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Papers being voted high on Hacker News are usually uncorrelated with their actual importance. It's basically a lottery. There are regularly more interesting pap
by cubefox 5mo ago
Papers being voted high on Hacker News are usually uncorrelated with their actual importance. It's basically a lottery. There are regularly more interesting papers going semi viral on Twitter.
- MeteorMarc 5mo agoOn huggingface it was #3 paper of the day, which is neutral towards your hypothesis.
- cubefox 5mo agoConsidering that there is a paper with this many points perhaps once a week here (probably less), #3 of the day is pretty unremarkable.
- kingkawn 5mo agoWhat about broad unsupportable generalizations on hackernews, how do those rank?