Cool project. Could see this being useful embedded in LMS platforms or educational sites via iframe. Any plans to allow iframe embedding?
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#222 Criticisms:
- On mobile, it's quite hard to hit the X to close an element description. With my specific screen size, I always end up opening Darmstadtium.
- The Element quiz hints consistently give away the answer in the penultimate or final clue.
Other than that, fun project! Thanks for sharing
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#23Every Show HN should come with an AI disclosure detailing exactly how much AI was used to create it. It's not that using AI is bad per se , but I don't want to be a human critiquing an AI's work, it's hard to respond if I don't know who/what built it.
We're considering how to improve the way Show HNs are evaluated and presented. Lately we've had to think deeply about exactly what has changed about Show HNs in the era of AI-generated code, and one way of thinking about it is that code-generation has basically eaten everything that used to be interesting about most Show HN posts. I.e.: What were the obstacles to making it work? What approaches did you try that didn'…
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#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
We're considering how to improve the way Show HNs are evaluated and presented. Lately we've had to think deeply about exactly what has changed about Show HNs in the era of AI-generated code, and one way of thinking about it is that code-generation has basically eaten everything that used to be interesting about most Show HN posts. I.e.: What were the obstacles to making it work? What approaches did you try that didn'…
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#25Beautiful. Another approach to visualizing the discovery of elements would be a "time travel" feature, where you see a timeline with just years below the table and can click on a year to see how the table looked that year.
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#26Bug report: in Safari (28.3.1 on macOS Tahoe 26.3.1) the electrons in the configuration pane are orbiting off-centre. Ok in Firefox and Chrome.
Also, i think in the timeline you should show a summary of the discovery on hovering over the element, so you don't have to click then go back.
Otherwise — nice!
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#27I can indeed see some UI patterns that are indicative of vibe coding. So what? Did something like this exist before, with the same level of interactivity? I certainly had not come across it. Should Show HN be exclusive to hand-crafted code that demonstrate software mastery? Where things are going, that would be a slippery slope. I think we should be celebrating what is possible using this new generation of tools, and…
> Did something like this exist before, with the same level of interactivity?
Yes, many of them. There have been online interactive tables of the elements since the early days of the web, and even before that they were available on DVD-ROM encyclopedias — I think Encarta had one.
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#28The chemists have retained until today the obsolete prejudice that 0 is not a number equivalent with any other cardinal number.
Because of this, all published periodic tables are missing 1 chemical element.
Ignoring the artificial oganessian (of which it is not possible to make more than a few atoms that decay instantly), the column of the noble gases must have 7 noble gases that are encountered in nature: neutron (Z=0), helium (Z=2), neon (Z=10), argon (Z=18), krypton (Z=36), xenon (Z=54) and radon (Z=86).
Of these 7, the first and the last, i.e. neutron and radon are unstable and decay quickly, while the other 5 are stable.
Neutron does not enter in chemical combinations, but the same is true for the other light noble gases, helium and neon, so this does not make it distinct from the other chemical elements. Like also technetium and promethium, neutron is a chemical element that does not have any beta-stable isotope (because the beta-stable isobar with A=1 has Z=1, i.e. it is an isotope of hydrogen).
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#29Stupid bug on Android Firefox. Scrolling to the side opens description
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#30Every Show HN should come with an AI disclosure detailing exactly how much AI was used to create it. It's not that using AI is bad per se , but I don't want to be a human critiquing an AI's work, it's hard to respond if I don't know who/what built it.
We're considering how to improve the way Show HNs are evaluated and presented. Lately we've had to think deeply about exactly what has changed about Show HNs in the era of AI-generated code, and one way of thinking about it is that code-generation has basically eaten everything that used to be interesting about most Show HN posts. I.e.: What were the obstacles to making it work? What approaches did you try that didn'…
I didn't intend it as a swipe, more as an invitation for the creator to write a comment explaining the development process.
I have no problem with people using AI to make things, even for a Show HN. I myself use AI as does I assume almost everyone on HN nowadays.
I do have a problem with if something was made entirely with AI and the OP didn't disclose that fact. I'm not saying that this OP did that, but if they don't say either way then all I can do is make my best guess, which could be wrong.
IMO it would be useful if the description on Show HN was made mandatory so that creators can introduce their projects. The days when you can just let your work speak for itself are long gone.