Show HN: Science for Kids

There’s a really good kids’ science magazine called Oyla, but it’s aimed at kids 12+

I subscribed a couple of years ago thinking that it would be fine for my son (then 8yo, but an advanced reader) but, even now (10yo), the articles are too dense for him and don’t hold his interest.

Last year, the same company launched ‘Oyla Junior’ aimed at younger kids ~8yo. But I read a couple of the articles and I think they’re too oversimplified.

I wanted something in between, but didn’t find anything suitable online.

So I used AI to create something, and did a bunch of iterations to tune the sentence length, the flow of the articles, how much info is introduced in each paragraph etc.

I still want to make it better, but it’s already good enough for my son to read.

Show HN: Science for Kids
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I'm interested to learn from the prompts you used to generate the images and texts. Perhaps a skill you could share to generate such content?

I was expecting something more visual and simple to explain to kids

Nice, you cover very interesting and fun questions! I'd love to know the answers to all of these once my kid (baby now) is old enough to ask about it. I scanned a few articles and they seem bit too long for me, I'd expect it to be more concise (I hope kids have a better attention span than me!). Btw, is the glove with six fingers for the article on six sides of an ice flake an intentional put?

Around the time I turned 11 or so, my dad bought be a "how stuff works" book; definitely written to a "newspaper" reading level. It was paperback, not a lot of pictures, and generally held my interest. I think it targeted older teenagers or adults.

What surprised me was halfway through there was a section on how hash is made!