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Ask HN: Should HN officially experiment with improving its ranking algorithms?
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by manx 4y ago
Great to hear! We're still looking for strategies to cheaply retain more data. If you have any ideas, please jump in: https://github.com/social-protocols/news/issues/54
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Ask HN: Should HN officially experiment with improving its ranking algorithms?
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by manx 4y ago
There you go: https://news.social-protocols.org/best-upvoterate
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by manx 4y ago
Some feed readers like feedly have a fifo mode, where you, for example, can go through all the stories which appeared on hacker news best.
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by manx 4y ago
That's a great idea! Similar to the hacker news /best page, where stories of the past 7 days are sorted by their upvote count, we could provide a page where those stories are sorted by their upvoteRate. Should be easy to do.
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by manx 4y ago
I think so. The first page gets much more upvotes than the second page. There is a visible step in the data: https://github.com/social-protocols/news#upvote-share-by-ran... Once a story drops to the second page, it rec
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by manx 4y ago
Thank you! We built a lightweight page on purpose (server-side rendered go templates), to never involve a big hosting cost. In fact, right now, it's hosted on a fly.io free tier. But it's open source and anybody could host it, if
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by manx 4y ago
I think this boils down to: - Users upvote, because they want that story to get MORE attention, BECAUSE they agree - Users downvote, because they want that story to get LESS attention, BECAUSE they disagree So the intent is still attention
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by manx 4y ago
Just looked up your profile. There's some super interesting stuff you worked on. We'll get in touch!
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by manx 4y ago
We just reset the history yesterday and plan to keep data for about one month for now. In the future, it should definitely be possible to retain a much longer time span.
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Show HN: Quality News – Towards a fairer ranking algorithm for Hacker News(news.social-protocols.org)
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Show HN: Quality News – Towards a fairer ranking algorithm for Hacker News(news.social-protocols.org)
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by manx 4y ago
This is advanced stuff. Thank you for writing it down.
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by manx 4y ago
I guess, the vc stands for version control here...
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by manx 4y ago
What is this device you're talking about?
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Ask HN: Do you use my web annotation tools and what do you annotate?
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If It’s Worth Doing, It’s Worth Doing with Made-Up Statistics (2017)(lesswrong.com)
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Dollar Street – photos as data to kill country stereotypes(gapminder.org)
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Gapminder(gapminder.org)
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by manx 4y ago
There can be different target audiences: Prompt: Pretend to be a person with IQ of 200. You are explaining to a person with IQ of 200. Why does it rain? ChatGPT: Rain occurs as a result of the earth's atmosphere and the process of evap
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by manx 4y ago
Yes, please. Feel free to contact me anytime in the future.
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by manx 4y ago
What you're talking about is often called "collective intelligence" - enabling a larger group of people to collaborate and form a more intelligent unit than any single human could be. I believe that's one of the few real
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by manx 4y ago
ChatGPT: Remove marketing speak from the following text: Bullshit.js is a best-of-breed, mission-critical enterprise JavaScript bookmarklet that will empower you to evaluate the high impact of market-driven text on any Web resource, cultiva
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by manx 4y ago
I thought the same! It would be nice if it could strip out the bullshit and shortening the text, while keeping it readable.
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by manx 4y ago
What is EventEmitter?
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by manx 4y ago
What are the quirks?
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Ask HN: What is your favorite front end state management solution?
107 points by manx 4y ago|162 comments
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by manx 4y ago
That's actually the definition of the median.
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by manx 4y ago
Many terminals have a different mode, where you can navigate and copy everything displayed in the terminal. Alacritty can do this, for example.

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