcategories. Some notes on the experience:

  - When I load the page, it takes 1-2 seconds for papers to load. This doesn't feel great.
  - The grey colours in the list make the page hard to skim. I recommend a darker colour for the text.
  - The colour of the navigation links is too light. It is hard to see the links.
  - The information density is spot on. Amazing work!

This is a community project. Try to get a few people on one niche who know what they are talking about commenting on your site actively (This HN post may help you find those people!). If your site became good at computer vision, the field in which I work professionally, I'd be there every day.

Chech and compare layouts on a phone (y vs yours), and fix it so linebreaking matches

Looks interesting.

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Would be nice to have the journal the paper is published in on the post.

How about Bio and Chem as well?

Is this not https://www.emergentmind.com/

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Did you consider just running a Lemmy instance with perhaps different time decay parameters?

I think the ideal future for science publication would be something like:

- some database like arXiv for most all the results, obviously mirrored a few places

- multiple frontends like this!

- no more journals: replace journal review with an endorsement from a similar organization, on the arXiv (or similar) page

Thanks for taking one of the required steps to making this possible!

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 older. I think the more primitive UI will resonate with the target demographic.

Yours looks too nice for my use case honestly :) Weird complement but I really do like how it looks, you did a good job.