How to Use LLMs
A chat interface laid out sideways: each Q&A is a page, old pages collapse into topic-colored tabs. Runs on your Claude subscription through the Claude Code CLI, embeddings local via Ollama. Zero runtime dependencies. - canaanmckenzie/sidelong
How to Use LLMs launched on October 15, 2026 with 6 votes, #660 of 3,148 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.
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I used Claude Code to discover connections between 100 booksJan 2026 · trails.pieterma.es · ▲524I think LLMs are overused to summarise and underused to help us read deeper. I built a system for Claude Code to browse 100 non-fiction books and find interesting connections between them. I started out with a pipeline in stages, chaining together LLM calls to build up a context of the library. I was mainly getting back the insight that I was baking into the prompts, and the results weren't particularly surprising. On a whim, I gave CC access to my debug CLI tools and found that it wiped the floor with that approach. It gave actually interesting results and required very little orchestration…
ScrollDec 2025 · chromewebstore.google.com · ▲93I kept losing ideas in long chats, so I built a tiny Chrome extension to make navigating between turns/prompts way easier. Idk why this isn't a native feature on all LLMs. Anyway, free and open source on GitHub or the Chrome Store. Hope it's helpful! Chrome Store: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/scroll/mpcklmodkihb... GitHub: https://github.com/asker-kurtelli/scroll
- HLHow LLMs Work – Interactive visual guide based on Karpathy's lectureApr 2026 · ynarwal.github.io · ▲245
All content is based on Andrej Karpathy's "Intro to Large Language Models" lecture (youtube.com/watch?v=7xTGNNLPyMI). I downloaded the transcript and used Claude Code to generate the entire interactive site from it — single HTML file. I find it useful to revisit this content time to time.

TwiggOct 2025 · twigg.ai · ▲157Hi HN, we’re Jamie and Matti, co-founders of Twigg. During our master’s we continually found the same pain points cropping up when using LLMs. The linear nature of typical LLMs interfaces - like ChatGPT and Claude - made it really easy to get lost without any easy way to visualise or navigate your project. Worst of all, none of them are well suited for long term projects. We found ourselves spending days using the same chat, only for it to eventually break. Transferring context from one chat to another is also cumbersome. We decided to build something more intuitive to the ways humans think.…
Chat with multiple LLMs: o1-high-effort, Sonnet 3.5, GPT-4o, and more2025 · polychat.co · ▲62Hello HN! I was fed up switching between multiple UIs to ask GPT, Claude, etc… the same question and comparing the answers. So I built a way to ask multiple models the same question efficiently by having the LLM compare the responses and only show you new and valuable information from the 2nd model. This way you still get a fast response as normal from the 1st model, but also get any added value provided by the 2nd model. Initially I built my own UI to use this, but stumbled upon Open WebUI (formerly Ollama WebUI) which is fantastic, but is made more for local access to LLMs. So I talked to…
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