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I wonder, it shouldn't be too hard to make a bot that automatically links to all previous discussions on each topic that's submitted...
by staunton 4y ago
I wonder, it shouldn't be too hard to make a bot that automatically links to all previous discussions on each topic that's submitted...
- r3trohack3r 4y agoBuild it and Show HN
- dang 4y agoIt's not clear how to decide which threads to bundle together. Checking identical URLs is too narrow (e.g. the three threads mentioned have different URLs) and how to match by content isn't so easy.
- _hl_ 4y agoWith modern NLP models being extremely good, can't you bundle together all sites whose content embeddings are very close? Presumably there's an acceptable threshold somewhere that achieves a good tradeoff of false positives vs negatives?
- dang 4y agoIt's possible. I haven't had time to look into it. If someone wanted to do a proof of concept it would certainly be interesting.