Show HN: Interactive research papers (a big step up from ArXiv HTML)

4•cjlooi•1h ago

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” anywhere

Featured paper: Video models are zero-shot learners and reasoners (Veo 3) https://www.sciencestack.ai/arxiv/2509.20328v2

Comments

abracos•1h ago

Cool project, the space is very crowded: https://x.com/JeffDean/status/1991053401061536027 and http://semanticscholar.org/ come to mind

cjlooi•40m ago

Yea there were several attempts (including ar5iv), and distill.pub is no longer active + Semantic Scholar is PDF-based. None quite made the full use of HTML or have a robust conversion system. Jeff Dean's post is awesome - though using Gemini 3 is compute intensive and may still hallucinate in the end (I'm using a source-based latex to json parser). And the output is still...not very interactive.

billconan•44m ago

I have a question, can it convert any pdf paper to this format? or I need the latex of that paper?

cjlooi•37m ago

Works with any latex source

https://www.sciencestack.ai/docs/faq

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