Hacker News with Generative AI: Visualizations

What 200 Calories of Various Foods Looks Like (2013) (twistedsifter.com)
We all know some foods have a much higher Calorie content than others, but how many of us know what that difference actually looks like?

Food, Nutrition, Visualizations, Health

34 points by Tomte 42 days ago | 8 comments

I Heart Cardioids (divisbyzero.com)
Roll a circle around another circle of the same radius. A marked point on the first circle traces a curve called a cardioid. (In the figure below we rolled the orange circle around the red circle to draw the green cardioid.) This beautiful heart-shaped curve shows up in some of the most unexpected places. Grab a cup of coffee and we’ll show you some.

Mathematics, Geometry, Visualizations, Coffee

6 points by thunderbong 43 days ago | 0 comments

The Terror of War - An Associated Press Visual Analysis (apnews.com)
The Associated Press is an independent global news organization dedicated to factual reporting.

Visualizations, News, War, Journalism

6 points by maurits 51 days ago | 0 comments

Backstory to the Survivorship Bias Plane (yuxi-liu-wired.github.io)
I discover the exact backstory to that picture of an airplane with red dots on top of it.

Statistics, Visualizations, Data Analysis, History

4 points by YuxiLiuWired 55 days ago | 0 comments

Show HN: Mermaid Open Editor 2.0 (mermaidchart.com)

Software, Open Source, Visualizations, Show HN

6 points by msfi 63 days ago | 1 comments

Show HN: JavaScript Flowchart Generator (curranjrobertson.github.io)
Turn your JavaScript code into clear flowcharts instantly.

JavaScript, Programming, Tools, Visualizations

3 points by cad-vc 86 days ago | 0 comments

Mandelbrot Set Explorer (mandelbrot.site)

Mathematics, Fractals, Software, Visualizations

86 points by rgrieselhuber 104 days ago | 43 comments

Watch R1 "think" with animated chains of thought (github.com/dhealy05)

Artificial Intelligence, Programming, Visualizations

267 points by higuidebot 130 days ago | 75 comments

My Life in Weeks (ginatrapani.org)
👋 Hi, I’m Gina. This is a map of my life, where each week I’ve been alive is a little box. Tap a box to see what I was doing where that week.

Life Mapping, Personal Projects, Visualizations

984 points by bookofjoe 132 days ago | 262 comments

Show HN: Haystack Code Reviewer – Perform code reviews on a canvas (haystackeditor.com)
Haystack Code Reviewer breaks down a pull request into manageable chunks and visualizes related changes on an interactive canvas

Code Review, Software Development, Tools, Visualizations

55 points by akshaysg 143 days ago | 22 comments

Orbit Spirograph (2019) (redblobgames.com)
Inspired by John Carlos Baez’s post about the Pentagram of Venus[1]. This is the position of Venus relative to the Earth. I got distracted by fun spirograph style images.

Visualizations, Math, Astronomy

75 points by hwayne 155 days ago | 7 comments

Show HN: GUI for editing Mermaid class diagrams (mermaidchart.com)
Mermaid charts are widely used for their ability to represent complex diagrams quickly, and now, thanks to a new update, editing Mermaid Class Diagrams has become even easier and more intuitive.

Software, Visualizations, Diagrams, Mermaid, User Interfaces

230 points by knsv 161 days ago | 59 comments

A visual demo of Ruby's lazy enumerator (joyofrails.com)
In this article, we'll explore a simple visual trick to help understand how lazy enumeration works in Ruby.

Ruby, Programming, Visualizations, Lazy Evaluation

30 points by thunderbong 169 days ago | 3 comments

Visualizing Joyce's Ulysses: "Sirens" as a Graphic Score (emilyfuhrman.co)
In reference to schemas for Ulysses, Joyce describes the compositional technique behind the “Sirens” episode as a “fugue with all musical notations,”[1] and as including the “eight regular parts of a fuga per canonem.”[2] While the structure of the episode remains unresolved, this project is an attempt to track and classify all of the sounds that comprise it, and depict them as a graphic score.

Literature, Music, Visualizations

9 points by thcipriani 169 days ago | 0 comments

Relax while watching bouncing particles making connections when they get closer (tiki.li)
Particles - Code More samples

Visualizations, Physics, Programming, Creative Projects

225 points by tikili 172 days ago | 79 comments

Mandelbrot deep zoom theory and practice (2021) (mathr.co.uk)
The complex beauty of the world's most famous fractal, the Mandelbrot set, emerges from the repeated iteration of a simple formula:

Mathematics, Fractals, Theory, Visualizations

183 points by fanf2 175 days ago | 60 comments

Show HN: Customizable, Printable Visual progress tracker based on Jerry Seinfeld (dontbreakthecha.in)
About“After a few days you’ll have a chain...Your only job is to not break the chain.“– Jerry Seinfeld

Productivity, Habit Tracking, Visualizations, Software

6 points by bilalasd 178 days ago | 0 comments

T * sin (t)' ≈ Ornamented Christmas Tree (2013) (wolfram.com)

Mathematics, Art, Christmas, Visualizations

401 points by ryeguy_24 185 days ago | 44 comments

A visual proof that a^2 – b^2 = (a + b)(a – b) (futilitycloset.com)
A visual proof that a2 – b2 = (a + b)(a – b).

Mathematics, Proofs, Visualizations

731 points by beardyw 194 days ago | 192 comments

Timemap.org – Interactive Map of History (oldmapsonline.org)

History, Maps, Interactive, Visualizations

1306 points by agilek 197 days ago | 180 comments

Show HN: Visualizing website carbon footprints using steam and robotics [video] (vimeo.com)
To continue, please confirm that you're a human (and not a spambot).

Web Development, Sustainability, Visualizations, Robotics

37 points by G_S 207 days ago | 8 comments

Interactive Visual Sorting (mszula.github.io)

Interactive, Visualizations, Sorting, Data Structures

168 points by jason1610 221 days ago | 31 comments

D2: Declarative Diagramming – A modern language that turns text to diagrams (d2lang.com)
A modern language that turns text to diagrams

Programming Languages, Software, Design, Visualizations, Diagrams

50 points by thunderbong 236 days ago | 7 comments

Visualizing the Nucleus [video] (youtube.com)

Visualizations, Biology, Science

26 points by sandebert 246 days ago | 3 comments

An n-ball Between n-balls (arnaldur.be)
There is a geometric thought experiment that is often used to demonstrate the counterintuitive shape of high-dimensional phenomena. This article is an interactive visual journey into the construct in the thought experiment, and the mathematics behind it.

Mathematics, Geometry, Visualizations

242 points by Hugsun 261 days ago | 56 comments

A browser-based music visualizer (neuralframes.com)
In the world of music, visuals are just as important as the sounds you create. With our music visualizer, you can generate stunning, audio-reactive animations that sync perfectly with your tracks.

Music, Visualizations, Web Applications, Creative Tools

3 points by nicollegah 265 days ago | 1 comments

Backwards Conway's Game of Life [video] (youtube.com)

Video Games, Programming, Visualizations

16 points by dvh 266 days ago | 0 comments

Launch HN: Haystack (YC S24) – Visualize and edit code on an infinite canvas (github.com/haystackeditor)
This repository ("Haystack Editor") is where we (Haystack Software) develop the Haystack Editor product together with the community.

Software, YC, Code Editors, Visualizations

328 points by akshaysg 275 days ago | 173 comments

How colorful ribbon diagrams became the face of proteins (quantamagazine.org)
Jane Richardson never considered herself an artist. Then, in the late 1970s, the structural biologist found herself in need of some colored pencils, pastels and sketching paper.