I personally am a fan of using lobste.rs and filtering for pdf only [0], it's not *just* research papers but that is the lion's share of it. Plus they've already got a community so (to the people complaining about lack of discussion there) maybe check it out.
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#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
HN has a search bar at the bottom of the page
woah I stand corrected, my apologies
Personally I didn’t find your tone really warrants an apology, and anyway the search feature is pretty unobtrusive :)
Also for what it’s worth I kind of disagree with the top level poster, search can come later after there’s enough discussion to actually index.
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#63There is horizontal scroll on mobile
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#64Is this meant for only CS/ML research?
It’s a great idea either way! I look forward to keeping up with it.
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#65Any plans to add RSS?
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#66I know someone else has said there's not too much whitespace, but I disagree. Comparing HN to this, I'm seeing 9 links per page compared to 26 for HN. Even Reddit fits 10 per page, and that's with thumbnails. It goes up to 18 with compact view. It needs much more content. Love the concept, but the UI leaves a lot to be desired in my eyes.
that huge amount of whitespace is a dealbreaker for me too. needs to be more compact at least as an option for me to use it.
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#67This is really nice - the simplicity of the interface and ability to read papers without sacrificing the readability of math equations is awesome. Congrats on publishing it. Do you mind sharing how you convert from pdf to html (if at all)? I'm building a tool for reading, curating, and visualizing personal knowledge [1]. Apps like yours and others mentioned in this thread are nice ways to discover papers and address blind spots during literature reviews.
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#69The problem is, there are way too much papers, even if you focus already to some domain, like deep learning. But this seems to be completely open to any topic? For machine learning, https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/ is currently a good place, or Twitter and following some of the authors you are interested in, or just set some Google Scholar alerts.
Is that a problem though? HN covers a very broad spectrum yet it still functions. Keeping it broad by allowing any topic but raising the bar to require a peer reviewed paper might even decrease the velocity of conversation, allowing better quality conversation. That is, if the lower velocity can allow a community to form still
It works on HN for at least the reason that HN post titles are often relatable. The same can't be said about paper titles even if you're in the field.
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#70What you'll discover is that the moment this falls off the HN front page, your traffic goes to zero. You'll need to manually recruit users, every day, typically by going to wherever they are. Twitter is your friend here. DM everyone you can, and keep checking in with them to see if they're getting value out of it. My personal experience was that I showed up, was delighted to see so many relevant papers, but then lost…
A bit crass these days, but this is probably where Reddit-style fake accounts will probably shine. Maybe a mix of manual work + judiciously crafted chatGPT prompts?