# LLM visualization by Brendan Bycroft

6 Hacker News commenters recommended LLM visualization by Brendan Bycroft and 0 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 4 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Free interactive 3D visualization of tiny LLM layers with clear animations and introductions, praised for making inference easier to understand.

## Why people recommend it

- Clear graphs and animations (2 comments): "It has beautiful graphs, clear animations and good introductions, explainng the LLM inference cores well" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49798194)) "3d Visualization of tiny example LLM layers that do a very good job at showing what is going on" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47658540))
- Helps understand LLMs (2 comments): "it helped me understand LLMs better than anything else ever could" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49100228)) "this is a lot easier to wrap my head around" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47032810))
- Good introduction to inference (2 comments): "It has beautiful graphs, clear animations and good introductions, explainng the LLM inference cores well" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49798194)) "here's a classic intro to how LLMs work" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46915471))
- Useful for learning LLMs (3 comments): "it helped me understand LLMs better than anything else ever could" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49100228)) "this is a lot easier to wrap my head around" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47032810)) "I also found [1] very useful in the past." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49793453))

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## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "LLM visualization by Brendan Bycroft", https://hackerapproved.com/p/llm-visualization/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).