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Re:Show HN: I made Hacker News but for research papers by afandian on Monday February 13, 2023 @04:41PM (#34781061)
I know these are all arxiv.org so far, but if you want to include research papers beyond that plaform, can I encourage you to use DOIs for links? It'll make links citable, persistent and easy to cross-reference with other systems. I'm happy to give advice.

(I work at Crossref.org)

Re:Show HN: I made Hacker News but for research papers by pablomendes on Monday February 13, 2023 @06:50PM (#34782757)
Hey @afandian, can I interview you about the tech stack you all used to build search at Crossref.org?
Re:Show HN: I made Hacker News but for research papers by afandian on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @06:58AM (#34788153)
Always happy to share more details about how we build open scholarly infrastructure! Can do here, or reply with contact details.
Re:Show HN: I made Hacker News but for research papers by sitkack on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @09:05AM (#34789405)
I came here as well to recommend the DOI. So many nice things can be had by using this rather than your own IDs, it means that site now becomes a tool that composes with other tools.
Re:Show HN: I made Hacker News but for research papers by afandian on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @10:53AM (#34791115)
I'm always interested in hearing about less-than-mainstream uses of DOIs.
Re:Show HN: I made Hacker News but for research papers by sitkack on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @11:26AM (#34806057)
The DOI is a natural foreign key, look at semantic scholar and the integrations that arxiv is doing in the bottom 1/3. You are generating your own IDs, so you won't compose with the rest of the ecosystem.

Your keys mean nothing and given a handle to a paper, they can't reference your site.