https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2601.23265/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:27:26 GMThttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46943112urn:hackerpapers:submission:2601.23265:46943112Mon, 09 Feb 2026 08:49:07 GMT<p>PaperBanana: Automating Academic Illustration for AI Scientists</p><p></p><p>2 points; 0 discussion replies on HN. <a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2601.23265/">Paper and source history</a>. A submission is not an endorsement.</p>cs.CLhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46912649urn:hackerpapers:submission:2601.23265:46912649Fri, 06 Feb 2026 13:35:14 GMT<p>Show HN: Open-source PaperBanana – academic diagrams from text via agents</p><p>The PaperBanana paper (arXiv:2601.23265) from Google Cloud AI Research and PKU describes a multi-agent framework for generating publication-ready academic illustrations from text. The official code hasn&#x27;t been released yet, so I implemented it from the paper. The pipeline chains 5 agents: a Retriever that selects reference diagrams, a Planner that generates a textual description, a Stylist that refines for visual aesthetics, a Visualizer that renders the image (Gemini for diagrams, Matplotlib for plots), and a Critic that evaluates and triggers iterative refinement. Uses Google Gemini as the…</p><p>1 point; 0 discussion replies on HN. <a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2601.23265/">Paper and source history</a>. A submission is not an endorsement.</p>cs.CLhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46864938urn:hackerpapers:submission:2601.23265:46864938Tue, 03 Feb 2026 01:14:41 GMT<p>PaperBanana: Automating Academic Illustration for AI Scientists</p><p></p><p>1 point; 0 discussion replies on HN. <a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2601.23265/">Paper and source history</a>. A submission is not an endorsement.</p>cs.CL