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Re: Show HN: HackerNews but for research papers

#101

mobile is non-functional: https://ibb.co/FByhmNb rather than open pdf directly, it would be better to take me to the arXiv page, since i can do more there (like use semantic scholar to find related papers quickly) i like the potential

Interesting idea, will consider adding this, thanks for the feedback!

Re: Show HN: HackerNews but for research papers

#102
I think you really want the papers posted to be driven by the users. But I understand why you might want an automated approach to bootstrap the site so that there is something there. If you're part of a small research community, it might be worth asking people to post articles they find interesting, and start by constraining it to that community (relevant clip of a paul graham interview: https://youtu.be/rCkCA1EaoVo?si=R6l9UNDjU0yR-fcL , which I think still applies even if this isn't meant to be a "startup")

I wonder if this is a good format though for discussing papers? - There are often lots of little sections of a paper to discuss in detail, and I think it's hard to do that with a linear format of comments controlled by up and down votes

Re: Show HN: HackerNews but for research papers

#103

I think you really want the papers posted to be driven by the users. But I understand why you might want an automated approach to bootstrap the site so that there is something there. If you're part of a small research community, it might be worth asking people to post articles they find interesting, and start by constraining it to that community (relevant clip of a paul graham interview: https://youtu.be/rCkCA1EaoVo?…

'There are often lots of little sections of a paper to discuss in detail, and I think it's hard to do that with a linear format of comments controlled by up and down votes'

I had exactly the same thought. Trying to think of a better way to handle this. Doesn't help that PDFs are so difficult to parse correctly.

Re: Show HN: HackerNews but for research papers

#104
Hi, I created an account but could not login, for some reason. I'm on Brave and have some security settings on - maybe something related to that? Never had issues on other websites.

On another note, the mobile browser version could be better - the rows exceed the width of the screen.

But other than that, you've got something cool over here, I'll bookmark it :)

Re: Show HN: HackerNews but for research papers

#105

Hi, I created an account but could not login, for some reason. I'm on Brave and have some security settings on - maybe something related to that? Never had issues on other websites. On another note, the mobile browser version could be better - the rows exceed the width of the screen. But other than that, you've got something cool over here, I'll bookmark it :)

I'm using Supabase free-tier, think I need to upgrade to allow more sign ups. Mobile experience needs work, sorry about that. Thanks for the feedback, cheers!

Re: Show HN: HackerNews but for research papers

#106
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Looks quite similar, never heard of it but will take a look

Took a look. Emergent mind looks really polished, however it's tailored towards only AI it looks like.

Hey all, Matt here, Emergent Mind's founder.

Yes, Emergent Mind is 100% focused on AI/ML papers from arXiv. I think it makes more sense to focus on a niche because you can tailor everything to that niche, vs creating a general research paper site which won't wind up speaking to any audience well.

For anyone curious about Emergent Mind: it surfaces trending AI/ML papers by monitoring social media (HackerNews, Reddit, X, YouTube, and GitHub) for discussions about papers, then ranks them based on the amount of engagement they're getting (similar to how HackerNews uses upvotes). Then, for all trending papers, it automatically summarizes them using GPT-4o and links to relevant discussions so you can learn more.

We're working on a bunch of new capabilities that we'll announce soon too.

Feedback welcome: matt@emergentmind.com

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