[anonfunction]

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

2. https://asxiv.org/pdf/1706.03762

3. https://github.com/montanaflynn/asxiv

[dang]

That looks interesting! I put your Show HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45212535) in the second-chance pool (https://news.ycombinator.com/pool, explained at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308), so it will get a random placement on HN's front page.

[meander_water]

This 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

[sieep]

Seems legit, I'll have to try later. Just curious, why didn't you make this a commercial SaaS?

[dingnuts]

maybe 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?

[rshanreddy]

whoa 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

[3abiton]

How is that different than generic RAG though? Genuinely curious