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Show HN: Feed of current articles for science lovers shortened to bullet points

94 points by kemyd 8y ago

golem14 8y ago
https://bullets.tech/rss/latest.xml https://bullets.tech/rss/latest.xml is the RSS feed (easy to overlook on the landing page).
- kemyd 8y ago
  To be precise, you can browse Bullets.tech: 1/ via the https://bullets.tech https://bullets.tech website 2/ By signing up to the weekly newsletter on the website 3/ Using the terminal https://www.npmjs.com/package/bullets-tech-cli https://www.npmjs.com/package/bullets-tech-cli 4/ on Facebook Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/bullets.tech/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/bullets.tech/ 5/ and the RSS feed: https://bullets.tech/rss/latest.xml https://bullets.tech/rss/latest.xml
sansnomme 8y ago
Running a neural network on paper abstracts can probably get you 80% of the way to removing the need for human submitters — figuring out the remain 20% is an exercise for the reader :)
- kemyd 8y ago
  This is reasonable if you want to summarize hundreds of articles and more :) We are summarizing only 2-3 a day (we'll grow but not much). I want to create a place where people will read all summaries, even if something is out of their field of specialty.
- Stratoscope 8y ago
  80% done, 80% to go! The scary thing is this works no matter what the number is. I've had a few projects where I was 99% done... And 99% to go.
flatearther43 8y ago
Really like the clean design of the site!
kemyd 8y ago
Hi everyone! I'm Dawid, the Founder and CEO of Bootstrap Shuffle during the day and a reader interested in science at any other time. According to the study[1], emotional people (I am one of them) overestimate the knowledge they acquire by reading just the titles of articles shared on Facebook. [1] https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2053168018816189 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2053168018816189 Bullets.tech is a response to it. This is a place where we publish summaries of articles for science enthusiasts. Five bullet points or less. The very essence of the article. If you ever happened to share or like a science-related article after reading just the title, you will like our website :) If the title of an article says that "a cure for cancer has been found", our summary will allow you to find out that the article is referring to one of the hundreds of tumor types and not in humans but in mice. You can browse Bullets.tech: 1/ via the https://bullets.tech https://bullets.tech website 2/ By signing up to the weekly newsletter on the website 3/ Using the terminal https://www.npmjs.com/package/bullets-tech-cli https://www.npmjs.com/package/bullets-tech-cli 4/ on Facebook Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/bullets.tech/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/bullets.tech/ 5/ and the RSS feed: https://bullets.tech/rss/latest.xml https://bullets.tech/rss/latest.xml I am willing to collaborate with people with similar interests (science, technology, psychology, cosmos, history, medicine, nature) who would like to take part in developing this project as non-technical co-founders. PS. I copied my post from Product Hunt because it explain a lot (i think) Any questions? Maybe suggestions?
- Iv 8y ago
  Thank you for this, that's really great! You are totally right: between the full article and the (often over-hyped) title, there is a sweet spot for a short, high signal-to-noise summary. Even the abstract is often too verbose or omit some important shortcomings of the article. In some subreddits, users receive a lot of karma to do things similar to what you are doing. Usually making: - a summary of the finding (the abstract in one sentence) - a summary of the methodology (which often tells if a study is solid or not) - context to understand if this is a breakthrough, an interesting but unpractical effect, a potentially misleading discovery These are especially precious in environmental or medical research where one study may seem to say totally different things based on the overall context.
- 8y ago
dannykwells 8y ago
Seconded that this is super useful. I think it's great to start with high profile media outlets, but I'd encourage you to look towards more science-level publications as well, esp. Nature and Science.
- kemyd 8y ago
  Thank you. We will take your advice!
jelliclesfarm 8y ago
Very clean design. Thanks.
asdfzalsd 8y ago
I really like the design. I do a lot of backend dev so I gotta ask, what goes into designing a aesthetically pleasing site like that?
- kemyd 8y ago
  I created Bullets.tech using my tool https://bootstrapshuffle.com https://bootstrapshuffle.com It's of course based on Bootstrap. I like to use an online builder to experiment with fonts/colors. I found fonts here: https://fontpair.co/ https://fontpair.co/ Probably, I changed only the primary color from the default Bootstrap palette. I used one from this palette: https://flatuicolors.com/palette/ca https://flatuicolors.com/palette/ca I'm mostly backend developer like you. I experiment a lot to find something looking good!
  - type0 8y ago
    As aitchnyu allready noticed you might need to think about what fonts you use and where. Josephin Sans could work fine for aside headers but you shouldn't use it all throughout the site if you care about readability.
kkarakk 8y ago
Would it be possible to add a feature to generate a high rez image(with your watermark) for sharing on social networks apart from twitter/facebook etc? i'm thinking of the ability to share to whatsapp
rkwasny 8y ago
Thanks for the RSS feed!
victormustar 8y ago
Great idea, perhaps you could add a link to HN comments if the article is posted on HN :)
aitchnyu 8y ago
Disabling the Josephin Sans font makes it much more readable in Firefox on my FHD Dell laptop. The letters are too short and thick. I really wish designers use conservative values of font family, weight and size.
- kemyd 8y ago
  Top priority for me! Thank you for poiting this out
  - MockObject 8y ago
    Second. This site will be a welcome addition to my morning read, but that rather unique font is taxing to my eyes.
ccvannorman 8y ago
Oh my science, this is AMAZING. I can't believe how I lived before, toiling through pages of PDFs to find the actual point of papers. Thank you!
alexgotoi 8y ago
Hi Dawid, really useful resource! I would like to try a similar site for another industry/field. Can you tell me how you built the site/what theme you used?
- kemyd 8y ago
  Hi, sorry for the late reply. As I said in comments earlier, I created the theme by myself using https://bootstrapshuffle.com https://bootstrapshuffle.com
gatherhunterer 8y ago
I have been looking at this all day trying to decide how I feel about it. At the very least it is temptingly informative, which I think makes it a success. I appreciate that the summaries are manual and if bias concerns you (it should and apparently does) then just acknowledging a potential bias would be taking an appropriate nod from the scientific community.

94 points by kemyd 8y ago

https://bullets.tech/rss/latest.xml https://bullets.tech/rss/latest.xml is the RSS feed (easy to overlook on the landing page).

kemyd 8y ago
To be precise, you can browse Bullets.tech: 1/ via the https://bullets.tech https://bullets.tech website 2/ By signing up to the weekly newsletter on the website 3/ Using the terminal https://www.npmjs.com/package/bullets-tech-cli https://www.npmjs.com/package/bullets-tech-cli 4/ on Facebook Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/bullets.tech/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/bullets.tech/ 5/ and the RSS feed: https://bullets.tech/rss/latest.xml https://bullets.tech/rss/latest.xml

sansnomme 8y ago

Running a neural network on paper abstracts can probably get you 80% of the way to removing the need for human submitters — figuring out the remain 20% is an exercise for the reader :)

kemyd 8y ago
This is reasonable if you want to summarize hundreds of articles and more :) We are summarizing only 2-3 a day (we'll grow but not much). I want to create a place where people will read all summaries, even if something is out of their field of specialty.
Stratoscope 8y ago
80% done, 80% to go! The scary thing is this works no matter what the number is. I've had a few projects where I was 99% done... And 99% to go.

flatearther43 8y ago

Really like the clean design of the site!

kemyd 8y ago

Hi everyone! I'm Dawid, the Founder and CEO of Bootstrap Shuffle during the day and a reader interested in science at any other time. According to the study[1], emotional people (I am one of them) overestimate the knowledge they acquire by reading just the titles of articles shared on Facebook. [1] https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2053168018816189 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2053168018816189 Bullets.tech is a response to it. This is a place where we publish summaries of articles for science enthusiasts. Five bullet points or less. The very essence of the article. If you ever happened to share or like a science-related article after reading just the title, you will like our website :) If the title of an article says that "a cure for cancer has been found", our summary will allow you to find out that the article is referring to one of the hundreds of tumor types and not in humans but in mice. You can browse Bullets.tech: 1/ via the https://bullets.tech https://bullets.tech website 2/ By signing up to the weekly newsletter on the website 3/ Using the terminal https://www.npmjs.com/package/bullets-tech-cli https://www.npmjs.com/package/bullets-tech-cli 4/ on Facebook Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/bullets.tech/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/bullets.tech/ 5/ and the RSS feed: https://bullets.tech/rss/latest.xml https://bullets.tech/rss/latest.xml I am willing to collaborate with people with similar interests (science, technology, psychology, cosmos, history, medicine, nature) who would like to take part in developing this project as non-technical co-founders. PS. I copied my post from Product Hunt because it explain a lot (i think) Any questions? Maybe suggestions?

Iv 8y ago
Thank you for this, that's really great! You are totally right: between the full article and the (often over-hyped) title, there is a sweet spot for a short, high signal-to-noise summary. Even the abstract is often too verbose or omit some important shortcomings of the article. In some subreddits, users receive a lot of karma to do things similar to what you are doing. Usually making: - a summary of the finding (the abstract in one sentence) - a summary of the methodology (which often tells if a study is solid or not) - context to understand if this is a breakthrough, an interesting but unpractical effect, a potentially misleading discovery These are especially precious in environmental or medical research where one study may seem to say totally different things based on the overall context.
8y ago

dannykwells 8y ago

Seconded that this is super useful. I think it's great to start with high profile media outlets, but I'd encourage you to look towards more science-level publications as well, esp. Nature and Science.

kemyd 8y ago
Thank you. We will take your advice!

jelliclesfarm 8y ago

Very clean design. Thanks.

asdfzalsd 8y ago

I really like the design. I do a lot of backend dev so I gotta ask, what goes into designing a aesthetically pleasing site like that?

kemyd 8y ago
I created Bullets.tech using my tool https://bootstrapshuffle.com https://bootstrapshuffle.com It's of course based on Bootstrap. I like to use an online builder to experiment with fonts/colors. I found fonts here: https://fontpair.co/ https://fontpair.co/ Probably, I changed only the primary color from the default Bootstrap palette. I used one from this palette: https://flatuicolors.com/palette/ca https://flatuicolors.com/palette/ca I'm mostly backend developer like you. I experiment a lot to find something looking good!
- type0 8y ago
  As aitchnyu allready noticed you might need to think about what fonts you use and where. Josephin Sans could work fine for aside headers but you shouldn't use it all throughout the site if you care about readability.

kkarakk 8y ago

Would it be possible to add a feature to generate a high rez image(with your watermark) for sharing on social networks apart from twitter/facebook etc? i'm thinking of the ability to share to whatsapp

rkwasny 8y ago

Thanks for the RSS feed!

victormustar 8y ago

Great idea, perhaps you could add a link to HN comments if the article is posted on HN :)

aitchnyu 8y ago

Disabling the Josephin Sans font makes it much more readable in Firefox on my FHD Dell laptop. The letters are too short and thick. I really wish designers use conservative values of font family, weight and size.

kemyd 8y ago
Top priority for me! Thank you for poiting this out
- MockObject 8y ago
  Second. This site will be a welcome addition to my morning read, but that rather unique font is taxing to my eyes.

ccvannorman 8y ago

Oh my science, this is AMAZING. I can't believe how I lived before, toiling through pages of PDFs to find the actual point of papers. Thank you!

alexgotoi 8y ago

Hi Dawid, really useful resource! I would like to try a similar site for another industry/field. Can you tell me how you built the site/what theme you used?

kemyd 8y ago
Hi, sorry for the late reply. As I said in comments earlier, I created the theme by myself using https://bootstrapshuffle.com https://bootstrapshuffle.com

gatherhunterer 8y ago

I have been looking at this all day trying to decide how I feel about it. At the very least it is temptingly informative, which I think makes it a success. I appreciate that the summaries are manual and if bias concerns you (it should and apparently does) then just acknowledging a potential bias would be taking an appropriate nod from the scientific community.