AI · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Cool Tech Papers
Hacker News for CS/ML research
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier. Cool Tech Papers launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Hey guys, I love HN! I wanted to extend the same aesthetic and community towards things beyond tech-related news. I thought it would be cool to get the same quality of community gathered around the latest and greatest research coming out. Let me know what you guys think of what I have so far. It's still early so there are probably bugs and other quality issues. If there's any features missing that you'd want let me know. ALSO, if any of you are familiar with the map of the territory of any particular field, please let me know! Would love to pick your brain and to come up with a 'most…
2024 · papertalk.xyz · its alternatives →
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A repository of academic computer science papers
2015 · paperswelove.org · its alternatives →
- 3TP
2019 · getpolarized.io · its alternatives →
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- 5TP
2019 · hackernewspapers.com · its alternatives →
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BiblioBot▲118Get the best research papers to learn
2023 · squidandfish.gumroad.com · its alternatives →
- 7TB
2016 · hackernewsbooks.com · its alternatives →
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7M – Trang tin tức bóng đá uy tín, cập nhật kết quả bóng đá (KQBĐ) và bảng xếp hạng (BXH) mới nhất theo từng trận đấu.
2023 · paperlist.io · its alternatives →
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NewsBot▲189The fastest way to find related articles
2015 · pedicuresalonaangenaam.nl · its alternatives →
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A Linux desktop in the cloud built for Machine Learning
2016 · its alternatives →
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Open Paper▲289Hi HN! Open Paper allows you to annotate and understand your research papers with an AI copilot. I wanted a paper-reading assistant that let met actually dig into papers in-place while benefiting from AI tooling. When it comes to studying, I'm not a fan of the typical chat interfaces that obfuscate uploaded files and turn them into black box 'content'. Hence, I've implemented a split-pane view. To mitigate the risk of hallucinations, all AI responses come with grounded citations that refer back to the source material in-flow. Some feature highlights: - Actually read your papers in one place…
2025 · openpaper.ai · its alternatives →
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Hacker News, Without AIfree▲197Source: https://github.com/leiDnedyA/hn-without-ai
Sep 2026 · unslop.news · its alternatives →
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I built this tool to help me find interesting discussions on Hacker News. I love reading HN discussions almost more than the articles themselves. However, I found that full text search, although highly performant, is not always good at surfacing interesting discussions on a certain topic -- especially if you don't know what to search for exactly. I built this by scraping the most recent ~6 million posts (that's about 2 years of history) and putting the resulting posts and their vector embeddings into Postgres. Let me know what could be improved, and if you'd like a more detailed writeup of…
2024 · searchhacker.news · its alternatives →
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Interact, search and follow the latest HN posts on Messenger
2016 · messenger.com · its alternatives →
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Papers with Code▲184The latest in machine learning at your fingerprints
2019 · huggingface.co · its alternatives →
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Code Words▲73A quarterly publication about programming from Hacker School
2014 · codewords.recurse.com · its alternatives →
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PaperClip▲98Memorize details from papers in machine learning and AI
2023 · paperclipapp.xyz · its alternatives →
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2014 · mlh.com · its alternatives →
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