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Show HN: TikTok but for Scientific Papers

https://andreaturchet.github.io/website/index.html
34•ciwrl•2h ago

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aplthrowaway67•1h ago
Show HN: Shit, but for dinner
giwook•58m ago
Too funny to be AI-generated. Well done.
AlexCoventry•39m ago
Yeah, I have an allergic reaction to tiktok being mixed up in any serious intellectual pursuit. :-)
giwook•58m ago
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ksd482•48m ago
I think it's a cool idea. It could be great for discovering new papers in a fun way.
boutell•42m ago
This is a bit like discovering punk rock for the first time and rolling your eyes and saying "yeah, we really need more rock"
freehorse•19m ago
No, it is more like "tiktok for punk rock discovery: find the most authentic punk rock in our new app".
londont•58m ago
Love this! Looking forward to trying it.

FYI I'm getting "Too many signups right now. Please try again in a few minutes." when trying to sign up to the waiting list. (congrats haha, but good to fix)

beng-nl•51m ago
Idea Looks really attractive to me too.

I joined the waiting list.

I hope it’s not purely ai generated, but who knows, maybe it is and it’s still interesting and informative. It could still be with such huge volume and high signal basis. Wish I’d thought of this actually.

boutell•43m ago
Already "too many signups" at 13 votes, ruh roh

This looks amazing. I hope Android will be an option.

Plywood1•34m ago
Just what humanity needed: TikTok for scientific papers, with AI! I find myself looking up to the sky wishing for an asteroid to hit Earth on a daily basis, lately...
jonas21•25m ago
Is your negativity a knee-jerk reaction to TikTok and AI, or do you have a substantive criticism of the idea?

There are so many papers being written these days that it's difficult to find all the ones that are relevant to your work and interests. Likewise, there's a discoverability problem for authors who are not already well-known. Andrej Karpathy's arXiv Sanity site used to be a decent way of doing this, but sadly it's been down for a while now.

iugtmkbdfil834•15m ago
I did the same thing as parent, but from the other end. I liked the start, but then I started going negative as I realized that the medium of 'presenting a lot structured information' and the medium of 'lets make it appealing to a visual person' do not have a lot of overlap. There is some, but there is a valid question of whether "TikTok, but for papers" is not just a bad way to advertise it to people reading papers, people on HN, but ALSO to people who consume TikTok.. it prepares a mediocre experience for all 3 groups.

It is an interesting mix though. I am not dismissing it outright. After all, I am driving ford lightning and kinda like ratty..

jhartikainen•28m ago
In some ways I like the concept. Making interesting papers easier to find and easier to digest seems like a good thing.

But the popularity metrics and AI aspects seem like they will cause a bias towards certain types of papers, making potentially useful ones not get found.

vaylian•18m ago
I'm intrigued. But can the AI part be turned off?
kamranjon•17m ago
Just wanted to maybe make a light suggestions that, for marketing purposes, this really doesn't need any suggestion of TikTok and also might benefit from less heavy handed mentions of AI. I think it provides a real value proposition on its own without needing to rely on those two things to sell itself. They are pretty polarized terms at this point and I can sort of understand the initial revulsion from hearing TikTok next to scientific papers.
iugtmkbdfil834•7m ago
I think there is something to it. It seems that "TikTok" part is actually minimal, but it is bound, from purely marketing perspective, to drive some people here away. You might as well say something along the lines of Uber for bananas or "we pivot banana to AI and we are now Nutella AI"
AdityaAnuragi•16m ago
Didn't expect to see TikTok and scientific papers in the same sentence but it's somehow interesting
mufasachan•16m ago
Insightful comment ahead:

Is the gravity set very high or am I getting too old to play Flappy Bird with Transformers?

vinni2•16m ago
This is exactly the problem with science reporting. All things can go wrong like click bait, out of context conclusions etc will go wrong.
utopiah•13m ago
Accountless Web version?
dumpHero2•11m ago
I've enjoyed consuming information about interested research papers on instagram, and insta has been good at showing me more of such content. But I think a dedicated platform would be great too! It takes such scientific content creators lots of time to create a script, hook, include animations or other visual aids and also put the research in perspective with it's potential implications in the long terms. I am not sure if AI would be able to do a good job (yet).

My $0.02 try creating an AI powered science channel on YT or insta before spending time on creating a dedicated app.

7777777phil•11m ago
I like the idea. As others suggested it might be a good idea to drop the branding. Had the same considerations when I built a “Tinder” (1) for RSS Feeds. In the end it worked fine, if not better.

(1) https://philippdubach.com/posts/rss-swipr-find-blogs-like-yo...

abhik24•8m ago
What if we make a paid substack for scientific papers and put all papers behind a paywall. Oh .. wait.
dennisy•7m ago
I love this and wanted to build this - but https://www.alphaxiv.org/ already exists, and it gets no social action (hardly any papers have comments), so this makes me doubtful about this.

I am interested to hear if anyone knows why the format may not resonate with researchers or those reading papers in general?

My own reason is that to get value from a "social" site the number of interactions has to be high and of a fast speed for people to continue to engage, which is maybe not possible to hit on research papers.

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Show HN: TikTok but for Scientific Papers

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