[cs702]

> never make it to HN unless there's special circumstances

Yes, I agree. The two most common patterns I've noticed in research that does show up on HN are: 1) It outright improves, or has the potential to improve, applications currently used in production by many HN readers. In other words, it's not just navel-gazing. 2) The authors and/or their organizations are well-known, as you suggest.

[godelski]

What bothers me the most is that comments will float to the top of a link that's an arxiv paper or uni press where people will talk about how something is still in a prototype stage and not production yet/has a ways to go to production. While this is fine, that's also the context of works like these. But it is the same thing that I see in reviews. I've had works myself killed because reviewers treat the paper as a product rather than... you know... research.