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ArXivMax – video explainers for any research paper

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Video & audio Hacker News Launched Jul 23, 2026 by rwu1997 View original post ↗

I 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) 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/2006.11239For now it's completely free to use until I run out of tokens (thank Codex for having an insanely subsidized monthly token plan!)

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