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Show HN: Tech stories with lots of conversation in past 24 hours

knowabout.it

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At the moment the site mostly just monitors HN and reddit for new (tech related) posts that are getting a lot of comments in the past 24 hours...but if people find it useful, I may expand to monitor more sources (and offer a daily email digest)

Thank you, I like it.

Are you going to have an archives/history section so we can look back at the popular stories for a particular day?

To move through archives just add the date to the overall url...example for Aug 21st -> http://knowabout.it/08-21-2014

What, no ISO 8601?!

How very US-centric.

http://enwp.org/ISO_8601

Sorry ;-)

If you could somehow identify the posts that have significant flamewars or pun subthreads, I would find this the single most indispensable tool in the history of the internet.

That is a great suggestion...I think I can probably do at least some basic parsing to determine how many different people are commenting (vs. total comment count)...and I can probably do some basic keyword filtering counts too (checking for common flame/spam words and scoring on that)...worth playing with for sure! Thanks!

Nice! I could see myself using something like this.

Personally, I'd tweak the rankings a bit -- right now, all of the reddit posts are above the more-interesting HN articles. For me, an article with 100 points and 40 comments on HN is likely a more interesting story than a post in /r/Android with 200 comments.

Perhaps the ranking algorithm could be comments per audience-size?

Perhaps the ranking algorithm could be comments per audience-size?

the true next step would be a way to personalize rankings, even something simple as being able to filter out some topics

Great suggestion...I'll think about the best way to implement this (without driving up the costs/processing too much). Thanks!

This is reminiscent of what Engage.io was trying to do with its popular conversations feature before it shut down. I like the fact it focuses on tech conversations rather than conversations in general, there's so much more value to me in pre-filtering the content to a vertical I'm interested rather than trying to be everything for everyone. Great job, it's immediately engaging.

It reminds me of Techmeme in a way. If you could group together stories that are alike (e.g. all of the Apple September 9th ones) and link to each discussion, it would be rather interesting (compared to Techmeme which focuses on all the authoritative sources discussing something, not communities like HN or Reddit).

I've been playing around with a somewhat similar project at http://news.siliconfilter.com/ for the last few weeks. My biggest challenge was the grouping that I need to do in the background so I don't show multiple versions of the same story from different sites. I'm mostly using some basic text and link analysis for that. I think Techmeme does some of that by hand.

love it - will def. work on better grouping. Thanks!

Oh man, another place for me to waste time. This seems very cool, I'd love to see more sources added to it. I agree that the source and topic should be made more easily discernible. Once you add more sources, I could see it getting confusing.

A daily email digest would be a good idea for many users. I like to get involved in a discussion, though, but the digest would have to be sent after the discussions are over. Maybe a section for "rising" discussions if that's possible with how you've designed this?

I'll definitely try to use this next week as my time-waster.

awesome ideas - will work on implementing. Thanks!

It's a nicely done site. It may just be my interest has diverged from generic tech news, but this looks like internet scale bikeshedding. It's not the biggest impact developments, or the biggest breakthroughs, it's the boring stuff that's relatable to a large number of people so it gets a lot of low quality comments.

Thanks - very valid points...but the idea of the service is to make sure I can quickly/easily know about the things people are recently talking about (regardless of quality). The quality journalism that alerts us to the big breakthroughs and interesting stuff requires a more serious investment in resources I think ;-)

Make the source/topic more visually prominent. Many of these headlines don't make any sense without context.

Good point - I'll work on getting better context into each link. Thanks!

Here's another test site for something similar: http://www.informio.com

[Won't launch the project with tech though when finished]

Nice, its about time someone re-invented the old Technorati concept. Doing sentiment analysis on news trends seems like such a useful idea, I'm really surprised there are more sites like this.

Awesome! I was thinking of curating popular HN posts in a similar way, but with a little less frequency (higher threshold before it gets pushed to a feed or whatever). Very cool.

It's all about android because it seemed ordered by the number of comments, you should average it by theme.

Good point - my orig. motivation was just to get a quick list of stuff I'm too busy to catch (because I'm off coding during the day)...so I cared more about things making the list than I did about the actual position on the list...but better grouping (like others mentioned) and better scoring (also mentioned by a few) is probably worth some time/focus...so I'm adding it to the list. Thanks!

Brilliant. But need to make UI more pleasing.

I just released an update to the UI...would love to know if it's more pleasing for you. Thanks!

i am working on similar project, check : http://tekh.me

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