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Read HN twice a day for the last decade. Here's my list of S-Tier HN links

137 points by vivzkestrel 3mo ago

- Everyday I read 2 pages of HN in the morning and 2 in the evening for years now - Of late, I noticed that most of the stuff on the 1st 2 pages is AI this, AI that, LLM this, LLM that, model here, model there - Today I am going to attempt to break that trend by sharing the greatest resources on HN from my collection of 50000+ bookmarks over the last decade - I have a process on my end for bookmarking - The most visual explainers get S-Tier ranking - Good info from reputed sources gets an A, non reputed gets B - Opinion blogs are at the bottom of the barrel and maybe ranked C, D, E and even F depending on quality - Here's my S-Tier list - Animated explanation of how transformers work https://poloclub.github.io/transformer-explainer/ - Visual intro to K-means clustering algorithm https://k-means-explorable.vercel.app/ - Animated 3D intro to vision LLMs https://blog.mdturp.ch/posts/2024-04-05-visual_guide_to_vision_transformer.html - Animated intro to machine learning https://r2d3.us/visual-intro-to-machine-learning-part-1/ - Animated intro to probability in math https://seeing-theory.brown.edu/basic-probability/index.html - Building a 3D world from scratch in step by step animated manner https://aibodh.com/posts/bevy-tutorial-build-your-first-3d-editor-in-rust/ - Visualize algorithms https://algorithm-visualizer.org/ - Animated step by step sequence of how a request goes from your browser to the server https://200ms.thenodebook.com/#act-1-the-click - Visual intro to the inner workings of a combustion engine https://ciechanow.ski/internal-combustion-engine/ - 3D real time robotics code simulator https://bittlex-sim.petoi.com/ - Animated explainer: Elliptic curve cryptography https://growingswe.com/blog/elliptic-curve-cryptography - Rate limiting algorithms visualized https://smudge.ai/blog/ratelimit-algorithms - Visual intro to the graphics pipeline! https://fremaconsulting.ch/blog/vulkan - Animated explanation of how to build ReactJS from scratch! https://pomb.us/build-your-own-react/ - Mini game: How to build an entire CPU starting from a basic gate https://select.supply/game/chipbuilder - Assemble a neural network from scratch https://graphgame.sabrina.dev/ - 3D visualization: how gravity works https://qunabu.github.io/Gravity/#what-is-gravity - Mini game: how css grid works https://cssgridgarden.com/ - Animated math book for linear algebra, vectors etc https://immersivemath.com/ila/index.html - Animated explainer: How FAISS vector search works https://fremaconsulting.ch/blog/faiss - 3D animation of how to build a health wearable from scratch https://www.lumafield.com/scan-of-the-month/health-wearables - 3D animation of how semiconductor manufacturing works https://ig.ft.com/microchips/ - Mini game: how git works https://learngitbranching.js.org/ - Mini game: SQL from scratch https://sqlpd.com/ - Another mini game: SQL https://lost-at-sql.therobinlord.com/ - Animated explainers showing how colors, screens, graphics, rendering, shaders, compilers, interpreters work https://www.makingsoftware.com/ - Animated explainer shows how networking 7 layer stack works inside out https://fazamhd.com/mental-models/networking/ - Animated explainers for linear & logistic regression, neural networks, machine learning https://mlu-explain.github.io/ - 3D explanation of collision detection, shaders, rendering, culling and gamedev related stuff https://krupitskas.com/posts/modern_culling_techniques/ - 3D animation and explanation of every exercise on the body https://musclewiki.com/ - Mini game: build an nvidia gpu from scratch https://jaso1024.com/mvidia/ - Animated explanation of forward & back propagation of neural networks https://aegeorge42.github.io/ - There are many many many more, I am getting a little tired of typing for today - Anyways enough of those AI opinion posts flooding the front page, take that HN!

sputnicyoji 2mo ago
Great list, thank you for sharing.
anmorgan 3mo ago
Unfortunately many links are 404. Would have liked to have seen them.
- mycall 3mo ago
  Is there an easy way to rewrite them to be archive.org links?
  - flawn 2mo ago
    archive.ph/ in front of it.
- vivzkestrel 3mo ago
  i tested each and every single one before posting, i only posted the working ones
SuperLede 3mo ago
[flagged]
stillatit 3mo ago
Clickable: - Animated explanation of how transformers work https://poloclub.github.io/transformer-explainer/ https://poloclub.github.io/transformer-explainer/ - Visual intro to K-means clustering algorithm https://k-means-explorable.vercel.app/ https://k-means-explorable.vercel.app/ - Animated 3D intro to vision LLMs https://blog.mdturp.ch/posts/2024-04-05-visual_guide_to_vision_transformer.html https://blog.mdturp.ch/posts/2024-04-05-visual_guide_to_visi... - Animated intro to machine learning https://r2d3.us/visual-intro-to-machine-learning-part-1/ https://r2d3.us/visual-intro-to-machine-learning-part-1/ - Animated intro to probability in math https://seeing-theory.brown.edu/basic-probability/index.html https://seeing-theory.brown.edu/basic-probability/index.html - Building a 3D world from scratch in step by step animated manner https://aibodh.com/posts/bevy-tutorial-build-your-first-3d-editor-in-rust/ https://aibodh.com/posts/bevy-tutorial-build-your-first-3d-e... - Visualize algorithms https://algorithm-visualizer.org/ https://algorithm-visualizer.org/ - Animated step by step sequence of how a request goes from your browser to the server https://200ms.thenodebook.com/#act-1-the-click https://200ms.thenodebook.com/#act-1-the-click - Visual intro to the inner workings of a combustion engine https://ciechanow.ski/internal-combustion-engine/ https://ciechanow.ski/internal-combustion-engine/ - 3D real time robotics code simulator https://bittlex-sim.petoi.com/ https://bittlex-sim.petoi.com/ - Animated explainer: Elliptic curve cryptography https://growingswe.com/blog/elliptic-curve-cryptography https://growingswe.com/blog/elliptic-curve-cryptography - Rate limiting algorithms visualized https://smudge.ai/blog/ratelimit-algorithms https://smudge.ai/blog/ratelimit-algorithms - Visual intro to the graphics pipeline! https://fremaconsulting.ch/blog/vulkan https://fremaconsulting.ch/blog/vulkan - Animated explanation of how to build ReactJS from scratch! https://pomb.us/build-your-own-react/ https://pomb.us/build-your-own-react/ - Mini game: How to build an entire CPU starting from a basic gate https://select.supply/game/chipbuilder https://select.supply/game/chipbuilder - Assemble a neural network from scratch https://graphgame.sabrina.dev/ https://graphgame.sabrina.dev/ - 3D visualization: how gravity works https://qunabu.github.io/Gravity/#what-is-gravity https://qunabu.github.io/Gravity/#what-is-gravity - Mini game: how css grid works https://cssgridgarden.com/ https://cssgridgarden.com/ - Animated math book for linear algebra, vectors etc https://immersivemath.com/ila/index.html https://immersivemath.com/ila/index.html - Animated explainer: How FAISS vector search works https://fremaconsulting.ch/blog/faiss https://fremaconsulting.ch/blog/faiss - 3D animation of how to build a health wearable from scratch https://www.lumafield.com/scan-of-the-month/health-wearables https://www.lumafield.com/scan-of-the-month/health-wearables - 3D animation of how semiconductor manufacturing works https://ig.ft.com/microchips/ https://ig.ft.com/microchips/ - Mini game: how git works https://learngitbranching.js.org/ https://learngitbranching.js.org/ - Mini game: SQL from scratch https://sqlpd.com/ https://sqlpd.com/ - Another mini game: SQL https://lost-at-sql.therobinlord.com/ https://lost-at-sql.therobinlord.com/ - Animated explainers showing how colors, screens, graphics, rendering, shaders, compilers, interpreters work https://www.makingsoftware.com/ https://www.makingsoftware.com/ - Animated explainer shows how networking 7 layer stack works inside out https://fazamhd.com/mental-models/networking/ https://fazamhd.com/mental-models/networking/ - Animated explainers for linear & logistic regression, neural networks, machine learning https://mlu-explain.github.io/ https://mlu-explain.github.io/ - 3D explanation of collision detection, shaders, rendering, culling and gamedev related stuff https://krupitskas.com/posts/modern_culling_techniques/ https://krupitskas.com/posts/modern_culling_techniques/ - 3D animation and explanation of every exercise on the body https://musclewiki.com/ https://musclewiki.com/ - Mini game: build an nvidia gpu from scratch https://jaso1024.com/mvidia/ https://jaso1024.com/mvidia/ - Animated explanation of forward & back propagation of neural networks https://aegeorge42.github.io/ https://aegeorge42.github.io/

137 points by vivzkestrel 3mo ago

sputnicyoji 2mo ago

Great list, thank you for sharing.

anmorgan 3mo ago

Unfortunately many links are 404. Would have liked to have seen them.

mycall 3mo ago
Is there an easy way to rewrite them to be archive.org links?
- flawn 2mo ago
  archive.ph/ in front of it.
vivzkestrel 3mo ago
i tested each and every single one before posting, i only posted the working ones

SuperLede 3mo ago

[flagged]

stillatit 3mo ago

Clickable: - Animated explanation of how transformers work https://poloclub.github.io/transformer-explainer/ https://poloclub.github.io/transformer-explainer/ - Visual intro to K-means clustering algorithm https://k-means-explorable.vercel.app/ https://k-means-explorable.vercel.app/ - Animated 3D intro to vision LLMs https://blog.mdturp.ch/posts/2024-04-05-visual_guide_to_vision_transformer.html https://blog.mdturp.ch/posts/2024-04-05-visual_guide_to_visi... - Animated intro to machine learning https://r2d3.us/visual-intro-to-machine-learning-part-1/ https://r2d3.us/visual-intro-to-machine-learning-part-1/ - Animated intro to probability in math https://seeing-theory.brown.edu/basic-probability/index.html https://seeing-theory.brown.edu/basic-probability/index.html - Building a 3D world from scratch in step by step animated manner https://aibodh.com/posts/bevy-tutorial-build-your-first-3d-editor-in-rust/ https://aibodh.com/posts/bevy-tutorial-build-your-first-3d-e... - Visualize algorithms https://algorithm-visualizer.org/ https://algorithm-visualizer.org/ - Animated step by step sequence of how a request goes from your browser to the server https://200ms.thenodebook.com/#act-1-the-click https://200ms.thenodebook.com/#act-1-the-click - Visual intro to the inner workings of a combustion engine https://ciechanow.ski/internal-combustion-engine/ https://ciechanow.ski/internal-combustion-engine/ - 3D real time robotics code simulator https://bittlex-sim.petoi.com/ https://bittlex-sim.petoi.com/ - Animated explainer: Elliptic curve cryptography https://growingswe.com/blog/elliptic-curve-cryptography https://growingswe.com/blog/elliptic-curve-cryptography - Rate limiting algorithms visualized https://smudge.ai/blog/ratelimit-algorithms https://smudge.ai/blog/ratelimit-algorithms - Visual intro to the graphics pipeline! https://fremaconsulting.ch/blog/vulkan https://fremaconsulting.ch/blog/vulkan - Animated explanation of how to build ReactJS from scratch! https://pomb.us/build-your-own-react/ https://pomb.us/build-your-own-react/ - Mini game: How to build an entire CPU starting from a basic gate https://select.supply/game/chipbuilder https://select.supply/game/chipbuilder - Assemble a neural network from scratch https://graphgame.sabrina.dev/ https://graphgame.sabrina.dev/ - 3D visualization: how gravity works https://qunabu.github.io/Gravity/#what-is-gravity https://qunabu.github.io/Gravity/#what-is-gravity - Mini game: how css grid works https://cssgridgarden.com/ https://cssgridgarden.com/ - Animated math book for linear algebra, vectors etc https://immersivemath.com/ila/index.html https://immersivemath.com/ila/index.html - Animated explainer: How FAISS vector search works https://fremaconsulting.ch/blog/faiss https://fremaconsulting.ch/blog/faiss - 3D animation of how to build a health wearable from scratch https://www.lumafield.com/scan-of-the-month/health-wearables https://www.lumafield.com/scan-of-the-month/health-wearables - 3D animation of how semiconductor manufacturing works https://ig.ft.com/microchips/ https://ig.ft.com/microchips/ - Mini game: how git works https://learngitbranching.js.org/ https://learngitbranching.js.org/ - Mini game: SQL from scratch https://sqlpd.com/ https://sqlpd.com/ - Another mini game: SQL https://lost-at-sql.therobinlord.com/ https://lost-at-sql.therobinlord.com/ - Animated explainers showing how colors, screens, graphics, rendering, shaders, compilers, interpreters work https://www.makingsoftware.com/ https://www.makingsoftware.com/ - Animated explainer shows how networking 7 layer stack works inside out https://fazamhd.com/mental-models/networking/ https://fazamhd.com/mental-models/networking/ - Animated explainers for linear & logistic regression, neural networks, machine learning https://mlu-explain.github.io/ https://mlu-explain.github.io/ - 3D explanation of collision detection, shaders, rendering, culling and gamedev related stuff https://krupitskas.com/posts/modern_culling_techniques/ https://krupitskas.com/posts/modern_culling_techniques/ - 3D animation and explanation of every exercise on the body https://musclewiki.com/ https://musclewiki.com/ - Mini game: build an nvidia gpu from scratch https://jaso1024.com/mvidia/ https://jaso1024.com/mvidia/ - Animated explanation of forward & back propagation of neural networks https://aegeorge42.github.io/ https://aegeorge42.github.io/