[julius]

Feels like science papers need a comment section. Replace peer-review with public-review. A way for authors to interact with the larger (science) community.

https://www.papertalk.xyz/ was on HN Frontpage but seems to not have gained any traction (yet).

Maybe arxiv should consider implementing it or integrating with some 3rd party?

[mazd]

I strongly agree!

alphaXiv (https://alphaxiv.org/) is a discussion layer on top of arXiv, and it's starting to gain a lot of traction.

You can replace the arXiv URL with "alphaXiv" to get to the discussion: https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.16710 → https://alphaxiv.org/abs/2404.16710

Disclaimer: I'm currently helping out with alphaXiv -- it's a fun project out of Stanford

[perforator]

Openreview is nice. I guess it could integrate with arxiv to allow preprints but someone needs to pay for moderation if we are to keep a high standard of comments.

[nico]

That’s a great idea. In a way, HN is that for many papers in topics that the HN community resonates with

Are there other communities that also post scientific papers and comment publicly? Even if the community isn’t exclusively about science?