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Show HN: Y Recombinator – The HN threads HN keeps recommending (yrecombinator.org)

1 points by nightjar ↗ HN
A lot of the best stuff I've read on HN I found through a comment saying "this old thread is worth reading." So, I tried to collect all of them!

It takes every HN comment that links to another HN item, drops the dupe/previous discussion/related links, and uses Sonnet to decide which of the rest are actual recommendations. Then it ranks them by how many different people recommended each one.

The Dropbox comment is #1, which I guess is no surprise. Further down there's a lot I hadn't seen.

If you swap news.ycombinator.com for yrecombinator.org in an item link, you can see who recommended it.

Inspired by Karpathy's HackerTube: https://yrecombinator.org/item?id=50319510

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adrianwaj
Might even be worth providing an API for this. But that may end up becoming part of the official one.

Another interesting variation would be to tally "Author here" comments and users and find a viewport into that.

Another variation would be to do the equivalent of a discography for users. Track all the apps and articles associated with a various user, whether they are still up, but also give an opt-out feature too. A Hackerpedia.

nightjar
Oh that’s a cool idea! Currently there is no API because I wanted to make it fully static, but everything behind it can be downloaded from the data page (https://yrecombinator.org/data). That covers every item, every comment counted as a recommendation (with label, strength, and quote) and all ~400k HN-to-HN links. It’s ODC-BY so if HN ever wanted it, they would be welcome to it.

“Author here” is a fun one too. I did a quick regex and roughly 11k comments open with a variation of “Author here” from about 5,800 users. I can take a look. Thanks!

adrianwaj
Thanks for that, I've been running text-to-speech encoding on /bestcomments under 120 words at http://bighits.future-secured.com - so that's a good new data source for additional comments to include if need be and can then put recommendations underneath.
nightjar
I just built and deployed the Author Here idea: https://yrecombinator.org/author-here.

Threads where the author of the article or project showed up in the comments (~5,200 threads and ~3,900 authors). Thanks for the idea!