{"slug": "show-hn-what-research-is-your-code-standing-on", "title": "Show HN: What research is your code standing on?", "summary": "A new Show HN project called Standing on analyzes a pasted GitHub repository's Python code — its imports, calls, loaded models, and papers cited in comments and README — and matches each piece to the research paper behind it using Lacuna, giving each paper a one-line key idea. Two AI models, Claude and Codex, select the papers and the links between them, with each pick checked against Lacuna; solid lines mark links both models agree on and dashed lines mark one model's pick. Results export as BibTeX, CSV or Markdown, and users can dig back from any paper or open the Tree to trace an idea to earlier work, sometimes a century back.", "body_md": "What research is your code standing on?\n\nPaste a GitHub repo. Standing on reads its Python code (imports, calls, models it loads, papers cited in comments and the README) and matches each piece to the research paper behind it, using Lacuna. Each paper gets a one-line key idea.\n\nDig back from any paper, or open the Tree, to follow its idea to the earlier work it came from, sometimes a century back. Two AI models, Claude and Codex, pick the papers and the links between them, and each is checked against Lacuna. Solid lines are links both models agree on; dashed lines are one model's pick.\n\nEverything exports as BibTeX, CSV or Markdown.\n\n**Dig back**", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-what-research-is-your-code-standing-on", "canonical_source": "https://lacuna.tiptreesystems.com/standing-on", "published_at": "2026-10-30 13:02:07+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-10-30 13:16:58.738838+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-tools", "ai-research", "developer-tools", "ai-agents"], "entities": ["Standing on", "GitHub", "Lacuna", "Claude", "Codex"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-what-research-is-your-code-standing-on", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-what-research-is-your-code-standing-on.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-what-research-is-your-code-standing-on.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-what-research-is-your-code-standing-on.jsonld"}}