ELI: 'Explain Like I'm' Tool for Any ArXiv Paper Hits HN
Voxos / Hacker News (20pts, 3 comments)·low signal
ELI (Explain Like I'm) is a new tool that takes any ArXiv paper URL and generates plain-language explanations at different complexity levels, making dense research papers accessible to non-specialists. At 20 points on HN, it represents the growing ecosystem of AI-powered research tooling aimed at democratizing access to academic literature. For builders and researchers who need to quickly assess whether a paper is relevant to their work, this addresses the real bottleneck of paper triage in the era of 500+ AI papers per week on ArXiv.