Interactive research papers (a big step up from ArXiv HTML)
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I’ve been frustrated with PDFs and found arXiv HTML lacking, so I built a fully interactive paper reader.Features: • Hover references, citations, equations • Light/dark mode • Auto-generated dependency graphs for definitions/lemmas/theorems • Table of contents that syncs with scroll • Highlighting + annotations • “Copy raw LaTeX” anywhereFeatured paper: Video models are zero-shot learners and reasoners (Veo 3) https://www.sciencestack.ai/arxiv/2509.20328v2
HN · launched Nov 20, 2025 · 9 upvotes (top 51%) · 0 views
Niche: academic writing and research tools · 139 launches, 4 in the last 7 days ▼ -50% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Content generation
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes Parsing LaTeX or arXiv source HTML to generate an interactive web reader with tooltips, synced scroll, and graph visualizations (e.g., Cytoscape or D3) is a standard frontend and text-parsing task.
Discussion
8 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: ar5iv, distill.pub, Semantic Scholar, arXiv HTML pages
Concerns raised: Initial data load performance issues with large papers, Dependency graph only works on theorems/lemmas/definitions, not all content types, Crowded market with existing solutions, Compute-intensive processing with potential hallucination using LLMs
Feature requests: Dependency graph support for example papers, PDF conversion support (currently requires LaTeX source), Streaming data model instead of single JSON dump, Nomenclature/index support, More interactive output
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 165 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #91 of 166 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 21 days after the earliest competitor.
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- biomedical-paper-reader · github · 2026-09-26 · 30 upvotes · similarity 0.44
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