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How HN took it
4 positive, 6 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 3 critical, out of 14 comments about the project. Thread score +0.07.
Idea: 1 for, 2 againstExecution: 1 for, 1 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful for jumping between arXiv, GitHub and peer reviews.
From 1 comment
Jumping between arXiv, GitHub, and peer reviews is such a real pain. The “copy page as markdown for your LLM” feature is especially useful.Curious how accurate the entity linking…
Jahnavi_Aleti on HN
Fun way to explore a corpus.
From 1 comment
I love them! It's a really nice, fun way to explore a corpus. Cosmograph for this sort of thing is great, it supports graphs as well as 2D projections, and is blazing fast. That…
specproc on HN
Objections
Map visualizations may have little use beyond looking cool.
From 2 comments
I remember similar kind of visualization from a decade ago, called paperscape. Looked cool, worked on clustering using citations and references. Never got any idea on any use…
murkt on HNI love them! It's a really nice, fun way to explore a corpus. Cosmograph for this sort of thing is great, it supports graphs as well as 2D projections, and is blazing fast. That…
specproc on HN
Title search and search-to-map filtering don't work well yet.
From 2 comments
this is fun! even for casual users. I searched "James Webb" and got 'James Webb Space Telescope: data, problems, and resolution A. D. Dolgov · 2023 · 1 cites' as my first result,…
goodwillhunting on HNNeat! Two questions I had after using it: 1) Is there a way to filter the visual atlas by the search term? For instance, I searched "ribosome" and it gave me a list, but I…
gavinray on HN
Requests
Firefox extension support.
From 1 comment
I see there is a Chrome extension, but I have not used Chrome since their adblocker blocker announcement. Is a Firefox extension planned? Also, what is the business model? Is…
GymInMeCricket on HN
Filter the map by search term.
From 1 comment
Neat! Two questions I had after using it: 1) Is there a way to filter the visual atlas by the search term? For instance, I searched "ribosome" and it gave me a list, but I…
gavinray on HN
Show relationships between nearby papers.
From 1 comment
I really like the clustering aspect of this. It would be cool if there was a way to articulate some sort of relationship between two adjacent or nearby papers in this tool.
rahulb0802 on HN
Questions
How accurate is entity linking for genes and diseases?
From 1 comment
Jumping between arXiv, GitHub, and peer reviews is such a real pain. The “copy page as markdown for your LLM” feature is especially useful.Curious how accurate the entity linking…
Jahnavi_Aleti on HN
Where are the papers sourced from?
From 1 comment
Just curious where do you source all those papers?
vignyBot on HN
Alternatives named
ResearchRabbit, Connected Papers, Litmaps
From 1 comment
ResearchRabbit is free and has this feature! https://www.researchrabbit.ai/ ConnectedPapers also has this but they started to limit unless you pay:…
gavinray on HN
Paperclip MCP
From 1 comment
Neat! Two questions I had after using it: 1) Is there a way to filter the visual atlas by the search term? For instance, I searched "ribosome" and it gave me a list, but I…
gavinray on HN
Paperscape
From 1 comment
I remember similar kind of visualization from a decade ago, called paperscape. Looked cool, worked on clustering using citations and references. Never got any idea on any use…
murkt on HN