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Re:AAAS: Machine learning 'causing science crisis' on Sunday February 17, 2019 @08:25AM (#19184327)
There is a new conference in cryptology that promotes exactly this: CFAIL.

From their 2019 website[0]: "Do you have insightful and exciting work sitting in a drawer somewhere because it never quite panned out? Are you willing to share your failed approaches so that others can learn from them without having to re-travel the same road? Are you tired of reading papers that pretend the incremental result they happened to achieve was well-motivated and was their goal all along?

We are! That’s why we are founding a new conference: a place for papers that describe instructive failures or not-yet-successes, as they may prefer to be called."

[0] https://www.cfail2019.com/

Re:Ask HN: What device do you use to read academic papers with? on Tuesday February 07, 2017 @08:22AM (#13589131)
I used to use K2pdfopt, http://willus.com/k2pdfopt/