Paper Finder: A Free AI-Powered Research Tool and the 7-Second Freeze I Had to Debug
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I built Paper Finder , a free tool that searches arXiv, Semantic Scholar, and Crossref at once, then re-ranks the results by semantic relevance. The ranking uses a small AI model that runs entirely in the browser, so there are no API costs or accounts. But it introduced a nasty bug: typing in the search box could freeze for up to seven seconds. The bug Paper Finder initially sorted results by year. To improve relevance, I added Xenova/all-MiniLM-L6-v2 through transformers.js. It embeds the…
1Key Takeaways
- I built Paper Finder , a free tool that searches arXiv, Semantic Scholar, and Crossref at once, then re-ranks the results by semantic relevance.
- The ranking uses a small AI model that runs entirely in the browser, so there are no API costs or accounts.
- But it introduced a nasty bug: typing in the search box could freeze for up to seven seconds.
- The bug Paper Finder initially sorted results by year.
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Coding AI shifts how fast software ships and how much human review each change needs. DEV — AI reports that i built Paper Finder , a free tool that searches arXiv, Semantic Scholar, and Crossref at once, then re-ranks the results by semantic relevance.
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