On Thursday, July 17, 2025, Oliver Hunt wrote:

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> Apologies - I think I read “paper” as “page” (as in website), so it sounds
> like what you’re doing is what I agreed earlier is more reasonable.
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Version 1 of Paper Kernel C++ will be entirely offline. It won't connect to
the internet for any reason. I'm not even giving it the ability to download
the latest papers, nor to check for a software update.

I've downloaded 9000 or so papers and put them in a Tar archive, and that
archive is embedded in a GUI program that can display the papers on screen
as well as search through them.

Perhaps a future version of Paper Kernel C++ will allow the downloading of
new papers, or even allow AI to answer questions about the papers, but we
can argue about these things later when there's a possibility of them
becoming a reality. Right now they're just hypotheticals. Be assured though
that I will take people's feelings and opinions into account when making
future decisions on these things.

For now, Version 1 will be a bog standard offline program that uses WebView
to display papers and uses Xapian to search through papers (which by the
way is freakishly fast). Released free-of-charge and open-source.