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24 alternatives to Plasma Physics GPT

Here's a simple RAG using MongoDB Atlas and Radiant geared towards plasma physics graduate students. Having been a plasma physicist in a past life my hope is this tool will be useful for anyone new to the field who is heads down reading existing literature. So far I have ingested a few papers I read in grad school, as well as my PhD thesis, but am happy to add more. Just let me know!

Plasma Physics GPT is a retrieval-augmented generation tool built with MongoDB Atlas and Radiant for plasma physics graduate students. It allows users to search and learn from a collection of academic papers and a PhD… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Plasma Physics GPT launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Creator here. I built ChartGPU because I kept hitting the same wall: charting libraries that claim to be "fast" but choke past 100K data points. The core insight: Canvas2D is fundamentally CPU-bound. Even WebGL chart libraries still do most computation on the CPU. So I moved everything to the GPU via WebGPU: - LTTB downsampling runs as a compute shader - Hit-testing for tooltips/hover is GPU-accelerated - Rendering uses instanced draws (one draw call per series) The result: 1M points at 60fps with smooth zoom/pan. Live demo:…

    Jan 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Let AI create a full-stack web app based on your description

    2023 · usemage.ai · its alternatives →

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    SAAS GPT▲290

    React SaaS dashboard starter generated for you in seconds

    2024 · saasgpt.questlabs.ai · its alternatives →

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    This is a GPU "software" raytracer (i.e. using manual ray-scene intersections and not RTX) written using the WebGPU API that renders glTF scenes. It supports many materials, textures, material & normal mapping, and heavily relies on multiple importance sampling to speed up convergence.

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    An ultra-fast model for real-time coding in Codex

    Feb 2026 · openai.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN! I've found this visualization tool immensely helpful over the years for getting an intuition for how an LLM "sees" some piece of text, and with a bit of elbow grease decided to move all compute to client side so I could make it publicly available. I've found it particularly useful for - Understanding exactly how repetition and patterns affect a small LM's ability to predict correctly - Understanding different tokenization patterns and how it affects model output - Getting a general sense of how "hard" different prediction tasks are for GPT-style models Known problems (that I probably…

    2023 · perplexity.vercel.app · its alternatives →

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    Hello fellow hackers, we made a site that gets GPT to answer your question using the info on a webpage you specify or document you upload (e.g., a large textbook .pdf file). Background: When ChatGPT came out, I had the idea of having it pull answers from my stereo receiver's annoyingly dense 32 page manual. My weekend project prototype proceeded to surprise with great answers—just like what we've all experienced by now. My co-founder thought we should productize it, and make it easy to use online. So here we are with a very early beta! (Try it on a HN thread...)

    2023 · klavier.ai · its alternatives →

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    We ported pbrt-v4 to Julia and built it into a Makie backend. Any Makie plot can now be rendered with physically-based path tracing. Julia compiles user-defined physics directly into GPU kernels, so anyone can extend the ray tracer with new materials and media - a black hole with gravitational lensing is ~200 lines of Julia. Runs on AMD, NVIDIA, and CPU via KernelAbstractions.jl, with Metal coming soon. Demo scenes: github.com/SimonDanisch/RayDemo

    Feb 2026 · makie.org · its alternatives →

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    Monte Carlo ray tracer developed using Rust. Contribute to Dalamar42/rayt development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    I've developed a Python API service that uses GPT-4o for OCR on PDFs. It features parallel processing and batch handling for improved performance. Not only does it convert PDF to markdown, but it also describes the images within the PDF using captions like `[Image: This picture shows 4 people waving]`. In testing with NASA's Apollo 17 flight documents, it successfully converted complex, multi-oriented pages into well-structured Markdown. The project is open-source and available on GitHub. Feedback is welcome.

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Write research-backed articles with citations

    2025 · paperguide.ai · its alternatives →

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    Ask/chat with any pdf | try for free

    2023 · pdfgpt.io · its alternatives →

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    Hey Hacker News! Launching gptengineer.app into beta today. It's like Claude Artifacts, but: - you can edit the code in your fav IDE (two-way github sync) - installs npm packages - automatically picks up build and runtime errors and fixes them - very fast, built with rust The full stack capabilities are built on supabase (prefer to not have to handle auth + user data at this point so this is owned by the user) The seed for this project was an open source experiment, posted about that previously here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36422730 Would love feedback if you give…

    2024 · gptengineer.app · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN, I've been using GPT a lot lately in some side projects around data generation and benchmarking. During the course of prompt tuning I ended up with a pretty complicated request: the value that I was looking for, an explanation, a criticism, etc. JSON was the most natural output format for this but results would often be broken, have wrong types, or contain missing fields. There's been some positive movement in this space, like with jsonformer (https://github.com/1rgs/jsonformer) the other day. But nothing that was plug and play with GPT. This library consolidates…

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    open-source agentic AI data assistant for the next generation of AI + Data products. - eosphoros-ai/DB-GPT

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A pretty simple but fun to play with simulator for a concept from mathematical physics called the "2D Coulomb gas". I originally made this for my Bachelor's thesis to create pretty pictures and build intuition but have recently gotten it a fresh coat of paint and better performance curtesy of WebGPU acceleration (ported with liberal help from Codex to get through all of the boilerplate). Play around with it - hopefully read up more on the 2D Coulomb gas because it is an incredibly deep topic research wise.

    Feb 2026 · simonhalvdansson.github.io · its alternatives →

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    Pure C# 3D real time physics simulation library, now with a higher version number. - bepu/bepuphysics2

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    GPU Raytracer from scratch in C++/CUDA. Contribute to jan-van-bergen/GPU-Raytracer development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    This is a small particles simulation that can run either with WebGPU (GPU Compute) or with the CPU, and it can be changed in real time

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    I’ve been experimenting with Rust lately and wanted a project that would help me explore some of its lower-level and performance-oriented features. Inspired by Sebastian Lague’s videos, I decided to implement my own ray tracer from scratch. The initial goal was just to render a simple 3D scene in the browser at a reasonable frame rate. It evolved into a small renderer that can: • Run locally or on the web using wgpu and WebAssembly • Perform mesh rendering with a Bounding Volume Hierarchy (BVH) for acceleration • Simulate both direct and indirect illumination for photorealistic results • Be…

    Nov 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Tabs, splits, and tmux work fine until you have several projects open with logs, tests, and long-running shells. I kept rebuilding context instead of resuming work. Horizon puts shells on an infinite canvas. You can arrange them into workspaces and reopen later with layout, scrollback, and history intact. Built in 3 days with Claude/Codex, dogfooding the workflow as I went. Feedback and contributions welcome.

    Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN! I made a tool that autogenerates simple, high-level explanations of concepts and organizes them in a somewhat university course-like structure so that it's easier to see how things are structured. Currently it has about 20,000 concepts on a range of topics but that's just what I generated so far, it should work with more obscure topics in the future. I love learning about random topics where I don't have a good background in like history or linguistics, but it's hard to figure out what topics there (you don't know what you don't know) are in certain fields and what they are even…

    2023 · platoeducation.ai · its alternatives →

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    Advanced Physics Library designed for Javascript and Node.JS - AbhiAgarwal/phys.js

    2013 · github.com · its alternatives →

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