alt Hacker NewsDo people browse arxiv or monitor new posts like reddit or something? I only visit when I encounter a link to it or when I search for a specific paper.
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https://www.alphaxiv.org/ is a nice place to browse, search for, and read ArXiv papers which have optional AI summaries and chat. If you like one paper, you can get a list of similar papers.
To view a specific paper, just take original link and change "arxiv" --> "alphaxiv". For example: https://www.alphaxiv.org/abs/1706.03762
I suggest Scholar Inbox.
https://www.scholar-inbox.com/landing
It is a recommendation system for new papers that come out each day. If you train it a bit by specifying what you like and don't like you'll get a pretty reliable feed.
I use the RSS feeds to watch for papers mentioning terms I'm curious about, do a casual skim for anything interesting and maybe end up finding a paper per month or two that are useful to read more carefully. Lots of chaff for sure, but if you have some core interests it's quite useful.
I built a bluesky bot if someone is interested in having a live feed of the articles.
You can find it here: https://bsky.app/profile/arxiv-daily-bot.bsky.social
Yes, people do that. Karpathy made a utility to monitor it better years ago: https://github.com/karpathy/arxiv-sanity-preserver
A bit too big and varied to browse, but you can get emails of all recent papers in your field(s) of interest with something like Scholars: https://app.scholars.io/newsletter I subscribe to "Functional Analysis" and get a weekly email listing 30-40 papers.
Not all the time, but I certainly do to keep up with latest results. Usually, these days I go through SciRate, where the quantum computing community is very active in voting up good paper [1].
Yeah, it is not too uncommon that people visit the new listings (or subscribe to the email version) to (try to) keep track of what is going on in your field.
Supposing of course your field roughly matches one of the categories.
I did when I was in academia. Would open each day and check what new papers were in my field. It was fun, and I learned a ton.
I kept it up out of habit for a year after grad school. Then moved on.
I get google scholar alerts according to authors.
I’m RSS-subscribed to a few sections relevant to my research.
RSSFeed yes
It depends on the kind of people. Most normal people don't do that, it's not a reddit-like platform after all.
But most researchers and grad students (like me) often subscribe to daily mailing list of the papers dropping that day from their particular field. Having a cursory read at the paper titles and then opening the papers further relevant to you is a morning ritual for many.