alt Hacker NewsThis is beautiful and highly readable but, still, I yearn for a detailed line-by-line explainer like the backbone.js source: https://backbonejs.org/docs/backbone.html
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ashish01 • yesterday at 5:31 AM
That is really beautiful literate program. Seeing it after a long time. Here is a opus generate version of this code - https://ashish01.github.io/microgpt.html
subset • yesterday at 7:40 AM
Andrej Karpathy has a walkthrough blog post here: https://karpathy.github.io/2026/02/12/microgpt/
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altcognito • yesterday at 4:33 AM
ask a high end LLM to do it
I believe that Backbone's annotated source is generated with Docco, another project from the creator of CoffeeScript.
https://ashkenas.com/docco/
It's really neat. I wish I published more of my code this way.