Interactive research papers (a big step up from ArXiv HTML)
Details
- External ID
- 45991035
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Interactive research papers (a big step up from ArXiv HTML)
- Website domain
- sciencestack.ai
- Launched
- Nov. 20, 2025
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 9
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.4868995633187773
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
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
Enrichment
- Theme
- document processing and generation tools
- Vertical
- Education
- Function
- Content generation
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- interactive research paper viewer
- Manually corrected
- False
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
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Attention rank: #36 of 61 (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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