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01 / EXPLORE THROUGH TIME

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Research papers using "kidney disappointment" instead of "kidney failure"↗ scholar.google.com · HN · 154 comments · 439 points · Aug 16, 2026
New arXiv policy: 1-year ban for hallucinated references↗ twitter.com · HN · 230 comments · 659 points · May 14, 2026
ArXiv declares independence from Cornell↗ science.org · HN · 277 comments · 811 points · Mar 20, 2026
Elsevier shuts down its finance journal citation cartel↗ chrisbrunet.com · HN · 108 comments · 561 points · Feb 23, 2026
A flawed paper in management science has been cited more than 6k times↗ statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu · HN · 374 comments · 715 points · Jan 25, 2026
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Beginning January 2026, all ACM publications will be made open access↗ dl.acm.org · HN · 239 comments · 2031 points · Dec 18, 2025
Starting July 1, academic publishers can't paywall NIH-funded research↗ nih.gov · HN · 108 comments · 646 points · May 01, 2025
AI tools are spotting errors in research papers↗ nature.com · HN · 215 comments · 601 points · Mar 07, 2025
CDC: Unpublished manuscripts mentioning certain topics must be pulled or revised↗ insidemedicine.substack.com · HN · 721 comments · 844 points · Feb 02, 2025
One of my papers got declined today↗ mathstodon.xyz · HN · 290 comments · 853 points · Jan 01, 2025
2024624 stories
20 years of Google Scholar↗ blog.google · HN · 186 comments · 419 points · Nov 18, 2024
alphaXiv: Open research discussion on top of arXiv↗ alphaxiv.org · HN · 178 comments · 549 points · Sep 08, 2024
MIT leaders describe the experience of not renewing Elsevier contract↗ sparcopen.org · HN · 220 comments · 587 points · Aug 20, 2024
Japan's push to make all research open access↗ nature.com · HN · 101 comments · 698 points · May 31, 2024
Stable Diffusion 3: Research Paper↗ stability.ai · HN · 94 comments · 503 points · Mar 05, 2024
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When a postdoc in my lab committed fraud, I had to face my own culpability↗ science.org · HN · 94 comments · 85 points · Dec 25, 2023
ArXiv now offers papers in HTML format↗ blog.arxiv.org · HN · 312 comments · 1204 points · Dec 21, 2023
Stanford president resigns over manipulated research, will retract 3 papers↗ stanforddaily.com · HN · 76 comments · 143 points · Jul 19, 2023
Fake scientific papers are alarmingly common↗ science.org · HN · 25 comments · 46 points · May 13, 2023
Sci-Hub: knowledge as a human right↗ sci-hub.ru · HN · 25 comments · 76 points · Jan 27, 2023
2022513 stories
Authors’ names have ‘astonishing’ influence on peer reviewers: study↗ nature.com · HN · 307 comments · 437 points · Oct 11, 2022
Guidance to make federally funded research freely available without delay↗ whitehouse.gov · HN · 267 comments · 1044 points · Aug 25, 2022
ACM Digital Library Archive is Open Access with 50 Years of Published Records↗ dl.acm.org · HN · 51 comments · 473 points · May 20, 2022
Unpaywall: An open database of 31,903,705 free scholarly articles↗ unpaywall.org · HN · 52 comments · 457 points · May 05, 2022
Sci-Hub statistics and database↗ sci-hub.ru · HN · 128 comments · 547 points · Feb 12, 2022
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Einstein award going to Paul Ginsparg for creating arXiv.org↗ idw-online.de · HN · 97 comments · 1128 points · Nov 26, 2021
Today Sci-Hub is 10 years old. I'll publish 2M new articles to celebrate↗ twitter.com · HN · 160 comments · 1154 points · Sep 05, 2021
Major U.K. science funder to require grantees to make papers immediately free↗ sciencemag.org · HN · 92 comments · 761 points · Aug 08, 2021
Collusion rings threaten the integrity of computer science research↗ m-cacm.acm.org · HN · 395 comments · 707 points · May 26, 2021
I tried to report scientific misconduct. How did it go?↗ crystalprisonzone.blogspot.com · HN · 352 comments · 895 points · Jan 27, 2021
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Ask HN: What's the best paper you've read in 2020?↗ news.ycombinator.com · HN · 192 comments · 705 points · Dec 08, 2020
Please read the paper before you comment↗ buttondown.email · HN · 327 comments · 719 points · Aug 25, 2020
New academic journal only publishes 'unsurprising' research rejected by others↗ cbc.ca · HN · 202 comments · 884 points · Aug 20, 2020
The Sci-Hub Effect: Sci-Hub downloads lead to more article citations↗ arxiv.org · HN · 92 comments · 754 points · Jul 02, 2020
MIT Ends Elsevier Negotiations↗ news.mit.edu · HN · 263 comments · 1104 points · Jun 11, 2020
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02 / CATCH UP

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ArXiv receives multiyear commitments to support it as an independent nonprofit↗ blog.arxiv.org · HN · 40 comments · 311 points · Sep 23, 2026
Asking authors about their own papers↗ medium.com · HN · 119 comments · 234 points · Sep 16, 2026
Vintage Scientific Papers with LaTeX↗ github.com · HN · 10 comments · 116 points · Sep 09, 2026
Ask HN: Any nerds out there who've read a lot of research papers?↗ news.ycombinator.com · HN · 28 comments · 29 points · Sep 24, 2026
Research papers using "kidney disappointment" instead of "kidney failure"↗ scholar.google.com · HN · 154 comments · 439 points · Aug 16, 2026

03 / GO DEEPER

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ArXiv receives multiyear commitments to support it as an independent nonprofit↗ blog.arxiv.org · HN · 40 comments · 311 points · Sep 23, 2026
Asking authors about their own papers↗ medium.com · HN · 119 comments · 234 points · Sep 16, 2026
A third of Perplexity's citations don't contain the number they're cited for↗ hausresearch.com · HN · 48 comments · 124 points · Sep 02, 2026
Vintage Scientific Papers with LaTeX↗ github.com · HN · 10 comments · 116 points · Sep 09, 2026
Ask HN: Any nerds out there who've read a lot of research papers?↗ news.ycombinator.com · HN · 28 comments · 29 points · Sep 24, 2026
FLAWED's Flaws and What This Means for Industry Research↗ suhacker.ai · HN · 4 comments · 24 points · Sep 24, 2026
Uploading Files to the Internet in Order to Cite Them↗ alignment.openai.com · HN · 5 comments · 19 points · Sep 17, 2026
Procrastination study by Duke's Dan Ariely retracted↗ retractionwatch.com · HN · 3 comments · 12 points · Sep 09, 2026
Ask HN: IEEE expulsion of Fei-Yue Wang?↗ news.ycombinator.com · HN · 2 comments · 11 points · Sep 24, 2026
Ask HN: ICLR went from 143 submissions to 62,301 submission IDs – what happened?↗ news.ycombinator.com · HN · 6 comments · 8 points · Sep 19, 2026

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