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Show HN: Agents infer Lego mechanisms from sources, then animate them

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Hi there :) Around a month ago, I released LDraw Nova, an agentic toolset for assembling LEGO CAD models by generating LDraw source code files. For more details, here's the Show HN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49937916 From the comments, I got the impression that there was quite an interest in seeing not only AI-generated LEGO models, but also AI-animated LEGO ones. I took a look at results from past experiments, and found it feasible to use agentic LLMs for: - analyzing the…

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antelocnova
Posted
Nov 6, 2026
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github.com

Story details from Hacker News ↗ · linked article on github.com.

Trending history

Show HN: Agents infer Lego mechanisms from sources, then animate them was first seen on Hacker News · Front page on Nov 6, 2026. Since then it has appeared in 65 checks on 2 different days, across 2 lists (Hacker News · Front page, Hacker News · Show HN). Its best position was #25 of 30, reached on Nov 6, 23:22 UTC. It dropped off the list after Nov 7, 19:20 UTC.

Rank history

Position on Hacker News · Front page at every check (lower is better).

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Last 14 days

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Where it trended

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Hacker News · Front page#25218
Hacker News · Show HN#2247

From the discussion

A few top-level comments from Hacker News, shortened. Read the full thread on Hacker News.

Hi anteloc, congrats on some cool projects! Look forward to playing with them over the weekend. pyldraw3 creator here btw... would love to find a forum where we (i.e. the handful of us trying to push lego tooling forward) can collaborate and communicate better. My current main effort is deterministic…

Questions

Is Show HN: Agents infer Lego mechanisms from sources, then animate them trending on Hacker News right now?

Not at the moment. It was last on the list on Nov 7, 19:20 UTC, after 2 days of trending.

What is the highest rank Show HN: Agents infer Lego mechanisms from sources, then animate them reached?

#25 on Hacker News · Front page, on Nov 6, 23:22 UTC. Trendoday checks this list every 15 minutes.

How long has Show HN: Agents infer Lego mechanisms from sources, then animate them been trending?

It was first seen on Nov 6, 2026 and has been on the list on 2 days (65 checks) since.

How much discussion did it get on Hacker News?

27 points and 1 comment; submitted by antelocnova on Nov 6, 2026.