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What Is Hacker News Working On?
I tagged all comments from "What Are You Working On?" (like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45561428)…
waywo.eamag.me#hacker news#show hn#project index#what are you working on#sveltekit
How HN took it
10 positive, 16 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 4 critical, out of 32 comments about the project. Thread score +0.20.
Idea: 4 for, 3 againstExecution: 1 for, 1 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 againstPerformance: 1 for, 0 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 search and browsing; clean and fast
From 4 comments
Really nice, and also the search is satisfying snappy!
benrutter on HNThank you for this. I did a search filter on my username and have a good memory trace back. I really need it!
vinhnx on HNReally well done. I'm sure it must have been a joy to use Sveltekit.
Sateeshm on HNVery cool - thanks! On mobile I’d prefer to be able to just keep scrolling instead of having to tap ‘next page’, scroll to the top, then scroll down again
catoc on HN
Objections
Tags are not very useful or are too generic
From 2 comments
Personally, I find little value in most of the tags. To me, many of them just say "Coders gonna code." It would be more interesting if you could tag the projects based on their…
codingdave on HNWhat is the system behind the distinction between “high-level” and “low-level” tags? For example, why is "artificial intelligence" high level, but "cloud computing" low level?…
Archelaos on HN
Includes replies, not only top-level comments; some recent posts missing
From 2 comments
Nice work, thanks for sharing! Here's my feedback.. 1. Please, consider to always include the latest What Are You Working On posts. For instance, this latest one posted 16 hours…
redbell on HNThis is cool, I don't see my comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45869146#45869388) indexed though
jabedude on HN
Irrelevant comments get picked up
From 1 comment
- List of available tags would be even cooler. - When you select some tags, list can overflow horizontally and first column with tags is only partially visible. Happened to me…
yetihehe on HN
Requests
Tag by problem and subject area rather than generic labels
From 1 comment
Personally, I find little value in most of the tags. To me, many of them just say "Coders gonna code." It would be more interesting if you could tag the projects based on their…
codingdave on HN
Pagination in URL, page size control, and no-pagination option
From 3 comments
This is great! 1. Does it include comments from ALL previous WAYWO posts? 2. Add navigation by page too. Currently I can press next, but it does not reflect in the URL, which…
smusamashah on HNIdeas: 1. Optionally allow all pages to be shown at once (no pagination). 2. Provide a "download all as JSON" button. 3. Allow the use of an LLM to filter through these comments.
amelius on HNVery cool - thanks! On mobile I’d prefer to be able to just keep scrolling instead of having to tap ‘next page’, scroll to the top, then scroll down again
catoc on HN
Download data as JSON and filter by WAYWO posts
From 2 comments
Ideas: 1. Optionally allow all pages to be shown at once (no pagination). 2. Provide a "download all as JSON" button. 3. Allow the use of an LLM to filter through these comments.
amelius on HNI'd like to be able to filter by What Are you Working On posts
nbbaier on HN
Questions
How were tags determined and what sorting is default
From 2 comments
How did you determine the tags?
pell on HNWhat's the default sorting algorithm? I just posted recently in the thread so would have expected to see my post somewhere on this site near the front page. Granted, I guess HN…
Benjamin_Dobell on HN
Does it include all previous WAYWO posts
From 1 comment
This is great! 1. Does it include comments from ALL previous WAYWO posts? 2. Add navigation by page too. Currently I can press next, but it does not reflect in the URL, which…
smusamashah on HN
Alternatives named
Nthesis HN working-on notebook
From 1 comment
As a kind of "AI first" take on this, I created a small Jupyter notebook that uses the Nthesis api which shapes, tags, etc. based on LLM instructions. It also has built in RAG…
osigurdson on HN
hacker-jobs.com for Who Is Hiring threads
From 1 comment
Nice idea! For quickly skimming the list, I think it would be useful to add a short, standardized summary for each project. These summaries should be easy to generate…
marcotm on HN