Thread

1. upupupandaway · 1790210032 · focus · HN ↗

   Asking earnestly: is ArXiv a valuable resource? I used it few years back when finishing my (late) Master's, but also saw a lot of crap published there (primarily for promotion/visa purposes) so it kind of took the shine out of the service for me.

   1. edot · 1790210376 · focus · HN ↗

      It’s good for getting free access to preprints which are often close enough to the paywalled real papers in journals. If I find a paper I want (or more realistically, if ChatGPT finds a paper it wants for me), but it’s behind a paywall, odds are the authors put a preprint on arXiv.

Unofficial Hacker News client; not affiliated with Y Combinator.