Hacker News: 0xA2kaghttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=0xA2kagHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Mon, 27 Apr 2026 17:43:35 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by 0xA2kag in "TurboQuant: A first-principles walkthrough"]]>I have added the lineage section in the explainer: https://arkaung.github.io/interactive-turboquant/#lineage

]]>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 12:40:40 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=479208360xA2kaghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47920836https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47920836<![CDATA[New comment by 0xA2kag in "TurboQuant: A first-principles walkthrough"]]>It is just a bunch of ideas on how to make things intuitive and a bunch of hand holding Claude Code to get exactly what I want. Underlying is plain HTML CSS and JS.

]]>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 10:04:18 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=479196760xA2kaghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47919676https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47919676<![CDATA[New comment by 0xA2kag in "TurboQuant: A first-principles walkthrough"]]>I did a bunch of things :D I am not a frontend engineer (I am MLE) so I don't have the prowess to create things like this. I am heavily inspired by 3blue1brown and I love creating interactive explainers for ML concepts like this. I previously created this as well arkaung.github.io/interactive-eigenvector/. I heavily used Claude to get to the the exact design, typography, and style I want (there was a lot of hand holding to get to this state). I heavily influenced Claude on how I want the explainer to flow, how I want to make things intuitive, the kinds of mathematical concepts I want to visualize (and how). So all in all, a lot of hand holding for the Coding agents to get to where I want and exactly how I want.

But at the end of the day it is just vanilla HTML, CSS and JS without anything fancy :D MathJax 3 was used to render math stuff.

]]>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 08:48:43 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=479191910xA2kaghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47919191https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47919191<![CDATA[New comment by 0xA2kag in "TurboQuant: A first-principles walkthrough"]]>Thanks a lot for pointing this out. I will update this explainer to properly add the prior literature so that there is a proper attribution.

]]>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 08:45:19 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=479191640xA2kaghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47919164https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47919164<![CDATA[New comment by 0xA2kag in "TurboQuant: A first-principles walkthrough"]]>Hey, thanks for the pointer. Had I known this, I would have used codex (as a matter of fact, I have never used it before and this prompts me to use it if I can get something like this much quicker with codex). I think making codex copy this for a new content will be much easier now. The issue was with making things the way I exactly want, the exact intuition, the exact primers, and the exact visuals to drive the point home.

]]>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 08:44:05 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=479191560xA2kaghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47919156https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47919156<![CDATA[New comment by 0xA2kag in "TurboQuant: A first-principles walkthrough"]]>Thanks a lot <3

]]>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 08:42:03 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=479191490xA2kaghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47919149https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47919149<![CDATA[New comment by 0xA2kag in "TurboQuant: A first-principles walkthrough"]]>Thanks a lot <3

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