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250points
21comments
#137of 2,195 in 2019
Top 7%of 2019 by points

How HN took it

CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments

1 positive, 9 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 1 critical, out of 11 comments about the project. Thread score -0.04.

Idea: 1 for, 1 against

The thread, comment by comment

Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.

positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker

What HN said

What people liked

  • Useful listing of popular PDFs and papers

    From 2 comments
    • We did one for Polar at the end of 2018: https://getpolarized.io/2019/01/08/top-pdfs-of-2018-hackernews.html If you want an awesome PDF reader to read these you should check out…
      burtonator on HN
    • Related: https://fermatslibrary.com/
      epicwhaleburger on HN

Objections

  • Ranking on Hacker News is noisy and misses good posts

    From 1 comment
    • One of the huge issue on HN is lack of good algorithms for ranking. Currently all posts suffer from insufficient initial exposure to receive enough votes and thus false negatives…
      sytelus on HN

Requests

  • Link each entry to its HN discussion

    From 1 comment
    • Could you add links to the relevant threads on HN to this listing e.g. by linking the HN score there? This would give access to both the PDF for those who just want to read the…
      Yetanfou on HN
  • Add a search box

    From 1 comment
    • It will be convenient if there's a search box on the page
      itdog on HN
  • Tag entries into categories

    From 1 comment
    • It would be great if these could be tagged into a few categories.
      karmakaze on HN

Alternatives named

  • Polar top PDFs of 2018 list

    From 1 comment
    • We did one for Polar at the end of 2018: https://getpolarized.io/2019/01/08/top-pdfs-of-2018-hackernews.html If you want an awesome PDF reader to read these you should check out…
      burtonator on HN
  • Fermat's Library

    From 1 comment
  • hntrending arxiv list

    From 1 comment
    • I put together something similar but for articles people are linking to on Arxiv here: https://hntrending.com/links/all/arxiv/index.html
      danielecook on HN

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