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We’ve spent the last decade teaching people how to code with an HTML-based video format. We’ve now plugged an LLM into it, so that people can create explainer videos about anything. It’s called “Scrimba Explain”.\n\nTo demo this technology for Hacker News, we built HN.watch. It’s like HN, but with explainer videos instead of articles. 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Kidding, I already sent it to a friend with ADHD who has been struggling to remain anchored to the tech world in any way besides Shorts. But, culturally, I…",{"value":73,"source":55,"evidence":74},"Free MCP for using the explainer tool; cost per video about $0.04 per maker",[75,76],{"id":58},{"id":77,"by":11,"text":78},"49883757","Nice! Will check out that repo. You can use MCP to generate an Explainer video next time if you want. 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In which case we use the Algolia API to…","unknown","launched","company",{"praise":111,"objections":140,"requests":171,"questions":197,"alternatives":212},[112,128],{"value":113,"source":114,"evidence":115},"Technically impressive and low cost per video","commenter",[116,120,124],{"id":117,"by":118,"text":119},"49881917","dverlaeckt80","This is actually quite impressive from an engineer viewpoint. I just have the feeling that the videos quickly become very monotonous and rather boring due to the monotonous AI…",{"id":121,"by":122,"text":123},"49882167","fishtoaster","Because we all contain multitudes, I can simultaneously accept that: 1. I hate everything about this because I vastly prefer text over video for the same content, especially AI…",{"id":125,"by":126,"text":127},"49883910","ElijahLynn","Love this! I've already used it a bunch to go through some HN posts that I might not have otherwise read. It's definitely a form of TLDR, but for watching?! 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I'll say this... it does the job of \"I can't spend 45 minutes on a journal article that's already over my head, or get through 20 pages of blog…",{"id":150,"by":151,"text":152},"49882526","ProofHouse","I would stick with this. There's huge potential here. I'm not going to lie, I did a video of this, and it was pretty slop. Some of it didn't even make sense and was super…",{"value":154,"source":114,"evidence":155},"Video format encourages passive consumption and weakens reading",[156,160],{"id":157,"by":158,"text":159},"49883201","jonplackett","I feel I need to explain beyond just a whine. I think this is exactly the opposite of what AI should be used for. It is going to make people dumb. 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