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Everytime I start reading a book, I feel like uploading it in NotebookLM/ChatGPT to get QA; but these don't let me read in their app, and its not easy to get digital copies of books. I also want to ask questions adjacent to what I'm reading easily; I wonder if there are great apps&#x2...

I found myself jumping between ChatGPT, tabs, and docs, but never building real understanding. This is my attempt at fixing that — for researchers, curious readers, and lifelong learners.<p>Would love your thoughts on the interface, and whether this would be useful in your own work or otherwise.

I built a tool for academics and practitioners that turns literature reviews into interactive, visual experiences. Upload PDFs and HTML sources, and AI creates a knowledge map showing how everything connects.<p>What it does: - Upload research papers (PDFs) and web sources (HTML) - AI generates inter...

Hey HN! I built ProRead to solve the problem of getting stalled by walls of text in books or losing the big picture while reading.<p>Key features: • Start from a bird&#x27;s-eye view, then zoom into any level of detail • Interactive knowledge maps show how concepts connect • Seamlessly navigate betw...

We built ProRead as a new interface for researching anything with an LLM. Instead of chat, you explore topics through an interactive map of ideas. The interface changes the level of detail like when zooming in and out on Google Maps. Click to go deeper, expand branches, and always stay grounded in s...

Hi HN,<p>I go into several rabbit holes in LLM conversations, and while chat is great in the moment, I quickly lose track of the body of knowledge that I covered. Backtracking and multi session usage becomes annoying.<p>So I&#x27;m building out proread, where an AI agent maps out your conversation c...

I&#x27;m not looking for frameworks. I want to read actual implementations which are of the nature of either deep research or coding agents. Candiates that come to mind are gemini-cli&#x2F;codex&#x2F;smolagents deep research. Would love to have a discussion thread on this.

Hi everyone,<p>LLMs have made me feel like I can understand anything, but I’ve been frustrated trying to truly understand ML papers using just ChatGPT or static PDFs. Summaries can help, but then I have to go back to the paper and read it linearly to deeply understand it, and I have long chatgpt con...

I built ProRead as a new interface for researching anything with an LLM. Instead of chat, you explore topics through an interactive map of ideas. The interface changes the level of detail like when zooming in and out on Google Maps. Click to go deeper, expand branches, and always stay grounded in so...

I wanted to get a high level view of 10-Ks, they were intimidating to me; so I built out this map based view of them. You can clone these, and consume them with an AI agent helping you out. Curious for feedback!

I find reading no fiction (sometimes fiction) books sometimes wasteful, and want some combination of coverage and searching for what I want. I also want to listen to my book chapters on my commute and then come back to read them. So I am building this app to help solve this problem. Curious if you f...

I wanted to start high level over a bunch of documents I wanted to consume and compare, then dive deep on demand&#x2F;ask questions and such. You can clone these, and consume them with an AI. Curious for feedback!

I like using LLMs to get summaries, but then I often want to deeply compare docs, read parts of the original, and ask questions as I go, all the while doing some note taking to keep track of my progress. I built out an interface to help do all of this coherently - in the space above I was comparing...

Instead of reading Paul Graham&#x27;s essays one by one, you can now explore them through interactive knowledge maps organized by topic.<p>I&#x27;ve always found PG&#x27;s essays incredibly valuable, but there&#x27;s a problem: they&#x27;re scattered across 20+ years and 200+ pieces. You read &quot;...