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

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

- 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!

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