TL;DR AI
Learning and science
research paper summaries
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How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
6 positive, 11 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 10 critical, out of 29 comments about the project. Thread score -0.17.
Idea: 6 for, 8 against
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What people liked
Summaries useful for scanning lists of papers
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Which is really what makes them useful. Abstracts are great at what they try to be, but the typical abstract requires a lot of attention to actually read. These summaries lend…
wongarsu on HNPresumably you read the summaries to find promising papers where you will read the abstract (which you then follow up by reading the figures, conclusion, discussion,…
wongarsu on HN
Cross-referenced concept definitions idea appealing
From 1 comment
Yeah that sounds awesome to me. It addresses one of the shortcomings of the conventional abstract style which is that nothing is cross referenced - most journals still disallow…
rsfern on HN
Objections
Summaries are not real abstracts and lack structure
From 1 comment
Want to point out that these one to two sentence summaries are not abstracts. They lack the structure and content of actual abstracts. Also how can they be community-written if…
tokai on HN
Shallow knowledge distillation encourages FOMO
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The problem with this kind of tool is the shallowness of knowledge distillation. Content on the internet should enlighten us, not feed us with 140-character TL;DR abstracts,…
ofou on HN
Confusing title and domain name
From 2 comments
Maybe consider a different domain and website title. From the comments here, it seems like several people are confused.
latexr on HNCan we change the title to something like "Show HN: 'TL;DR AI', community-written abstracts for research papers"? The name of the project, "TL;DR AI", seems to be causing…
tel on HN
Only a few abstracts so far and no voting visible to anonymous users
From 1 comment
Useful idea, but needs a lot more work IMO e.g. - Looks like there's just 7 abstracts right now. - Most of the abstracts are written by the author of the paper, so might not be…
vvrm on HN
AI-generated summaries may be padded or biased
From 2 comments
Please no. Generated TLDR includes useless fluff in my experience.
smusamashah on HN>they don't have to add anything that wasn't already expressed in the paper, limiting the need for creativity But how could we know they add nothing or missed something important…
croes on HN
Requests
Change the confusing title
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Can we change the title to something like "Show HN: 'TL;DR AI', community-written abstracts for research papers"? The name of the project, "TL;DR AI", seems to be causing…
tel on HNAn admin might be willing to change it (: Could be changed to "TL;DR AI, a ..."
ramon156 on HN
Add guidelines and documentation
From 2 comments
Useful idea, but needs a lot more work IMO e.g. - Looks like there's just 7 abstracts right now. - Most of the abstracts are written by the author of the paper, so might not be…
vvrm on HNI think it’s an interesting idea. It could use a documentation page with some clear examples and some guidelines. Don’t use undefined acronyms, try to make it self contained,…
rsfern on HN
Subject filters
From 1 comment
Hi, sorry for the confusion It started as a TL;DRs platform for research papers on AI, ideated by Francois Fleuret on X, but when I started coding this (and of course already…
yu3zhou4 on HN
Reddit-style voting and comments
From 1 comment
This website would be cool if it can be turned into the format of a subreddit, i.e: 1. Each paper and its abstract as a post 2. Up/down vote arrows and a number 3. Comment section
wuj on HN
Questions
Is this AI-generated or community-written?
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I'm confused. It's supposed to be human-written abstracts of papers relating to "AI"? Or AI written abstracts for science papers in general? The examples seem to all be machine…
pbhjpbhj on HNThe title was also generated by an AI?
meindnoch on HN
Why is this not Show HN?
From 1 comment
Want to point out that these one to two sentence summaries are not abstracts. They lack the structure and content of actual abstracts. Also how can they be community-written if…
tokai on HN
Alternatives named
EmergentMind.com
From 1 comment
If you're a fan of tldr-ai, you might also like my site, EmergentMind.com, which does something similar: it surfaces trending AI papers based on social media engagement…
matt1 on HN
Structured abstracts in journals
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I feel like this is basically already what people who promote their papers on twitter are doing. Other than Twitter or LinkedIn or something (I don’t really use either) I’m not…
rsfern on HN