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Show HN: Hover – IDE style hover documentation on any webpage

56 points by sampsonj

by ramon156

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> the extension detects tokens and sends the code to an LLM
> The LLM generates documentation
so, not documentation? Why not write your own engine and detect the official docs? e.g. docs.rs would do this wonderfully

by esafak

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Since these are called "tooltips" you might want to use the term more prominently.

by onion2k

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Nice idea, but unless it's using up-to-date docs it's likely to introduce a lot of confusion, especially if you're reading docs to find out what changed between versions. You really need to be sending the code and the version of the software that the person reading the page is looking at.

by kristopolous

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interesting idea for a 1.0. Using https://context7.com/ might be the right next move here.
Also look into https://cht.sh/
Remember: incorrect (misleading) documentation is worse than no documentation.
What this might be better for is use-cases that don't require extreme precision. Imagine it for learning language or reading sophisticated academic literature. For example, https://archive.org/details/pdfy-TJ7HxrAly-MtUP4B/page/n111/...
Stuff like that is hard and every tool to make the complicated more legible I'd embrace.

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by mmmmbbbhb

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by iLoveOncall

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