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Products that do what How I Wish Scientific Papers Were Displayed does

1. 1AH
   A HN/Reddit-style site for scientific pre-prints and publications▲275

   2018 · upvote.pub

2. 2AS
   AlphaZero Science paper▲200

   2018 · deepmind.com

3. 3FO
   Feed of current articles for science lovers shortened to bullet points▲94

   2019 · bullets.tech

4. 4PI
   Papers-I-read▲6

   2016 · github.com

5. 5NI
   Now I Get It – Translate scientific papers into interactive webpages▲305

   Understanding scientific articles can be tough, even in your own field. Trying to comprehend articles from others? Good luck. Enter, Now I Get It! I made this app for curious people. Simply upload an article and after a few minutes you'll have an interactive web page showcasing the highlights. Generated pages are stored in the cloud and can be viewed from a gallery. Now I Get It! uses the best LLMs out there, which means the app will improve as AI improves. Free for now - it's capped at 20 articles per day so I don't burn cash. A few things I (and maybe you will) find interesting: * This is…

   Feb 2026 · nowigetit.us

6. 6AU
   A UI That Lets Readers Control How Much Information They See▲100

   2018 · kayce.basqu.es

7. 7
   Studies.Show▲206

   140 character summaries of interesting research papers.

   2015

8. 8PT
   Paper Time – Listen to abstracts of CS papers, like a custom podcast▲161

   2021 · papertime.app

9. 9MM
   Make Medium Readable Again▲193

   2017 · github.com

10. 10SP
    Sioyek – PDF viewer for reading research papers and technical documents▲272

    2021 · sioyek.info

11. 11SO
    Summaries of interesting content, written by people▲131

    2012 · tldr.io

12. 12CS
    Coredemia – share and discuss research papers▲60

    2014 · coredemia.com

13. 13AL
    A little knowledge portal I've been building▲72

    2016 · tuvalie.com

14. 14VA
    Vellum – An interactive list of nonfiction books reviewed by academics▲140

    2021 · vellum.tachy.org

15. 15PB
    Paperdocs, better documentation for the web▲7

    2016 · francisco.io

16. 16UO
    usefulscience.org – one sentence summaries of journal articles▲15

    2014 · usefulscience.org

17. 17RS
    Read science papers for free...it's sci-hub, but legal▲26

    2017 · unpaywall.org

18. 18MA
    Manage, annotate, and share research papers▲24

    2013 · papershipapp.com

19. 19AO
    An open science community▲70

    2011 · science.io

20. 20
    Papermine▲80

    Create stunning digital booklets.

    2014

21. 21SY
    Send Your Favorite Articles to the Future▲42

    2013 · timecapsule.io

22. 22GO
    Gallery of posts from Paper.app▲29

    2012 · thepaperboard.com

23. 23SP
    Science Papers Simplified▲10

    Hi HN, Even though I do science, I struggle to understand papers in adjacent fields. So I built thetrecs.com to aggregate and serve simplified summaries of the newest papers in Cell/Nature/Science. By scrolling through thetrecs I've made new science more accessible to myself, and maybe to you too. Any feedback is of course welcome.

    2024 · thetrecs.com

24. 24UL
    Using LLMs and >1k 4090s to visualize 100k scientific research articles▲5

    Oct 2025 · twitter.com

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