[rdlecler1]

We wanted free news and look where that got us. Hopefully the open source research model also doesn’t go in that direction eventually.

[ethelward]

The whole difference is that free news implies that you need new models to remunerate the writers.

Here, the writers are already remunerated _before_ publishing their papers. What we need is a new way to quickly assess a scientist's worth.

[rdlecler1]

There is value in curation but this doesn’t seem to be playing well with the HN crowd.