32 pointsby paraschopra2 hours ago11 comments
  • datguyfromAT42 minutes 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

    • syl5x28 minutes ago
      Pretty much, Ive tried the other examples and none of them work
      • paraschopra10 minutes ago
        Yeah, that specific one doesn't work so well but apart from it, does any other example not work?
  • webcoon2 hours 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.
    • paraschopra12 minutes ago
      Yeah, all of it was done by Opus 4.6
  • chinathrow21 minutes ago
    One-shot - how did you review that the output is accurate?
  • sixtyjan hour 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.

    • paraschopra9 minutes 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.
  • lordgrenvillean hour ago
    And as a bonus, sometimes the information is correct!
    • paraschopra10 minutes ago
      yes, i noticed that occasionally but i'm curious which one did you find is incorrect?
  • coulix2 hours ago
    Looking great, how did you standardized animations / canvas work? Did AI help?
  • yu3zhou42 hours ago
    Please share prompts or md files so we can generate more!
    • paraschopra6 minutes 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

  • maillean hour ago
    Would make one piece on optical interferometry? Inalways struggle explaining this with simple terms when asked to.
  • kelseydhan hour ago
    It's mindblowing while reading this that I had no idea they were LLM generated.
  • energy123an hour ago
    > Asking CC to verify its plan via codex

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

    • paraschopra11 minutes 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)

    • verdverm42 minutes 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

  • verdverman hour ago
    Are they accurate? How do you verify?