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Re:Show HN: Doomscrolling Research Papers on Wednesday December 03, 2025 @08:23AM (#46134205)
Thanks, good suggestion!
Re:Show HN: Doomscrolling Research Papers on Tuesday December 02, 2025 @06:57AM (#46120383)
Thanks!

What topics are you interested in?

Two different directions I'm thinking of for Open Paper Digest:

- either some recommendation algorithm that figures out which topics you are interested in and serves you papers based on that. Would need a good way to get signals though. That's why I'm now bootstrapping the process with Huggingface Trending Papers, but that immediately constrains the topics.

- or more search driven, where you type "I'd like to read about X" and it starts your feed

With regards to anti-bubbling: interesting thought, a "reverse" recommendation algorithm...

Show HN: Doomscrolling Research Papers

https://www.openpaperdigest.com/

Hi HN,Would love your thoughts on Open Paper Digest. It’s a mobile feed that let’s you “doomscroll” through summaries of popular papers that were published recently.Backstory There’s a combination of factors lead me to build this:1. Quality of content social media apps has decreased, but I still notice that it is harder than ever for me to stay away from these apps. 2. I’ve been saying for a...

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