Ask HN: Replace submission voting in HN by Google-style AI Challenges?

2 pointsby amichail16 anni fa6 comments

Instead of voting on submissions, why not have a weekly AI challenge whereby people making submissions would also submit code for the challenge? As the week progresses, you can improve your code, even for submissions already made.

The ranking of the front page of submissions would be based on the ranking of the associated programs for the AI challenge. Points gained by your AI program would be divided by the number of submissions associated with that program.

The AI challenge setup would be similar to the Google one: http://ai-contest.com/

What do you think?

3 comments

anigbrowl16 anni fa

I think it's too much work for a news site, but the idea of continuous/rolling mini-challenges has merit, both as a demonstration and education tool. This warrants further exploration.

rouli16 anni fa

maybe instead of a captcha (not that hacker news has a captcha, but bare with me), submitters would be required to answer a Project Euler like problem. Obviously I'm not serious, but it can be an interesting way to moderate the submissions.

wwortiz16 anni fa

I don't really understand what you want.

amichail16 anni fa

It means that the submissions that rank highly would be ones submitted by people who are really good at the AI challenge -- real hackers!

wwortiz16 anni fa

So hackers is now limited to AI programmers? I suspect a highly biased front page would then be an effect.

amichail16 anni fa

I think it would be fun and would attract a huge number of top hackers to the site.