LLM visualization by Brendan Bycroft
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Free interactive 3D visualization of tiny LLM layers with clear animations and introductions, praised for making inference easier to understand.
Free interactive 3D visualization of tiny LLM layers with clear animations and introductions, praised for making inference easier to understand.
6 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 6
- criticize it
- 0
- approval share
- 100%
Recommended in 4 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 6 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- Nobody criticizes itNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 4 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Clear graphs and animations
“It has beautiful graphs, clear animations and good introductions, explainng the LLM inference cores well”
Comment from 22 Sep 2026 in “Transformers Explained Visually” “3d Visualization of tiny example LLM layers that do a very good job at showing what is going on”
Comment from 6 Apr 2026 in “Show HN: I built a tiny LLM to demystify how language models work” Helps understand LLMs
“it helped me understand LLMs better than anything else ever could”
Comment from 29 Jul 2026 in “TokenTown: A visual way to understand how LLMs work” “this is a lot easier to wrap my head around”
Comment from 16 Feb 2026 in “Show HN: Microgpt is a GPT you can visualize in the browser” Good introduction to inference
“It has beautiful graphs, clear animations and good introductions, explainng the LLM inference cores well”
Comment from 22 Sep 2026 in “Transformers Explained Visually” “here's a classic intro to how LLMs work”
Comment from 6 Feb 2026 in “Understanding Neural Network, Visually” Useful for learning LLMs
“it helped me understand LLMs better than anything else ever could”
Comment from 29 Jul 2026 in “TokenTown: A visual way to understand how LLMs work” “this is a lot easier to wrap my head around”
Comment from 16 Feb 2026 in “Show HN: Microgpt is a GPT you can visualize in the browser” “I also found [1] very useful in the past.”
Comment from 21 Sep 2026 in “Transformers Explained Visually”
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The four most recommended other interactive visualizations, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ciechanow.ski | 33 | 1 | 97% | 9 | — | Approved |
| Size of Life | 30 | 4 | 88% | 2 | — | — |
| PGSimCity | 27 | 3 | 90% | 1 | — | — |
| Ithihāsas | 18 | 3 | 86% | 1 | — | — |
| LLM visualization by Brendan BycroftThis page | 6 | 0 | 100% | 4 | — | — |
What people said
All 6 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“It has beautiful graphs, clear animations and good introductions, explainng the LLM inference cores well”
“I also found [1] very useful in the past.”
“it helped me understand LLMs better than anything else ever could”
“3d Visualization of tiny example LLM layers that do a very good job at showing what is going on”
“this is a lot easier to wrap my head around”
“here's a classic intro to how LLMs work”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.