Show HN: ArXivMax – visual explainers for any research paper

A developer launched ArXivMax, a free tool that generates 3Blue1Brown-style video explainers for any arXiv paper using the open-source Manim animation engine, aiming to help users passively consume research papers. The tool, currently free while the creator's Codex token plan lasts, already features an explainer for the 2020 DDPM diffusion paper.

have a bad habit of bookmarking arXiv papers and never getting around to them. So I built arXivMax to make it easier to go through them. Think 3Blue1Brown-style video explainers it uses the same OSS Manim engine underneath for the visuals: https://github.com/manimCommunity/manim https://github.com/manimCommunity/manim generated for any arXiv paper. No, this isn't to replace paper reading entirely, but it's a great passive listen in the background while you're vibe-coding/tokenmaxxing/washing the dishes. Here's one on the 2020 DDPM paper that popularized the Diffusion architecture: https://www.arxivmax.com/papers/2006.11239 https://www.arxivmax.com/papers/2006.11239 For now it's completely free to use until I run out of tokens thank Codex for having an insanely subsidized monthly token plan Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49022010 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49022010 Points: 1 Comments: 0