Show HN: Everyday's ArXiv Papers Explained at Your Level

Hey HN, I’m Moe, and I built Everyday Academic because trying to stay up to date with research was driving me crazy. I tend to spend my mornings jumping between newsletters, HN, PapersWithCode, ArXiv, HuggingFace, and GitHub just to track what’s new.

After a while, I realized two things: 1. I don’t know nearly as much as I thought about Computer Science. 2. I know even less about anything outside of CS.

Spending time on arXiv opened my eyes to all the incredible research happening across fields I didn’t even know existed, but actually understanding it was a whole different challenge. That’s why I built this — to help myself digest what’s going on in these papers, whether it's CS or something totally different.

What Everyday Academic does: Set Your Expertise: Adjust your knowledge level for each topic. Summaries change to match, and you can fine-tune it for specific papers by clicking a gauge. Glossary: Click on keywords in the summaries to save them to your Glossary, where you’ll get tailored explanations. You can then dive deeper by exploring the terms inside the definitions, kind of like a Wikipedia hyperlink. Filter by Topic: Filter papers by category and subcategory, so you’re only seeing the research that’s relevant to you. It’s a much easier way to stay on top of new papers that you think you'll care about.

On top of that: Star Papers: Save papers that catch your interest. Full Paper Access: Easily open the full PDF or go straight to the arXiv page.

It pulls from the arXiv RSS feed, and the summaries & glossary definitions are generated by Claude Sonnet 3.5. I made this to simplify how I keep up with research, and now I’m curious if it helps anyone else. Feel free to check it out and let me know what you think!