Putting papers on GitHub instead of arXiv

Publishing papers beside code in a repo gives researchers one immediate link and challenges arXiv’s value as the default preprint gatekeeper

Found myself posting papers to GitHub instead of arXiv lately. No gatekeeping, is in the same repo as the code, one link for everything, and gets uploaded immediately. Makes you wonder what arXiv's actual value is.
Ranked #24 on backlist 2026-05-14 (14 May 2026 UTC) · by (Dimitris Papailiopoulos) ·

How it ranks: Backlist reads my Twitter/X timeline, scores every tweet for substance with an LLM rubric (not engagement), and publishes the daily top picks with a one-line takeaway. Curated by Surya Dantuluri.