HackerNews News Recommender
Productivity
news recommendation browser extension
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HackerNews News Recommender
Okiedoke, here's the source: https://github.com/normano/ycChrome
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How HN took it
1 positive, 8 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 4 critical, out of 13 comments about the project. Thread score -0.17.
Execution: 0 for, 4 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
Idea is interesting and the maker's approach is useful
From 1 comment
Sweet, this is awesome. I'll give you some feedback in a week or two after I give it a spin!
deepkut on HN
Objections
Recommendations did not appear for several users
From 3 comments
Doesn't seem to be doing anything for me. Installed it, clicked on a ton of links from hacker news, clicked on "more" a few times, and don't see anything recommended. The…
meraku on HNSame here. Even after resetting the data, and clicking more again, nothing.
phreeza on HNDoesn't seem to be working for me unfortunately, doesn't show any highlighted links. I think I've trained it properly.
timtamboy63 on HN
Training requires clicking the more link, which users do not do normally
From 1 comment
Do I have to do it every time I need to train it? I never click "more" in regular usage, I read one page and close it.
StavrosK on HN
Trained state does not persist between visits
From 1 comment
Does the data not persist between visits? I used this yesterday and it highlighted some posts, but today I got on HN and nothing is getting highlighted.
james33 on HN
Requests
Open source the code
From 1 comment
Will you open source it?
raptrex on HN
Train on link opens or use a link's content rather than only its title
From 2 comments
Without seeing the source it's hard to ask relevant technical questions, but why not train every time a link is opened?
polyfractal on HNYou might want to take a look at my implementation. I use the content of the linked sites via viewtext.org. This is probably more reliable.
rogerbraun on HN
Allow telling the classifier when a suggestion is wrong
From 1 comment
Click the "more" link how often? Is there a way to tell it that I don't agree with one of its suggestions?
lachyg on HN
Questions
Does it count opened links or only upvoted links as liked?
From 1 comment
Will look into it in detail shortly, but would it make more sense to treat the links I upvote as the ones I "liked" rather than the ones I open? Or, is this how it already works?
karterk on HN
Is it working and how to know it is trained?
From 1 comment
How do I know if it's working? I've activated it, clicked a ton of links that interest me and I'm not seeing anything.
lachyg on HN
Alternatives named
Another HN recommender written in Ruby posted days earlier
From 2 comments
Wasn't there another one of these that worked the same exact way posted a few days ago? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3616763
apgwoz on HNDAYS ago, I remember the other hacker showed his program about HN recommendation written in Ruby.
Alind on HN