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anmorgan · 1785940338 · focus · HN ↗

Unfortunately many links are 404.

Would have liked to have seen them.

vivzkestrel · 1785940431 · focus · HN ↗
i tested each and every single one before posting, i only posted the working ones
mycall · 1785985462 · focus · HN ↗
Is there an easy way to rewrite them to be archive.org links?

SuperLede · 1785943738 · focus · HN ↗

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stillatit · 1785945628 · focus · HN ↗

Clickable:

- Animated explanation of how transformers work <a href="https://poloclub.github.io/transformer-explainer/" rel="nofollow">https://poloclub.github.io/transformer-explainer/

- Visual intro to K-means clustering algorithm <a href="https://k-means-explorable.vercel.app/" rel="nofollow">https://k-means-explorable.vercel.app/

- Animated 3D intro to vision LLMs <a href="https://blog.mdturp.ch/posts/2024-04-05-visual_guide_to_vision_transformer.html" rel="nofollow">https://blog.mdturp.ch/posts/2024-04-05-visual_guide_to_visi...

- Animated intro to machine learning <a href="https://r2d3.us/visual-intro-to-machine-learning-part-1/" rel="nofollow">https://r2d3.us/visual-intro-to-machine-learning-part-1/

- Animated intro to probability in math <a href="https://seeing-theory.brown.edu/basic-probability/index.html" rel="nofollow">https://seeing-theory.brown.edu/basic-probability/index.html

- Building a 3D world from scratch in step by step animated manner <a href="https://aibodh.com/posts/bevy-tutorial-build-your-first-3d-editor-in-rust/" rel="nofollow">https://aibodh.com/posts/bevy-tutorial-build-your-first-3d-e...

- Visualize algorithms <a href="https://algorithm-visualizer.org/" rel="nofollow">https://algorithm-visualizer.org/

- Animated step by step sequence of how a request goes from your browser to the server <a href="https://200ms.thenodebook.com/#act-1-the-click" rel="nofollow">https://200ms.thenodebook.com/#act-1-the-click

- Visual intro to the inner workings of a combustion engine <a href="https://ciechanow.ski/internal-combustion-engine/" rel="nofollow">https://ciechanow.ski/internal-combustion-engine/

- 3D real time robotics code simulator <a href="https://bittlex-sim.petoi.com/" rel="nofollow">https://bittlex-sim.petoi.com/

- Animated explainer: Elliptic curve cryptography <a href="https://growingswe.com/blog/elliptic-curve-cryptography" rel="nofollow">https://growingswe.com/blog/elliptic-curve-cryptography

- Rate limiting algorithms visualized <a href="https://smudge.ai/blog/ratelimit-algorithms" rel="nofollow">https://smudge.ai/blog/ratelimit-algorithms

- Visual intro to the graphics pipeline! <a href="https://fremaconsulting.ch/blog/vulkan" rel="nofollow">https://fremaconsulting.ch/blog/vulkan

- Animated explanation of how to build ReactJS from scratch! <a href="https://pomb.us/build-your-own-react/" rel="nofollow">https://pomb.us/build-your-own-react/

- Mini game: How to build an entire CPU starting from a basic gate <a href="https://select.supply/game/chipbuilder" rel="nofollow">https://select.supply/game/chipbuilder

- Assemble a neural network from scratch <a href="https://graphgame.sabrina.dev/" rel="nofollow">https://graphgame.sabrina.dev/

- 3D visualization: how gravity works <a href="https://qunabu.github.io/Gravity/#what-is-gravity" rel="nofollow">https://qunabu.github.io/Gravity/#what-is-gravity

- Mini game: how css grid works <a href="https://cssgridgarden.com/" rel="nofollow">https://cssgridgarden.com/

- Animated math book for linear algebra, vectors etc <a href="https://immersivemath.com/ila/index.html" rel="nofollow">https://immersivemath.com/ila/index.html

- Animated explainer: How FAISS vector search works <a href="https://fremaconsulting.ch/blog/faiss" rel="nofollow">https://fremaconsulting.ch/blog/faiss

- 3D animation of how to build a health wearable from scratch <a href="https://www.lumafield.com/scan-of-the-month/health-wearables" rel="nofollow">https://www.lumafield.com/scan-of-the-month/health-wearables

- 3D animation of how semiconductor manufacturing works <a href="https://ig.ft.com/microchips/" rel="nofollow">https://ig.ft.com/microchips/

- Mini game: how git works <a href="https://learngitbranching.js.org/" rel="nofollow">https://learngitbranching.js.org/

- Mini game: SQL from scratch <a href="https://sqlpd.com/" rel="nofollow">https://sqlpd.com/

- Another mini game: SQL <a href="https://lost-at-sql.therobinlord.com/" rel="nofollow">https://lost-at-sql.therobinlord.com/

- Animated explainers showing how colors, screens, graphics, rendering, shaders, compilers, interpreters work <a href="https://www.makingsoftware.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.makingsoftware.com/

- Animated explainer shows how networking 7 layer stack works inside out <a href="https://fazamhd.com/mental-models/networking/" rel="nofollow">https://fazamhd.com/mental-models/networking/

- Animated explainers for linear & logistic regression, neural networks, machine learning <a href="https://mlu-explain.github.io/" rel="nofollow">https://mlu-explain.github.io/

- 3D explanation of collision detection, shaders, rendering, culling and gamedev related stuff <a href="https://krupitskas.com/posts/modern_culling_techniques/" rel="nofollow">https://krupitskas.com/posts/modern_culling_techniques/

- 3D animation and explanation of every exercise on the body <a href="https://musclewiki.com/" rel="nofollow">https://musclewiki.com/

- Mini game: build an nvidia gpu from scratch <a href="https://jaso1024.com/mvidia/" rel="nofollow">https://jaso1024.com/mvidia/

- Animated explanation of forward & back propagation of neural networks <a href="https://aegeorge42.github.io/" rel="nofollow">https://aegeorge42.github.io/

siri- · 1785956185 · focus · HN ↗
doing god's work
vivzkestrel · 1785986112 · focus · HN ↗
- very strange indeed, i think every link worked for me when i opened it but it is possible because i have an autoridrect to archive sites when a link does not work extension
- ah crap that must be it
vivzkestrel · 1785986151 · focus · HN ↗
- also here is one more: 3D neural network visualization <a href="https://visualrambling.space/neural-network/" rel="nofollow">https://visualrambling.space/neural-network/

big_toast · 1785945782 · focus · HN ↗

A lot of these visual tutorials/explainers remind me there's some disconnect between their creation and compensation.

We never really get whole curriculums of them. There's no equivalent to the games/book industry level production. Maybe some medical things. There were educational games for a while but those seem less common..

A whole industry around podcasts and youtube has spawned in a two decades. The scale seems smaller than it ought to be.

vivzkestrel · 1785952600 · focus · HN ↗
i am more surprised people havent slopcoded threejs to create such visuals for many other concepts and ideas
1. big_toast · 1785955849 · focus · HN ↗
  Ya. I'm seeing some, and a few of them are very promising. The volume of good visualizations will definitely grow.
  But that growth seems different from the type of growth that happens in product-market-fit cases. Just makes me wonder what's the missing reagent.

brudgers · 1785955421 · focus · HN ↗

My S++ tier:

<a href="https://sive.rs/below-average" rel="nofollow">https://sive.rs/below-average

vivzkestrel · 1786000417 · focus · HN ↗
- forget below average
- i ask stupid questions right here on HN all the time
- you would literally see it in my history
- all sorts of questions like why cant we have a language that looks like typed python but runs much faster than c++, rust and zig
- why cant we have 1 sextillion transistors inside a single chip
- why cant we use nuclear propulsion to reach 99% the speed of light for interstellar travel and what are the challenges here
- every single time i literally prefix it like "stupid question: why cant we do xyz"
1. ceasesurthinko · 1786016394 · focus · HN ↗
  you call them stupid questions, but i say these are quite good, trivial-seeming but actually non-trivial questions that lead you to a deeper understanding.

Jahnavi_Aleti · 1786037709 · focus · HN ↗

As someone who is starting to get to know HN, thank you for the list, looks interesting.

cryptolobster · 1786043796 · focus · HN ↗

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