Show HN: Arxiv Vanity – Read academic papers from Arxiv as responsive web pages
We were frustrated by the experience of reading machine learning papers on screens (particularly phones/tablets). There are lots of good tools for authoring HTML papers (Distill, Authorea, etc) but nothing that deals with the vast number of PDF papers that already exist.<p>So, we built Arxiv Vanity: a site that renders Arxiv papers as web pages. It’s still pretty janky, but for the papers that do render correctly, the experience is so much better than reading a PDF. For example:<p><a href="https://www.arxiv-vanity.com/papers/1705.04085v3/" rel="nofollow">https://www.arxiv-vanity.com/papers/1705.04085v3/</a><p><a href="https://www.arxiv-vanity.com/papers/1708.00884/" rel="nofollow">https://www.arxiv-vanity.com/papers/1708.00884/</a><p><a href="https://www.arxiv-vanity.com/papers/1705.06031v2/" rel="nofollow">https://www.arxiv-vanity.com/papers/1705.06031v2/</a><p>The source for the LaTeX to HTML renderer is on GitHub[0]. It’s built on Pandoc[1] and Distill.pub’s template[2].<p>[0] <a href="https://github.com/arxiv-vanity/engrafo" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/arxiv-vanity/engrafo</a><p>[1] <a href="https://pandoc.org" rel="nofollow">https://pandoc.org</a><p>[2] <a href="https://github.com/distillpub/template" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/distillpub/template</a>