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nadmag.github.io 1y ago

LightLab: Controlling Light Sources in Images with Diffusion Models

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news.ycombinator.com 1y ago

Ask HN: Could you help me find an old post?

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news.ycombinator.com 1y ago

Ask HN: Could you explain deepseek r1 to me?

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tech.dreamleaves.org 1y ago

Trimming down a Rust binary in half

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nullderef.com 1y ago

Writing a Plugin System in Rust

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www.youtube.com 1y ago

Beelink Ex GPU Dock Hands On

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news.ycombinator.com 1y ago

Ask HN: Field Guide for Backward Compatible Protocol Design

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shi-yan.github.io 1y ago

Show HN: Free e-book about WebGPU Programming

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repo-sam.inria.fr 2y ago

Hierarchical 3D Gaussian Representation of Large Datasets

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github.com 2y ago

Executable Code Actions Elicit Better LLM Agents

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repo-sam.inria.fr 2y ago

Reducing the Memory Footprint of 3D Gaussian Splatting

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www.youtube.com 2y ago

1970s tank simulator drives through a tiny world [video]

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realmdreamer.github.io 2y ago

RealmDreamer: Text-Driven 3D Scene Generation

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news.ycombinator.com 2y ago

Ask HN: What's the ideal way of showing code in a technical book?

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flashtex.github.io 2y ago

FlashTex: Fast Relightable Mesh Texturing with LightControlNet

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vastgaussian.github.io 2y ago

VastGaussian: 3D Gaussians for Large Scene Reconstruction

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www.youtube.com 2y ago

Ameca vision and voice cloning [video]

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shi-yan.github.io 2y ago

How to Render a Single Gaussian Splat

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github.com 2y ago

QuipQuick, static blog generator for GitHub pages

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news.ycombinator.com 2y ago

Ask HN: Good platform to sell e-book as a website?

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shi-yan.github.io 2y ago

WebGPU Code Samples

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sliders.baulab.info 2y ago

Concept sliders: LoRA adaptors for precise control in diffusion models

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shariqfarooq123.github.io 2y ago

LooseControl: Lifting ControlNet for Generalized Depth Conditioning

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astra-vision.github.io 2y ago

Material Palette: Extraction of Materials from a Single Image

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reconfusion.github.io 2y ago

ReconFusion: 3D Reconstruction with Diffusion Priors

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maincold2.github.io 2y ago

Compact 3D Gaussian Representation for Radiance Field

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xpandora.github.io 2y ago

Physics-Integrated 3D Gaussians

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news.ycombinator.com 2y ago

Ask HN: How to organize research papers for reading

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www.pcgamer.com 2y ago

Open-Source 4K Dungeon Keeper Remake Spent 15 Years in the Making

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joinfirefish.org 2y ago

Firefish, a federated social network based on ActivityPub

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mixing rendering definitions with content (PDF) is something from the printer era, that is unsuitable for the digital era.

HTML was a digital format, but it wanted to be a generic format for all document types, not just papers, so it contains a lot of extras that a paper format doesn't need.

for research papers, since they share the same structure, we can further separate content from rendering.

for example, if you want to later connect a paper with an AI, do you want to send <div class="abstract"> ... ?

or do some nasty heuristic to extract the abstract? like document. getElementsByClassName("abstract")[0] ?

no

<div class="abstract-container">

<div class="abstract">

<pre><code> abstract text ... </code></pre>

</div>

<div class="author-list">

<ol>

<li>author one</li>

<li>author two</li>

<ol>

</div>

should be just:

[abstract]

abstract text

[authors]

author one | email | affiliation

author two | email | affiliation

I don't think HTML is the right approach. HTML is better than PDF, but it is still a format for displaying/rendering.

the actual paper content format should be separated from its rendering.

i.e. it should contain abstract, sections, equations, figures, citations etc. but it shouldn't have font sizes, layout etc.

the viewer platforms then should be able to style the content differently.