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Academic Hacker News
- henning 18y agoIf you manage to solve the chicken-and-egg problem of building a community site, let us know.
- TweedHeads 18y agoMarketing, perseverance, and a few sprinkled fake posts to build a sense of community will suffice. There you have it, the golden rule of building communities.
- ambition 18y agoWell, it's up, we'll see where it goes. I don't actually know anything about building communities. Basically the plan is to keep an open mind and keep learning.
- thepanister 18y agoThis is very nice... but please change the green color of the bar to any other color, or change the color of the items in the menu... like make it white to appear! About marketing... don't forget to tell your friends and every student at your class about it and encourage them to join. EDIT: I also advice you to check out this post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=363 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=363 so you can know "what people want".. and the features that should be added. Try to be creative, and look at the link above, so you can get more ideas about enhancing it.
- ewiethoff 18y agoI agree that black text against dark green is difficult to read. This Firefox Stylish hack changes the top bar to a medium green, which works nicely for me: td[bgcolor="#2b5500"] { background-color: #6c6 !important }
- ambition 18y agoColor changed to be lighter. Thanks for the link. I plan to specialize the site features for papers as I get ideas.
- ewiethoff 18y agoThanks, but #49960a is still too dark for me to read black against. I'm sticking with my #6c6 hack for now.
- paulgb 18y agoNice. I'll try to get some of my friends to check it out as well. An about page would be nice, to know what kind of content will be accepted. CS Papers only? Or all academic papers? Or anything of interest to CS people?
- ambition 18y agoHere's the about page: http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~ad/academic-hacker-news.html http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~ad/academic-hacker-news.html You can see it by clicking on the (empty for now) favicon. I'll add a more obvious link.
- fgimenez 18y agoHalf of me wants this to be successful because it's such a great idea. The other half hopes it crashes and burns simply because I don't need another hacker news to eat away my time.
- ambition 18y agoI think it will be a slower site than HN because it takes longer to read full papers than articles.
- clay 18y agoThis is a really good idea. Maybe this will generate a lot of public discussion about some recent papers...
- emilam 18y agoThis is an excellent idea, and I love the comments so far. It's great to see how open the community is to the idea of others taking a great technology/idea and applying it in new ways. I hope ideas from Academic Hacker News will be able to flow back and influence the original hacker news.
- pmjordan 18y agoMakes me wonder what's wrong with posting them here - I'd welcome some "great tech papers" (as they put it) here.
- antiform 18y agoI don't think I've ever seen an actual technical paper on the front page of Hacker News. I remember trying to post some of my favorites when I first came to HN, but people rarely responded to or upvoted them. Also, it's a lot more work to read a technical paper than most forms of online writing, and I hope that this new one has a much slower pace than Hacker News. This is a good niche to try and fill. Thanks.
- thepanister 18y agoYou are right about papers. But someone has posted a paper from Stanford about Automatic Generation of High-Coverage Tests and I was so glad to see that.
- simianstyle 18y agoInvest in a favicon :-)
- TweedHeads 18y agoTurn the Y upside down, presto!
- Dilpil 18y agoI like it. Where can I find the chemistry, biology, neuroscience, psychology, economics, and physics versions?
- mixmax 18y agoIf you can't you can make them. http://arclanguage.org/ http://arclanguage.org/
- nsrivast 18y agoSince our interests overlap almost exactly (not a huge chemistry fan), I'd be interested in putting together a subject-specific suite of versions.
- anshulk 18y agoWould love such a site!
- rms 18y agohttp://newmogul.com http://newmogul.com for economics + general business
- hhm 18y agoThis is just fantastic, thank you!
- johnswamps 18y agoCan you add an rss feed?
- ambition 18y agoIt's built in to pg's source code. See http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~ad/news/rss http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~ad/news/rss I also added a link.
- wheels 18y agoLike the idea, but a few problems: - Sites that aren't super active yet for me must have RSS. RSS is my callback mechanism. There are probably only 10 sites that I visit on a routine basis, but I subscribe to 45 (mostly low volume) RSS feeds. Alternative for me these days is Twitter. - As others mentioned green color is bad. I can barely read the title. - "Academic" is too vague. Academic for what? Computer science? Any papers on anything? Professor's union meeting write-ups? Specials in the U. Toronto snack bar? Note: Current "Hacker News" ousted the previously more specific name, "Startup News". - Is this different from http://www.reddit.com/r/compsci/ http://www.reddit.com/r/compsci/ ?
- tlrobinson 18y agoA memorable domain name would be helpful too, even if it just redirects.
- ambition 18y agohnacademic.com should start redirecting as soon as DNS propagates.
- SapphireSun 18y agoThis is an incredible idea! I second the RSS feed!
- ambition 18y agoSee www.cs.toronto.edu/~ad/news/rss. I've also added a link at the bottom of the list pages.
- TweedHeads 18y agoGreen is not bad, black text on green is. For text use white, a very light yellow or a very very very light green and see the difference.
- ambition 18y ago
- workaround 18y agoI found a really cool domain that you might want to use. I couldn't reserve it for various reasons. I don't want to display it because otherwise a squatter might take it. If you want to know what it is, look on your own site for the username SapphireSun and check the email field. Email me and I'll tell you it. Posting with this username to get around the noprocrast feature ;-). Normally I wouldn't, but this might be a time sensitive issue now that you've broadcasted your existence to the world.
- workaround 18y agoNevermind, I see the contact information. Feel free to downmod this into oblivion.