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Show HN: I mapped 8.5M research papers into an interactive atlas

https://tomesphere.com/atlas
1•leonickson•1h ago
Reading a paper means opening a PDF, then hunting separately for the code, the citations, whether it replicated, and what genes/drugs it touches. I spent a few months trying to fix that.

Two parts:

1. The map: I embedded 8.5M papers (arXiv, PubMed Central, bioRxiv, medRxiv), ran UMAP to lay them out in 2D, and render them with a WebGL scatterplot. Every dot is a paper — click it for an LLM TLDR, key findings, citations, peer reviews (where they exist), and similar work. Zoom in and the clusters are labeled by topic.

2. Rich paper pages + an MCP server: each paper is rebuilt with linked genes/proteins/diseases/drugs (normalized to real IDs via PubTator, not regex), clinical trials, 3D structures, code, and a citation graph. It's all exposed as an MCP server too, so you can point Claude or an agent at 8.5M papers instead of pasting PDFs.

Stack: Next.js, Postgres (Neon), Cloudflare R2 for content, embeddings + UMAP/HDBSCAN for the map, a WebGL renderer. The hard part was the ingestion pipeline — 45+ heterogeneous sources normalized into one schema — and keeping entity links accurate, since papers use names not accession IDs (so curated link tables + PubTator beat regex every time).

Free, no signup to explore. I'd love feedback on the map UX and whether the TLDRs/entity links hold up for papers you know well.

Known limits: Google indexing is still slow so title-search isn't great yet, some older arXiv figures are missing, and peer-review coverage is partial.

China Cuts 12,200 University Programs, Replaces Many with AI Degrees

https://www.forbes.com/sites/annaesakismith/2026/06/23/china-cuts-12200-university-programs-repla...
1•happy-go-lucky•2m ago•0 comments

Non-tech background, choosing between using CLaudeCode and CodeX

1•virtuallymundo•4m ago•0 comments

Texans deserve more then a Ken Paxton snake game

https://paxtonsnake.3d2k.com/
1•KilledByAPixel•5m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Figment – An AI that I made my friends talk to for 2 weeks

https://figment.computer/
1•subby•7m ago•0 comments

Burner Email, Temp email Box lasting 24 hours

https://burneremail24.com/
1•texasjosh•7m ago•0 comments

Llama 2 LLM on DOS (2025)

https://yeokhengmeng.com/2025/04/llama2-llm-on-dos/
1•userbinator•7m ago•0 comments

Rutazo – Argentina's freight marketplace, built solo in 4 months

https://www.rutazo.com
1•cookinat•7m ago•0 comments

Citicorp Center Engineering Crisis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citicorp_Center_engineering_crisis
1•thunderbong•9m ago•0 comments

What's slowing down the AI buildout

https://www.worksinprogress.news/p/ai-is-bottlenecked-by-the-grid
1•droidjj•13m ago•0 comments

Researchers uncover possible cause of muscle pain from cholesterol medication

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-07-uncover-muscle-pain-widely-cholesterol.html
2•brandonb•15m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Free and OSS way to extend client-facing functionality of Linear

https://linear.gratis/
1•gvlachos•18m ago•0 comments

AI could keep poor countries poor

https://newsletter.deenamousa.com/p/ai-could-keep-poor-countries-poor
2•zaik•18m ago•0 comments

Morph Chess

https://www.david-duval.com/morph-chess/
1•dvduval•20m ago•1 comments

Looksmaxxing influencer who fled police found dead

https://thetab.com/2026/07/08/looksmaxxing-influencer-who-fled-police-found-dead-after-swimming-n...
2•andsoitis•21m ago•0 comments

Character AI Alternative for Roleplay

https://chatbrat.ai/bratlog/best-character-ai-alternatives-2026
1•henrypissler•22m ago•0 comments

The library of lost journals 603 pages novel fiction book

https://play.google.com/store/books/details/The_Library_of_Lost_Journals_The_Archivist_s_Journ?id...
1•mjbachhav•25m ago•0 comments

DDB: Source-Level Interactive Debugging for Distributed Applications

https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.06107
1•Jimmc414•26m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: How to recover from thin content or de-indexing penalty on Google

2•anitroves•26m ago•2 comments

Meta Patents AI Device That Tracks Your Emotions, Watches You Take Your Meds

https://www.404media.co/meta-patents-ai-device-that-tracks-your-emotions-watches-you-take-your-meds/
3•Jimmc414•26m ago•0 comments

Counterfeit Air-Bags Are Killing U.S. Drivers–and the Government Can't Stop It

https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/counterfeit-air-bag-parts-deaths-regulators-6eddfdd4
1•fortran77•27m ago•1 comments

Ergo: Long Form Philosophy Lectures

https://ergo.org/
1•agnishom•30m ago•0 comments

Neuromancer (TV Series) – IMDB

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt31512174/
1•evo_9•35m ago•0 comments

Two teens learn the hard way not to do toy gun drive-bys from a Waymo

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/07/two-teens-learn-the-hard-way-not-to-do-toy-gun-drivebys-from...
1•gbourne1•43m ago•2 comments

FIFA president targeted by complaint to Olympic ethics body

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/fifas-infantino-targeted-by-complaint-to-olympic-ethics-body-a...
1•Jimmc414•45m ago•0 comments

Automattic Code for the People Is Rallying Cry for Open Internet

https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/automattic-code-for-the-people-1236802508/
1•pentagrama•46m ago•0 comments

A self-driving Waymo just reports its own passengers to police

https://www.fastcompany.com/91570761/a-self-driving-waymo-just-reported-its-own-passengers-to-police
1•PaulHoule•47m ago•1 comments

Grudge: Stochastic data structure for holding multi-tenant grudges

https://github.com/satmihir/grudge
1•jscrab•48m ago•0 comments

AI models' values are different from most people's

https://www.economist.com/briefing/2026/06/25/ai-models-values-are-very-different-from-most-peoples
1•Khaine•49m ago•0 comments

Widevine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widevine
1•gregsadetsky•50m ago•0 comments

Former Judge Hannah Dugan avoids prison, fined $5k in ICE obstruction case

https://wisconsinexaminer.com/2026/07/08/former-judge-hannah-dugan-avoids-prison-fined-5000-in-ic...
4•petethomas•51m ago•1 comments