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Shameless plug but I made a similar tool called asXiv[1] which allows you to "ask" arXiv.org papers questions. It also recommends questions on initial load tha
by anonfunction 1y ago
Shameless plug but I made a similar tool called asXiv[1] which allows you to "ask" arXiv.org papers questions.
It also recommends questions on initial load that can help understand or explore the paper, here's a demo[2] from the popular Attention Is All You Need paper.
The code is all opensource[3], it uses the google 2.5 flash lite model to keep costs down (it's completely free atm), but that can be changed via env var if you run it locally.
1. https://asxiv.org https://asxiv.org
2. https://asxiv.org/pdf/1706.03762 https://asxiv.org/pdf/1706.03762
3. https://github.com/montanaflynn/asxiv https://github.com/montanaflynn/asxiv
- sieep 1y agoSeems legit, I'll have to try later. Just curious, why didn't you make this a commercial SaaS?
- dingnuts 1y agomaybe because every LLM provider has an "attach file" feature so you can attach a paper and then ask questions about it? what's the value add of the wrapper that this person wrote at all?
- ohyoutravel 1y agoRight. I do this all the time with Gemini. Add a pdf or a link and ask it whatever I want. It will even turn it into a podcast with two people discussing the entire paper that I can listen to on the tram to work.
- anonfunction 1y agoI built it because it was tiresome to save the pdf, open a new window, add it and give a prompt. Simply replacing the domain arxiv.org with asxiv.org does all that for me now. Also it links to pages in it's answers and scrolls the pdf to it on click, allowing to view the pdf side by side with the chat.
- rshanreddy 1y agowhoa this is fantastic. wish I had known about this earlier! just made a similar product for reading arXiv / epub / pdfs called Ruminate (www.tryruminate.com), would love to hear what you think
- dang 1y agoThat looks interesting! I put your Show HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45212535 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45212535) in the second-chance pool (https://news.ycombinator.com/pool https://news.ycombinator.com/pool, explained at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308), so it will get a random placement on HN's front page.
- meander_water 1y agoThis looks great. Just fyi this is also possible via alphaxiv's assistant. Navigate to a paper, click tools -> assistant. [0] https://www.alphaxiv.org/abs/1706.03762 https://www.alphaxiv.org/abs/1706.03762
- 3abiton 1y agoHow is that different than generic RAG though? Genuinely curious