{"slug": "show-hn-better-graphs-teach-agents-to-stop-making-plain-matplotlib-slop", "title": "Show HN: Better Graphs – Teach agents to stop making plain Matplotlib slop", "summary": "A developer released Better Graphs, an open-source repository on GitHub that teaches agents and humans to create aesthetically improved Matplotlib plots. The project includes agent instructions, a tutorial blog, and a custom Matplotlib style file inspired by Edward Tufte's data visualization principles.", "body_md": "[https://github.com/temataro/better-graphs](https://github.com/temataro/better-graphs)\n\nI want to teach good Matplotlib taste to agents and humans. This repo contains: 1. Agent instructions + design motifs (Claude Code skills + a CLAUDE.md). 2. An online \"blog\" tutorial of the same skills, for people. 3. minerva.mplstyle, my opinionated sane matplotlib defaults.\n\nInspired by Tufte's book: The Visual Display of Quantitative Information (a gift from my boss!), plus data-to-viz.com and the python-graph-gallery. Aiming for halfway to the gorgeous plots in the paid matplotlib-journey.com, but free and open to share with friends. :)\n\nComments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48705038](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48705038)\n\nPoints: 5\n\n# Comments: 1", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-better-graphs-teach-agents-to-stop-making-plain-matplotlib-slop", "canonical_source": "https://temataro.github.io/better-graphs/", "published_at": "2026-06-28 06:54:30+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-28 07:34:41.605487+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["developer-tools", "ai-agents"], "entities": ["Better Graphs", "Matplotlib", "GitHub", "Claude Code", "Edward Tufte", "data-to-viz.com", "python-graph-gallery", "matplotlib-journey.com"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-better-graphs-teach-agents-to-stop-making-plain-matplotlib-slop", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-better-graphs-teach-agents-to-stop-making-plain-matplotlib-slop.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-better-graphs-teach-agents-to-stop-making-plain-matplotlib-slop.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-better-graphs-teach-agents-to-stop-making-plain-matplotlib-slop.jsonld"}}