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Comment by tempaccsoz5

16 hours ago

TimeLine maintainer here. Their demo for live-streamed data [0] in a line plot is surprisingly bad given how slick the rest of it seems. For comparison, this [1] is a comparatively smooth demo of the same goal, but running entirely on the main thread and using the classic "2d" canvas rendering mode.

[0]: https://chartgpu.github.io/ChartGPU/examples/live-streaming/...

[1]: https://crisislab-timeline.pages.dev/examples/live-with-plug...

The entire library seems to be AI generated [1] [2]. Not sure how much of it was actually written by a human and how much of it was AI.

[1]: https://github.com/ChartGPU/ChartGPU/blob/main/.cursor/agent...

[2]: https://github.com/ChartGPU/ChartGPU/blob/main/.claude/agent...

  • Given that the author's post and comments all sound like they were run through an LLM, I'm not at all surprised.

  • That was obvious before even looking at the repo because the OP used "the core insight" in the intro. Other telltale signs of these type of AI projects:

    - new account

    - spamming the project to HN, reddit etc the moment the demo half works

    - single contributor repo

    - Huge commits minutes apart

    - repo is less than a week old (sometimes literally hours)

    - half the commits start with "Enhance"

    - flashly demo that hides issues immediately obvious to experts in the field

    - author has slop AI project(s)

    OP uses more than one branch so he's more sophisticated than most.