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178points
53comments
#327of 3,109 in 2023
Top 11%of 2023 by points

How HN took it

MixedNo clear lean

3 positive, 12 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 8 critical, out of 25 comments about the project. Thread score -0.12.

Idea: 1 for, 4 againstDesign: 2 for, 1 againstPerformance: 0 for, 2 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 against

The thread, comment by comment

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positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker

What HN said

What people liked

  • Polished, intentional interface

    From 2 comments
    • Was the entire frontend built during the hackathon? It's incredibly polished! What did you use?
      crmass on HN
    • It also appears like the filter dropdown in the bottom right corner needs additional space from the bottom of the screen (right now, the dropdown is cut off by the page…
      j2718h on HN

Objections

  • Summaries seem generated from abstracts, not full papers, and can be inaccurate

    From 2 comments
    • not crazy with some of the results, e.g., https://www.bulletpapers.ai/paper/1d002187-927d-6775-94e2-a41907d2f89d - Bulletpapers title: Using robots to map and digitize…
      therobot24 on HN
    • All of it is hallucinated, some times it happens to be accurate, some other times it is not.
      frontalier on HN
  • Site was down for some users

    From 1 comment

Requests

  • Personalized summaries for reader's knowledge level

    From 2 comments
    • The real silver bullet would be not to summarize for a general layperson but somehow, personally, for the context of "me", whoever that is. For instance, the amount of…
      kristopolous on HN
    • I don’t think it’s that much work, if you have a general sense of your knowledge domains. I described the platform I work on in a few sentences, my knowledge level, and what I…
      hhh on HN
  • Newsletter of featured papers

    From 1 comment
    • You should make a weekly newsletter with a few: new / featured / hot papers
      highwayman47 on HN

Questions

  • How does it work and what is the tech stack

    From 2 comments
    • how exactly does this work? is it placing calling gpt-4 with a template you've created or is something more fancy happening? and if its using gpt-4, why would someone use your…
      Heidaradar on HN
    • what's the tech stack?
      benthecoder on HN

Alternatives named

  • Papers With Code

    From 1 comment
    • Reminds me of the more ML specific https://paperswithcode.com/
      vrtnis on HN
  • findsight.ai

    From 1 comment
    • I built something similar for non fiction books and articles: https://findsight.ai. It’s nearing 10,000 users.
      summarity on HN

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