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Comment by liuliu | Hacker News Reader

Sometimes I see failures of HN to collaboratively discover this kind of interesting topics. I've posted the paper much earlier than the media coverage (more than 100 days ago): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=810986 and there is no vote up.

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There are a lot of interesting papers out there but, from what I've seen, HN voters tend to appreciate actual products and services a lot more than theory (and certainly don't appreciate PDFs). There's undoubtedly room for a more compsci/theoretically HN equivalent - unless such a thing exists (Reddit/compsci?)

Nonetheless, that's a cool paper and it's a shame it didn't make the front page first time round :-)

There used to be Academic Hacker News ( http://hnacademic.com:40106/ ) but it mostly died from lack of activity. It's a shame.

Darn, that looks awesome. I suspect it died from the usual "launching a small online community" problems of hitting critical mass, etc. Maybe this - or something like it - could take off given the right amount of care by a group of dedicated folks..

I noticed that response to an article varies predictably over time. The best time to submit an article to HN seems to be weekday mornings PST.

Have an upvote :) Unfortunately, this happens all the time.

Also multiple:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1067111

A snazzy title apparently makes all the difference.

'You don't sell the steak, you sell the sizzle'

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