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Re:Show HN: Top books mentioned in comments on Hacker News by kol on Friday August 26, 2016 @08:50AM (#12365801)
Great idea! It'd also be great if someone created hackernewspapers.com too. There are so many great papers mentioned on HN. Since most links point to pdf files, it'd be possible to collect the pdfs on the same site (if there's no copyright violation).
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Re:Show HN: Top books mentioned in comments on Hacker News by leandot on Friday August 26, 2016 @08:53AM (#12365822)
That can be done, question is how to recognize id a pdf is a paper or not. A bit trickier than books imho.
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Re:Show HN: Top books mentioned in comments on Hacker News by Retr0spectrum on Friday August 26, 2016 @09:07AM (#12365903)
That sounds like a fun application of a neural network. Finding large repositories of "real" papers to train it with should be fairly easy, too.

That said, I have zero experience working with neural networks, so it might not be very easy at all.

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Re:Show HN: Top books mentioned in comments on Hacker News by icen on Friday August 26, 2016 @09:02AM (#12365872)
You'd get pretty far just by whitelisting arxiv, .edu, .ac.uk, etc.
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