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Show HN: CEL by Example

https://celbyexample.com/
8•bufbuild•1h ago•1 comments

Show HN: AsteroidOS 2.0 – Nobody asked, we shipped anyway

https://asteroidos.org/news/2-0-release/index.html
420•moWerk•19h ago•54 comments

Show HN: Codex skills as RE playbooks: unpacking and IOC extraction

https://www.joshuamckiddy.com/blog/ai-skills
2•dozercat•37m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Axiom – A math-native OS where x² is valid syntax (built from scratch)

https://fawazishola.ca/axiom/
2•fawazishola•39m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Clawy, a companion device to track your Claude Code sessions

https://clawy.lol/
3•mrcv•51m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Bubble sort on a Turing machine

https://github.com/purplejacket/bubble_sort_on_tm
11•purplejacket•4d ago•2 comments

Show HN: Owoa – Image watermarking resistant to camera capture

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3•wodoshio•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: Breadboard – A modern HyperCard for building web apps on the canvas

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54•simquat•1d ago•6 comments

Show HN: Nedagram – Transfer Text Over Sound, when internet isn't available

https://nedagram.com/
3•shayanbahal•1h ago•2 comments

Show HN: I wrote a technical history book on Lisp

https://berksoft.ca/gol/
228•cdegroot•23h ago•86 comments

Show HN: Refine.tools – 10 client-side career tools (Next.js, no DB)

https://www.refine.tools/
2•HarakiriGod•1h ago•2 comments

Show HN: SunnyFlight – Find cheap weekend flights to sunny destinations

https://sunnyflight.com/
2•coderai•2h ago•1 comments

Show HN: ReARM – Release-Level Supply Chain Evidence Platform

https://rearmhq.com/
3•taleodor•2h ago•0 comments

Show HN: I Made a Programming Language with Python Syntax, zero-copy and C-Speed

https://github.com/CrimsonDemon567PC/Mantis
4•CrimsonDemon567•5h ago•0 comments

Show HN: Pg-typesafe – Strongly typed queries for PostgreSQL and TypeScript

https://github.com/n-e/pg-typesafe
64•n_e•20h ago•26 comments

Show HN: I taught LLMs to play Magic: The Gathering against each other

https://mage-bench.com/
108•GregorStocks•22h ago•78 comments

Show HN: Free printable micro-habit tracker inspired by Atomic Habits

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8•winmonaye•8h ago•6 comments

Show HN: I built a "Socratic" AI to stop my daughter from copy-pasting homework

https://thinkqurio.com/
18•qurio_dev•1d ago•17 comments

Show HN: Glitchy camera – a circuit-bent camera simulator in the browser

https://glitchycam.com
166•elayabharath•2d ago•22 comments

Show HN: Benchmarking Apple Silicon unified mem for GPU-accelerated SQL analysis

https://github.com/sadopc/unified-db-2
3•sadopc•4h ago•1 comments

Show HN: Jarvish – A New AI Integrated Shell inspired by J.A.R.V.I.S. on marvel

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2•tominaga-h•4h ago•0 comments

Show HN: Box of Rain - Auto-Layouted ASCII Diagrams

https://github.com/switz/box-of-rain
22•switz•3d ago•13 comments

Show HN: 6cy – Experimental streaming archive format with per-block codecs

https://github.com/byte271/6cy
33•yihac1•22h ago•8 comments

Show HN: Writing a C++20M:N Scheduler from Scratch (EBR, Work-Stealing)

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15•lixiasky•16h ago•19 comments

Show HN: Jemini – Gemini for the Epstein Files

https://jmail.world/jemini
473•dvrp•2d ago•97 comments

Show HN: Bashtorio – Factorio-Like in the Browser Backed by a Linux VM

https://bashtorio.xyz/
10•elijahcham•15h ago•0 comments

Show HN: Scanned 1927-1945 Daily USFS Work Diary

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115•dogline•1d ago•27 comments

Show HN: Continue – Source-controlled AI checks, enforceable in CI

https://docs.continue.dev
44•sestinj•22h ago•7 comments

Show HN: Wildex – Pokémon Go for real wildlife

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wildex-identify-plants-animals/id6748092158
100•AnujNayyar•1d ago•71 comments

Show HN: Cycast – High-performance radio streaming server written in Python

https://github.com/LukeB42/Cycast
21•LukeB42•23h ago•2 comments
Open in hackernews

Show HN: Beautiful interactive explainers generated with Claude Code

https://paraschopra.github.io/explainers/
37•paraschopra•8h ago
Hello HN,

Recently an amazingly beautiful explainer was shared on HN: https://explainers.blog/posts/why-is-the-sky-blue/

I loved it so much that I wished more topics were explained that way. So, I decided to stress-test today's frontier models (Opus 4.6 in Claude Code) to generate similar explainer on any given topic WITH (almost) one shot and minimal nudging.

I'm launching with four topics: Fourier transformation, scaling laws in bio, cellular automata and LLMs.

I would let you be the judge, but I'm quite liking them.

Some things I learned:

- Prompting CC to test what it builds using headless chromium is essential - There are subtle bugs in explanations (like in one animation human lifespan is 40 years) - Asking CC to verify its plan via codex works really well

I do want to reiterate that the pages generated were mostly one-shot, which amazed me given how detailed the pages + animations are.

Comments

coulix•7h ago
Looking great, how did you standardized animations / canvas work? Did AI help?
paraschopra•6h ago
I pointed Claude Code towards https://explainers.blog/posts/why-is-the-sky-blue/ , take screenshots and build something like it on the topic provided.
yu3zhou4•7h ago
Please share prompts or md files so we can generate more!
paraschopra•6h ago
Current prompt is like this:

I want to build a self-contained html/js/css file explainer page as close as possible to this explainer: https://explainers.blog/posts/why-is-the-sky-blue/

What I want you to do is this: - Install playwright and chromium headless to take screenshots of https://explainers.blog/posts/why-is-the-sky-blue/ and interact with the page to deeply understand its style, aesthetics, tone, interactivity, visuals, fonts, etc. - Make comprehensive notes of what you observe so you can implement EXACTLY that when building your explainer - Then on the topic provided below plan to build an explainer with similar length, quality, interactivity, writing style, fun, informative as the article given - produce animations in svg (or otherwise) and interactions as necessary. Similar colour scheme but fun/vibrant/happy. Be very very creative. Act like an expert UI/UX designer who can build stunning explainers. Target it for intelligent hacker-news reader. - Get your plan verified by codex - Produce page one small change at a time. Don't output big chunks in one go. But pay extra attention to number of sections and length of the explained. I want it to be as comprehensive as possible (don't skimp on length) - Keep testing what you produce via playwright on chromium headless.

After you’re finished with index.html, can you check via chromium that all animations, diagrams and interactions that they match with their captions and are visually ok (not too small, large, overlapping, etc.). Sometimes there are factual errors in what the caption or text says and what the diagram suggests.

Topic: diffusion models from first principles

yu3zhou4•3h ago
Thank you very much!
webcoon•7h ago
Are these animated visualizations in the sky-explainer all original? If so, I am blown away by the visual consistency and meaningfulness of these throughout the article.
paraschopra•6h ago
Yeah, all of it was done by Opus 4.6
sixtyj•7h ago
There was a discussion yesterday that LLM generated “Show HN” posts should be moved to another thread :)

Nevertheless, it looks nice but I can’t be sure that texts are correct. Did OP check everything because she/he knows deeply the topic?

Citations give credits to text but can we be sure about them if they are automatically generated? Live links to arXiv or ResearchGate would be much better.

Graphics and visualisations look great, well done.

paraschopra•6h ago
I verified the Fourier one and the LLM one. The scaling law one is likely okay too as I long back read the book.
verdverm•7h ago
Are they accurate? How do you verify?
energy123•7h ago
> Asking CC to verify its plan via codex

How does this work? You tell it to call `codex exec`?

verdverm•6h ago
In something like ADK, you can have multiple agents and subagents, each can have it's own prompt and model assigned, and they can just do their thing as normal.

One can always give it the CLI and keys to any service, chat bot or otherwise

paraschopra•6h ago
Yes, the skill is something like the following:

# Codex Verification Skill

Use OpenAI Codex as an independent reviewer via `codex exec`.

## How to Call Codex

*Standard pattern with answer extraction:* ```bash CODEX_OUTPUT=$(timeout 120 codex exec '<your prompt here>. Put your complete analysis inside <answer></answer> tags.' 2>/dev/null)

maille•7h ago
Would make one piece on optical interferometry? Inalways struggle explaining this with simple terms when asked to.
paraschopra•3h ago
It generated this: https://paraschopra.github.io/explainers/optical-interferome...

I haven't checked it, but I'm curious about your feedback.

kelseydh•7h ago
It's mindblowing while reading this that I had no idea they were LLM generated.
lordgrenville•6h ago
And as a bonus, sometimes the information is correct!
paraschopra•6h ago
yes, i noticed that occasionally but i'm curious which one did you find is incorrect?
lordgrenville•5h ago
Oh this was just snark.
datguyfromAT•6h ago
Kinda funny, because on the surface it looks really pretty, but if you dig a little deeper the flaws emerge. For example in the llm explainer section 3: king - man + woman = queen. But if I input queen - woman + man = ???

I guess that is what "one shot" ai generated code gets without any human or even ai review

syl5x•6h ago
Pretty much, Ive tried the other examples and none of them work
paraschopra•6h ago
Yeah, that specific one doesn't work so well but apart from it, does any other example not work?
kelseydh•4h ago
The Fourier transform audio examples fooled me. The example sounds and slider for them appeared consistent as far as I could tell... but then again I don't know much about Fourier transforms.

Maybe I'm out of the loop but have to say this is the first time I have seen an LLM generate a webpage with working audio widgets.

paraschopra•4h ago
yep, i was pretty surprised by audio widgets too.
chinathrow•6h ago
One-shot - how did you review that the output is accurate?
paraschopra•6h ago
I read all of the outputs.
Otterly99•5h ago
The Fourier transform one is really cool. I loved the 5x oscilloscopes builder and the "draw your own wave" widget. Also, seeing the correlation coefficients of the 3Hz + 7Hz wave was really neat.