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Posted by
dndndnd on Saturday September 30, 2023 @09:03AM
from the show-hn dept.
https://synthical.com/special/black
I'm particularly proud of the fact that it preserves the color palette of the images. I mean, if part of the image in the PDF is yellow, it will also be yellow in dark mode.
I think we will redesign it in a way Apple Books does this (they also have a streak)
Me too! We actually want to display simplified/summarized abstracts (using LLMs) instead of actual titles
Is it fixed or not? I cannot confirm because I cannot reproduce
> Sounds reasonably handy, do you rely on users to tell you if the LLM generated simplifications are misleading?
Not yet, but this is in our roadmap for sure
> EXCEPT the actual authors would verify and publish specific alternates.
This is also a good one, except that there's already 100s of millions of research papers that need to be summarized. But probably we can ask the audience / researchers themselves to verify summaries once we produce a summary for a particular paper
Huhuh nice, no worries, I plan to work on this "44 requests" part (just had no time to do that)
> looks very promising
Huh thanks! Do you have any ideas about features or anything?
I have some issues with this "HN is perfectly readable" statement, but I get your point, hopefully we'll find a way to fix this one :)
> what does "Let AI simplify articles, clarify terms, and help you do research" mean?
If you select a text from a paper and click on "Simplify" in a popup, it will try to tell you what it means. The "help you do research" is a more broad part thought huh
> Is it something revolutionary and amazingly useful like that
We (right now a team of two) plan to develop an AI-assisted peer review. What I mean is that we can use LLMs to check for some "bad things" in paper (like small sample size or some weird hypothesis etc) + analyze the comments and the users behind these comments.
> just deciding what to show you in a feed based on past history?
Surely not, but this is what we already have in the product right now
Nope, I'm sorry if I was unclear, I was saying I've removed requirement to click on articles in the feed. This is a bit more complicated task with categories (due to some backend things I need to change), but I do understand the problem
Whoops! Nope, this is actually thanks to NextJS 13 and its hydration
I won't promise we will find a way to fix this (because search (as an example) is a core functionality and cannot be moved elsewhere), but we will try
When hackerone adds a news board
> If there wasn't anything on astronomy
Okay, gotcha, I think I have an idea how to fix this :)
> Most links that reach the front page have something interesting to offer.
Synthical has this functionality (I mean, "Top articles") in the right bar, but yep, I understand what you mean
> now the site is not even up
Well, we're up, no worries
> than just going to HN
This is true, but HN is not focused on science
If you click on an article in a feed, it's still there? Because that's the thing I was referring to
No worries, I've just removed this, now you can freely read any article with no account needed.
> I tried to check out the categories
Hm, okay!
> But when prompted for a login/sign-up, I lost interest.
This is a one I cannot remove that fast (due to the way backend processes these categories), but I'm just curious, why did you loose an interest? I mean, yes, it requires login, and so?
This is a really good point, thank you! Probably our mobile layout sucks
No worries, I've just removed this, now you can read articles with no account needed. Honestly, thanks a lot for the feedback, that's the most valuable thing to have at this stage :)
> more confusing
Could you please elaborate?
> had less information on the page
Is it a bad thing? I mean, I can add some sort of a setting to display more / less content in different density, is this what you'd want?
Just curious, how would you increase an information density at Synthical without loosing readability?
This is an interesting comparison. I think this depends on the age and habits of a particular user. I mean, I honestly don't like HN's design that much, it looks like a thing from 00's.
No worries, I have just removed it, now you can read articles with no account needed
> login necessary
I have just removed it, now you can read articles with no account needed
> I like it
Thank you :)
> requires account to view more than homepage
No worries, I've just removed this. Now you can read all articles with no account needed. Thank you for the feedback :)
Posted by
dndndnd on Saturday September 09, 2023 @10:33AM
from the show-hn dept.
Posted by
dndndnd on Thursday April 20, 2023 @11:44AM
from the github.com dept.