Introducing Intersect: an Interest Intersection Engine for Research Discovery
Every day, interesting research appears on arXiv. Every day, someone posts a fascinating paper on Hacker News, Lobste.rs, or GitHub. The problem isn’t scarcity — it’s signal-to-noise. The papers that would genuinely excite you are out there, but they’re buried in a firehose of incremental work.
I built Intersect to solve this for myself, and I’m making it available as a free tool for the HN community.
How it works
Intersect takes a social profile URL (HN, Lobste.rs, GitHub, GitLab, Codeberg, or SourceForge) and does three things: