{"slug": "show-hn-papertrails-your-personalized-feed-of-new-research-papers", "title": "Show HN: Papertrails – Your personalized feed of new research papers", "summary": "An AI researcher launched Papertrails, a free tool that builds a personalized feed of new research papers based on a user's own paper library, as a Show HN post. The researcher said Google Scholar alerts are too noisy, Twitter is too skewed and word of mouth too fragile for tracking state-of-the-art techniques. Papertrails currently serves papers only from arXiv, with plans to add other journals.", "body_md": "Hey HN,\n\nI’m an AI researcher who craves staying up to date on all of the state of the art techniques in my field.\n\nYet I’ve become very frustrated with my workflow for discovering new papers.\n\nGoogle scholar alerts are too noisy, twitter is too skewed, and relying on word of mouth alone is too fragile. I created Papertrails to solve this problem for myself.\n\nPapertrails builds a feed of new research papers, personalized to your interests, based on your own library of papers. It’s free to use, so try it out and let me know what you think!\n\n—\n\nNote: The app only serves papers from arXiv, hoping to add other journals soon\n\nComments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50455972](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50455972)\n\nPoints: 1\n\n# Comments: 0", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-papertrails-your-personalized-feed-of-new-research-papers", "canonical_source": "https://www.papertrails.app/", "published_at": "2026-11-11 17:26:53+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-11-11 17:51:25.434613+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-research", "ai-tools", "artificial-intelligence"], "entities": ["Papertrails", "arXiv", "Google Scholar", "Hacker News"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-papertrails-your-personalized-feed-of-new-research-papers", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-papertrails-your-personalized-feed-of-new-research-papers.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-papertrails-your-personalized-feed-of-new-research-papers.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-papertrails-your-personalized-feed-of-new-research-papers.jsonld"}}