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How do you find out about new papers? Do you curate an academic Twitter feed? Do you set up alerts on Google Scholar for specific keywords? Do you keep an eye on the #papers channel in each of the Slacks/Discords you frequent? Do you ask an LLM for literature recommendations? I don’t systematically do any of those things. Instead, I read arXiv. More specifically, for around a year, I’ve started most days by reading all of the new titles posted to arXiv under a broad set of computer science and machine learning categories. How crazy is that? In principle, subscribing to all arXiv preprints doesn’t seem crazy at all. ArXiv was literally founded around the idea of widely sharing new preprints by email. Today, one of arXiv’s core features remains daily email notifications about new papers posted in each category. (When you submit a paper, you get a preview of how your paper will appear in the listings, namely a distinctively retro fixed-width plain-text rendering of your title and abstract

~Subscribing to arXiv The academic feed for completionists Monday, June 29th, 2026 How do you find out about new papers? Do you curate an academic Twitter feed? Do you set up alerts on Google Scholar for specific keywords? Do you keep an eye on the #papers channel in each of the Slacks/Discords you frequent? Do you ask an LLM for literature recommendations? I don’t systematically do any of those things. Instead, I read arXiv. More specifically, for around a year, I’ve started most days by reading all of the new titles posted to arXiv under a broad set of computer science and machine…

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