<story><title>Ask HN: How do you get notified about newest research papers in your field?</title></story><parent_chain><item><author>karpathy</author><text>I wrote &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.arxiv-sanity.com&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.arxiv-sanity.com&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt; (code is open source on github: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;karpathy&amp;#x2F;arxiv-sanity-preserver&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;karpathy&amp;#x2F;arxiv-sanity-preserver&lt;/a&gt;) as a side project intended to mitigate the problem of finding newest relevant work in an area (among many other related problems such as finding similar papers, or seeing what others are reading) and it sees a steady number of few hundred users every day and a few thousand accounts. It&amp;#x27;s meant to be designed around modular views of lists of arxiv papers, each view supporting a use case. I&amp;#x27;m always eager to hear feedback on how people use the site, what could be improved, or what other use cases could be added.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>visarga</author><text>Andrej, thank you very much for making this site. I use it every day.&lt;p&gt;A problem: I think one of the most necessary things that are missing from  arXiv.org is comments. People just come, read, and then take their discussions somewhere else, fragmented all around the net. Arxiv-Sanity already filters just the ML articles and does personalized feeds, maybe it could also be a place of discussion. I know it potentially leads to other complications (like moderation), but I really think readers would benefit from reviews, questions and answers.&lt;p&gt;The current ML related discussion sites (blogs, &amp;#x2F;r&amp;#x2F;machinelearning, G+, Twitter, StackExchange and YC) are often mixed with lots of noise. I&amp;#x27;d like to read what researchers think.&lt;p&gt;Another suggestion: add links to code repositories, where they are available. Maybe some of your trusted users could be empowered with the right to add such links, if it&amp;#x27;s too much work for a single person. If interesting discussions are reported on other pages on the internet, they could also be added to the article, to make them easier to find.</text></comment>
<story><title>Ask HN: How do you get notified about newest research papers in your field?</title></story><parent_chain><item><author>karpathy</author><text>I wrote &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.arxiv-sanity.com&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.arxiv-sanity.com&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt; (code is open source on github: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;karpathy&amp;#x2F;arxiv-sanity-preserver&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;karpathy&amp;#x2F;arxiv-sanity-preserver&lt;/a&gt;) as a side project intended to mitigate the problem of finding newest relevant work in an area (among many other related problems such as finding similar papers, or seeing what others are reading) and it sees a steady number of few hundred users every day and a few thousand accounts. It&amp;#x27;s meant to be designed around modular views of lists of arxiv papers, each view supporting a use case. I&amp;#x27;m always eager to hear feedback on how people use the site, what could be improved, or what other use cases could be added.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dspoka</author><text>For me getting alerted when there are new papers that cite papers that are relevant towards my current research topic would be ideal. Google scholars has alerts on authors and search queries but for me they don&amp;#x27;t have enough recall.&lt;p&gt;Its much easier to tell when a paper is relevant for me if it happens to cite 3 of the commonly used datasets for my particular task.&lt;p&gt;btw I use arxiv-sanity, its pretty great, thanks a lot!</text></comment>