hntitlenator
AI
neural network demo
SHOW HN2019
How HN took it
9 positive, 102 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 50 critical, out of 162 comments about the project. Thread score -0.25.
Performance: 3 for, 43 againstIdea: 4 for, 4 againstExecution: 0 for, 3 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
Thorough technical critique and clear pipeline
From 1 comment
Congratulations on getting first rank on front page. Congratulations on getting your hands dirty and doing everything yourself like computing gradients manually, badly shuffling…
GistNoesis on HN
Fun to play with
From 2 comments
neural networks are fun the history of X scores: power: good 0.91 wealth: good 0.99 sex: good 0.99 squirrels: good 0.99 cables: bad 0.97 keys: good 0.99 why cables?
LoSboccacc on HNIt works: https://i.imgur.com/9Vtah2o.png
trombonechamp on HN
Objections
Predictions are essentially random or noisy
From 3 comments
How many Hacker News stories was this network trained on? From the code, it wasn't many, and you need a lot of stories. A year ago I made a Hacker News submission score…
minimaxir on HNMakes me wonder if there is ever any non-toy usage of AI sentiment analysis. People (managers, customers, marketing, etc) think is the hottest thing since sliced bread, but every…
thrower123 on HNI'd argue that titles, as long as they're neutral and accurate, have nothing to do with the upvotes you'll get. This is a perfect example of using data to try to find something…
lm28469 on HN
Trained on too little data and overfits
From 2 comments
Congratulations on getting first rank on front page. Congratulations on getting your hands dirty and doing everything yourself like computing gradients manually, badly shuffling…
GistNoesis on HNHmmm. I tried feeding https://rachelbythebay.com/fun/hrand/ to this. The results were... well, the input was very repetitive and the NN was only trained on 1.5k titles, so what…
exikyut on HN
Simple architecture and word-vector choices make it fragile to typos and word changes
From 2 comments
Congratulations on getting first rank on front page. Congratulations on getting your hands dirty and doing everything yourself like computing gradients manually, badly shuffling…
GistNoesis on HN"creating linux network socketss" -> Good 0.99 "creating linux network sockets" -> Good: 0.01
majke on HN
Requests
Train on more HN data
From 1 comment
Well, here's the thing: a good Samaritan offered 2.6M stories from HN with score. I've downloaded the file (almost 500M) and I'm now processing it. It is taking a long time to…
atum47 on HN
Show which keywords raise or lower the score
From 1 comment
Would have been nice if some keywords were likely to increase or lower the score prediction. For instance, popular things like "rust" would probably increase popularity. e.g:…
niyaven on HN
Validate against real submission scores
From 1 comment
It would be nice to include an analysis of how good is this with real data. Perhaps pick all the submission from yesterday and show the correlation between the real points and…
gus_massa on HN
Questions
How many stories was it trained on?
From 2 comments
How many Hacker News stories was this network trained on? From the code, it wasn't many, and you need a lot of stories. A year ago I made a Hacker News submission score…
minimaxir on HN> In order to check that, I got 1256 stories from HN API Only? If you want to make useful guesses on the time of a post, better take a much larger number, to ensure you get…
ekianjo on HN
Alternatives named
Intoli Hacker News title tool
From 1 comment
Very cool. I had the same idea a couple of years back and implemented a very similar interactive tool [1]. If you find the topic interesting, then you might also enjoy the…
foob on HN
Kaggle HN submission score predictor
From 1 comment
How many Hacker News stories was this network trained on? From the code, it wasn't many, and you need a lot of stories. A year ago I made a Hacker News submission score…
minimaxir on HN