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Why not link http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2016.1217030 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2016.1217030 directly then?
by iso-8859-1 10y ago
Why not link http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2016.1217030 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2016.1217030 directly then?
- dang 10y agoFor stories about specialist research, we've found that HN works better with the most substantive popular article, plus a link to the paper in the comments. It's true that the 'most substantive' popular article is often still rather weak, making more out of the paper than there is, etc., but HN readers tend to point this out in the thread, and the alternative (linking to the paper first) doesn't seem to work as well for discussion–the barrier feels too sheer. It's different with papers in fields where the HN audience tends to have a lot of specialists, such as computing. Edit: contradicting what I said above, here's a counterexample: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12361666 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12361666. There are always exceptions.