# ciechanow.ski

33 Hacker News commenters recommended ciechanow.ski and 1 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 9 of 13 months. It meets the Hacker Approved badge rule.

**Verdict:** Interactive articles that explain how mechanical and physical things work, praised for visual craft, accuracy and readable code.

## Why people recommend it

- Inspires others to make explainers (4 comments): "I love this blog so much that I used it as a guide for building my own series of explainers" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50091677)) "exceptionally well written and designed articles inspired this one" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49028084)) "Bartosz Ciechanowski's work was my inspiration!" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48791695))
- Interactive visual explanations of how things work (4 comments): "S-TIER blogs are those that are animated, visual, interactive and absolutely blow your mind off" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47304459)) "very complex visualization perfectly accessible from the mobile phone" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49799585)) "can only really be appreciated from the browser" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48049349))
- Beautiful and educational presentation (3 comments): "make a site as wonderful both in visual presentation and in code, while being as factually accurate as ciechanow.ski" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49427484)) "Sites that are true works of art and craft, like https://ciechanow.ski/ , will get remembered more widely" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46458715)) "it's both really educational and beautiful at the same time" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49619025))

## What people warn about

- Some diagrams hard to follow (1 comments): "quite a few of the diagrams were so alien to me that they became undecipherable" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47207940))

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## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "ciechanow.ski", https://hackerapproved.com/p/ciechanow-ski/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).