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Show HN: Beautiful interactive explainers generated with Claude Code (paraschopra.github.io)

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Hello HN,

Recently an amazingly beautiful explainer was shared on HN: https://explainers.blog/posts/why-is-the-sky-blue/

I loved it so much that I wished more topics were explained that way. So, I decided to stress-test today's frontier models (Opus 4.6 in Claude Code) to generate similar explainer on any given topic WITH (almost) one shot and minimal nudging.

I'm launching with four topics: Fourier transformation, scaling laws in bio, cellular automata and LLMs.

I would let you be the judge, but I'm quite liking them.

Some things I learned:

- Prompting CC to test what it builds using headless chromium is essential - There are subtle bugs in explanations (like in one animation human lifespan is 40 years) - Asking CC to verify its plan via codex works really well

I do want to reiterate that the pages generated were mostly one-shot, which amazed me given how detailed the pages + animations are.

12 comments

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coulix
Looking great, how did you standardized animations / canvas work? Did AI help?
yu3zhou4
Please share prompts or md files so we can generate more!
webcoon
Are these animated visualizations in the sky-explainer all original? If so, I am blown away by the visual consistency and meaningfulness of these throughout the article.
sixtyj
There was a discussion yesterday that LLM generated “Show HN” posts should be moved to another thread :)

Nevertheless, it looks nice but I can’t be sure that texts are correct. Did OP check everything because she/he knows deeply the topic?

Citations give credits to text but can we be sure about them if they are automatically generated? Live links to arXiv or ResearchGate would be much better.

Graphics and visualisations look great, well done.

verdverm
Are they accurate? How do you verify?
energy123
> Asking CC to verify its plan via codex

How does this work? You tell it to call `codex exec`?

maille
Would make one piece on optical interferometry? Inalways struggle explaining this with simple terms when asked to.
kelseydh
It's mindblowing while reading this that I had no idea they were LLM generated.
lordgrenville
And as a bonus, sometimes the information is correct!
datguyfromAT
Kinda funny, because on the surface it looks really pretty, but if you dig a little deeper the flaws emerge. For example in the llm explainer section 3: king - man + woman = queen. But if I input queen - woman + man = ???

I guess that is what "one shot" ai generated code gets without any human or even ai review

chinathrow
One-shot - how did you review that the output is accurate?
Otterly99
The Fourier transform one is really cool. I loved the 5x oscilloscopes builder and the "draw your own wave" widget. Also, seeing the correlation coefficients of the 3Hz + 7Hz wave was really neat.