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Show HN: The Rise of Open Weights – a long scroll story

A developer created a long-scroll story about the rise of open-weight AI models, using Claude Code to build the website while writing the narrative himself. The project aims to present the complex history of open weights in an engaging format that wouldn't fit on a personal blog.

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Over the weekend I was discussing the latest news relating to open weights with some of my non-techie friends. After 30 mins of waffling, I realised it is quite a long and interesting story, with many twists and turns.

I've always wanted to create a 'long scroll' story, but have never found a suitable story to tell. This felt like a fun weekend project to undertake.

The story itself doesn't have too many scroll effects (which is probably a good thing), it was more about trying to tell a story with a certain style that wouldn't really fit on my personal blog.

Would love to get your feedback on the content and / or presentation.

AI Usage Notice: I used AI to help research the content, but the story itself was written entirely by me. Whereas the long scroll website was created entirely by Claude Code.

As an aside, I had Claude create a simple markdown-based rendering process (inspired by remark.js) to ensure a deterministic rendering that didn't alter any of my words.

Comments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49082976](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49082976)

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