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Show HN: Tech stories with lots of conversation in past 24 hours
- falicon 12y agoAt the moment the site mostly just monitors HN and reddit for new (tech related) posts that are getting a lot of comments in the past 24 hours...but if people find it useful, I may expand to monitor more sources (and offer a daily email digest)
- usr 12y agoThank you, I like it. Are you going to have an archives/history section so we can look back at the popular stories for a particular day?
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- falicon 12y agoTo move through archives just add the date to the overall url...example for Aug 21st -> http://knowabout.it/08-21-2014 http://knowabout.it/08-21-2014
- oldmanjay 12y agoIf you could somehow identify the posts that have significant flamewars or pun subthreads, I would find this the single most indispensable tool in the history of the internet.
- falicon 12y agoThat is a great suggestion...I think I can probably do at least some basic parsing to determine how many different people are commenting (vs. total comment count)...and I can probably do some basic keyword filtering counts too (checking for common flame/spam words and scoring on that)...worth playing with for sure! Thanks!
- petercooper 12y agoIt reminds me of Techmeme in a way. If you could group together stories that are alike (e.g. all of the Apple September 9th ones) and link to each discussion, it would be rather interesting (compared to Techmeme which focuses on all the authoritative sources discussing something, not communities like HN or Reddit).
- flardinois 12y agoI've been playing around with a somewhat similar project at http://news.siliconfilter.com/ http://news.siliconfilter.com/ for the last few weeks. My biggest challenge was the grouping that I need to do in the background so I don't show multiple versions of the same story from different sites. I'm mostly using some basic text and link analysis for that. I think Techmeme does some of that by hand.
- falicon 12y agolove it - will def. work on better grouping. Thanks!
- mikejarema 12y agoThis is reminiscent of what Engage.io was trying to do with its popular conversations feature before it shut down. I like the fact it focuses on tech conversations rather than conversations in general, there's so much more value to me in pre-filtering the content to a vertical I'm interested rather than trying to be everything for everyone. Great job, it's immediately engaging.
- johansch 12y agoMake the source/topic more visually prominent. Many of these headlines don't make any sense without context.
- falicon 12y agoGood point - I'll work on getting better context into each link. Thanks!
- squeaky-clean 12y agoOh man, another place for me to waste time. This seems very cool, I'd love to see more sources added to it. I agree that the source and topic should be made more easily discernible. Once you add more sources, I could see it getting confusing. A daily email digest would be a good idea for many users. I like to get involved in a discussion, though, but the digest would have to be sent after the discussions are over. Maybe a section for "rising" discussions if that's possible with how you've designed this? I'll definitely try to use this next week as my time-waster.
- falicon 12y agoawesome ideas - will work on implementing. Thanks!
- marban 12y agoHere's another test site for something similar: http://www.informio.com http://www.informio.com [Won't launch the project with tech though when finished]
- claar 12y agoNice! I could see myself using something like this. Personally, I'd tweak the rankings a bit -- right now, all of the reddit posts are above the more-interesting HN articles. For me, an article with 100 points and 40 comments on HN is likely a more interesting story than a post in /r/Android with 200 comments. Perhaps the ranking algorithm could be comments per audience-size?
- stinos 12y agoPerhaps the ranking algorithm could be comments per audience-size? the true next step would be a way to personalize rankings, even something simple as being able to filter out some topics
- falicon 12y agoGreat suggestion...I'll think about the best way to implement this (without driving up the costs/processing too much). Thanks!
- hokkos 12y agoIt's all about android because it seemed ordered by the number of comments, you should average it by theme.
- falicon 12y agoGood point - my orig. motivation was just to get a quick list of stuff I'm too busy to catch (because I'm off coding during the day)...so I cared more about things making the list than I did about the actual position on the list...but better grouping (like others mentioned) and better scoring (also mentioned by a few) is probably worth some time/focus...so I'm adding it to the list. Thanks!
- ChuckMcM 12y agoNice, its about time someone re-invented the old Technorati concept. Doing sentiment analysis on news trends seems like such a useful idea, I'm really surprised there are more sites like this.
- austinhutch 12y agoAwesome! I was thinking of curating popular HN posts in a similar way, but with a little less frequency (higher threshold before it gets pushed to a feed or whatever). Very cool.
- cheriot 12y agoIt's a nicely done site. It may just be my interest has diverged from generic tech news, but this looks like internet scale bikeshedding. It's not the biggest impact developments, or the biggest breakthroughs, it's the boring stuff that's relatable to a large number of people so it gets a lot of low quality comments.
- falicon 12y agoThanks - very valid points...but the idea of the service is to make sure I can quickly/easily know about the things people are recently talking about (regardless of quality). The quality journalism that alerts us to the big breakthroughs and interesting stuff requires a more serious investment in resources I think ;-)
- known 12y agoBrilliant. But need to make UI more pleasing.
- falicon 12y agoI just released an update to the UI...would love to know if it's more pleasing for you. Thanks!
- dtlyst 12y agoi am working on similar project, check : http://tekh.me http://tekh.me