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Built Dental Scope

60 points • by Zeruxe • yesterday at 12:47 AM • 33 comments • view on HN

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m-s-y • today at 12:58 PM

Years and years of “mobile first” getting getting traction only to be forgotten in a heartbeat when it’s finally easy to do “real cool stuff” on desktop.

I personally couldn’t be happier about it.

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jamessb • today at 12:35 PM

This reminds me of "Human Atlas" [1] (created by GPT-6 Astra) - there's a video in the tweet announcing it [2].

There was a live deploy, but it is currently unavailable: https://human-atlas-seven.vercel.app/

[1]: https://github.com/ashemag/human-atlas

[2]: https://x.com/ashebytes/status/2096221988763173186?lang=ar-x...

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Zeruxe • yesterday at 12:47 AM

Built Dental Scope, a free open source 3D learning tool for exploring teeth, jaws, nerves, vessels and dental structures.

Live: https://dental-scope.com/

GitHub: https://github.com/Yoosseph/dental-scope

Feedback and contributions are welcome

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ivanjermakov • today at 11:01 AM

According to commit history, built in 3 days.

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pelagicAustral • today at 12:39 PM

It's pretty neat... and reminds me, I need to go to the dentist... oh well...

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Zeruxe • today at 12:52 PM

Just a clarification for the people hating on clankers, I want to know what you expect from todays devs? do you genuinely think that people should manually handcode everything for it to hold any significant value?

I just don't understand the point of view where - "a clanker made it therefore it's trash", it's always the same people they lurk on reddit aswell.

Even in the case of putting something together manually, you are competing against people using AI and you will never match their production level or speed.

I mean the people who hold the highest priority say in this are the dentists/dental students, and so far all the feedback from those have been nothing but positive?

NichoPaolucci • today at 11:06 AM

I wonder when Claude will stop doing "pale but not white background with a serif heading"

Also - not sure what happened, but clicking around, I got the entire model to disappear entirely and the reset button did not bring it back. A refresh did work.

One UX suggestion: The "Dissect Anatomy" area should instead have a toggle switch for the "laid out" option (And that could disable the assembled/in position ), as that seems to be a binary control, where the "assembled" and "in position" options are actually modified by the vertical slider.

Seems neat, for the most part.

doodlebugging • today at 12:25 PM

Too bad the AI that this is built with isn't bright enough to know how many permanent teeth there are in a human's jaw. 38 seems high. Why should anyone trust it to know how all the other things are connected?

I hate to think that there are generations of engineers, programmers, etc who will not be qualified to determine whether the AI tools that they build and deploy can answer any of the questions that one would be inclined to ask or solve any of the problems that might need solutions.

Get an education. Learn to think for yourself so that you can recognize when some slop like this hits the screen.

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copperwire • today at 10:48 AM

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tmarice • today at 12:11 PM

You built nothing.

You pointed your clanker of choice to a dataset (or more realistically, asked it to find an appropriate dataset), and told it to build a interactive 3d model. You learned nothing from this project because no mental effort was spent beyond listing out features for your clanker, and some manual testing.

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