This is a very early proof of concept and any suggestions on how to make it better are welcome!
I basically used reddit's Bigquery data for the dataset (it's huge!). My algorithm and code is here[2].
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gudnFNBXc58
[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/learnmachinelearning/comments/6hqd6...
I find this kind of post-factum concerns funny as well (same with banning Mein Kampf etc today) -- it was 1933-1945 when the German people should have been really concerned about Hitler, not 2017. The new threats of today don't need Mein Kampf or the freedom to use "HH" initials -- they can make their own stuff even if they care for the Nazis, and usually they have their own, 2017 names and agendas to use anyway. So all it does it reduce some historical guilt.
If anything, you should be grateful to see other people use "HH" for things completely and utterly unrelated to extremists.
I know it was just a joke, but it really doesn't apply to this case.
The vector of an article can be obtained by summing the vectors of its words (minus stop words). For a topic you just sum up 5-10 of the topic keywords. You don't need to exhaustively list all the topic keywords because word2vec automatically maps them in close vicinity.
This system has the advantage that you don't need a training dataset. It's unsupervised learning coupled with a small amount of supervised topic pointers.
I have a question, does it also index submissions which never make it to the main show page?
Also, shameless plug : I am hosting an event inspired by ShowHn in Hyderabad, India ( showhyd.com )
I think it really boils down to making sure that people coming to your site find something new and creative all the time - to help turn lurkers or one-time visitors into repeat visitors. I think PH does that quite well with their podcasts, daily digests, twitter updates (though they are forced but they do work), etc. Also you're building a community site so if the traffic dies in a month keep at it, it looks sites like these take many years to gain that traction. Basically I think you have something really great going here, just make sure to focus on bringing the visitors back and you will definitely have a winner!
Wondered if maybe having the list for today, then perhaps some other recent options in a slimmer format either beside or below?
Nice work though!
A feature ive been missing on hackernews, that perhaps you'd be willing to add, is a community written tldr for each link.
I.e apart from title and link, a short (200chars or so) description anf tldr.
As HackerHunt says, /shownew is just a place that awesome new stuff is hidden.
Two bug reports:
1. Do you have a way to receive bug reports other than HN? :)
2. After doing a search, the left category menu disappears, and stays disappeared even after clicking the HH "home" link at top left. This is true for FF and Chromium latest-ish on LinuxMint.
There are two possible bugs here: a) do you actually want the left menu to disappear, and b) what your intent is for clicking the top left "HH".
- Go to HH.
- Search for something. Results appear as you type, nice. No indication from browser that a new page is loading; guessing no load by design. But left menu disappears.
- Manually erase search bar. Menu back.
- Type out a search again, menu disappears.
- Click "HH" at top left. Browser indicates a page is loading", but the search is not erased and (therefore?) the menu is still missing.
- Re-enter HH either by typing the URL into the browser location and clicking "make it so", or by clicking in from another site (like HN). Search field is empty, therefore the left menu is available.
EDIT: This was going to be a separate bug, but I think it's related to above.
Scrollbar behavior is buggy.
- Clear site cookies. ("It's the only way to be sure.")
- Don't click anything, just move the mouse around and scroll, with mousewheel or dragging scrollbar. Scrollbar intact, entire page scrolls.
- Click in search field, don't type anything. Scrollbar disappears, mousewheel scrolling has no effect, regardless of where the mouse hovers. Entire page jumps slightly to right, appearing to "chase" the disappeared scrollbar.
- Type something in search field that gets results. Scrollbar returns, top of scrollbar is even with bottom of search field, page does not jump back; I'm guessing this is "your" scrollbar rather than the browser's scrollbar. Mousewheel only has effect if mouse is hovered below the search field, in the area region where the scrollbar exists.
- Click on any non-active area outside the search field. Search field jumps left very slightly. Scrollbar is back to full length (browser's scrollbar?), but there are now two separate scrolling areas:
- Hover mouse at or above search field level. The entire original front page, including the missing menu and the default "Today" list of sites, scrolls up into the area from viewport top to bottom level of search field (which also scrolls up and away with the rest of the page). Search results do not scroll.
- Hover mouse below the search field, mousewheel scrolls the search results, phantom page at top of viewport does not scroll.
- Drag the scrollbar, the "top" scroll area scrolls.
