This is neat! As an academic, this is definitely something I can see using to share my work with friends and family, or showing on my lab website for each paper. Can’t wait to try it out.
A light mode would be great. I know that many people ask for a dark mode for the reason that they think that a light mode is more tiring than a dark mode but for me it is the opposite.
1. Add a donate button. Some folks probably just want to see more examples (or an example in their field, but don't have a specific paper in mind.)
2. Have a way to nominate papers to be examples. You could do this in the HN thread without any product changes. This could give good coverage of different fields and uncover weaknesses in the product.
Thanks John. Neat to see you on the HN front page.
One LLM feature I've been trying to teach Alltrna is scraping out data from supplemental tables (or the figures themselves) and regraphing them to see if we come to the same conclusions as the authors.
LLMs can be overly credulous with the authors' claims, but finding the real data and analysis methods is too time consuming. Perhaps Claude with the right connectors can shorten that.
So far i really like what it does for the example articles shown. I want to test it on 1 or 2 articles I know well, and if it passes that test it's a product I'd totally pay for.
I don't want to downplay the effort here but from my experience you can get yourself a neat interactive summary html with a short prompt and a good model (Opus 4.5+, Codex 5.2+, etc).
Can you give am example of the most useful prompting you find for this? I'd like to interact with papers just so I can have my attention held. I struggle to motivate myself to read through something that's difficult to understand
This is super helpful for visual learners and for starting to onboard one's mind into a new domain.
Excited to see where you take this.
Might be interesting to have options for converting Wikipedia pages or topic searches down the line.
Social previews would be great to add
https://socialsharepreview.com/?url=https://nowigetit.us/pag...
1. Add a donate button. Some folks probably just want to see more examples (or an example in their field, but don't have a specific paper in mind.)
2. Have a way to nominate papers to be examples. You could do this in the HN thread without any product changes. This could give good coverage of different fields and uncover weaknesses in the product.
Maybe a combo where I keep a list and automatically process as funds become available.
One LLM feature I've been trying to teach Alltrna is scraping out data from supplemental tables (or the figures themselves) and regraphing them to see if we come to the same conclusions as the authors.
LLMs can be overly credulous with the authors' claims, but finding the real data and analysis methods is too time consuming. Perhaps Claude with the right connectors can shorten that.
I could change to a simple cost+ model but don’t want to bother until I see if people like it.
Ideas for splitting the difference so more people can use it without breaking my bank appreciated
I'd probably use it now.
Can you give me more info on why you’d want to install it yourself? Is this an enterprise thing?