Nit - the UI glitches/flashes as I scroll the page.
Show HN: Performative-UI – A react component library of design tropes
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I've mostly stopped caring about using using proper capitalization, commas, grammar and spelling in my writing of comments, primarily as a signal that i'm not an llm.
If you turn on HN's "Show Dead" setting, there are tons of LLM-generated comments on stories related to AI. You can see the human(s) behind the LLM trying to fiddle with the style of comment by making them skip proper grammar, capitalization, use or avoid certain phrases, and so on. The biggest tell for LLM content, though, is just the content as a whole: it sounds fake and ungenuine, like it passed through a committ…
i mean, i definitely agree and am somehow allergic to seeing llm written text from other humans (you typed a prompt! why not just post it directly? i'd rather have bad spelling and grammar than llm slop). but... while i feel i can detect it pretty reliably in forums like HN, i can't help but think that this is the toupée fallacy[0] at work. of course, all the text that _i_ think is fake is clearly fake after all
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#193Earlier quoted context omitted.
Craigslist became popular when that was the clean look for a website, and then never bothered updating. Network effects in action. Temu offers people the ability to save money. If your product is "X, but cheaper" you can have a worse UI than X.
Amazon is a hideous looking website too and always has been. Ebay is similar too in that aspect and plenty of others.
They were established when hideous websites were common changing would cause uproar and possibly alienate a large group of users.
Look at Googles web page just a text box on a blank page, no way you are launching with that UI in 2026.
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#194It's funny how many people here like it. Well it doesn't surprise me since the websites being upvoted here from startups look like this too.
Personally I barf when I come across a website that looks like this and close it immediately. It's about as appealing as stock images. I also immediately think that this is for a SAAS that will be bog-slow, expensive and only integrates with github.
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#195It's funny how many people here like it. Well it doesn't surprise me since the websites being upvoted here from startups look like this too. Personally I barf when I come across a website that looks like this and close it immediately. It's about as appealing as stock images. I also immediately think that this is for a SAAS that will be bog-slow, expensive and only integrates with github.
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#196I love how this is both hilarious and extremely well made. Great job! And I'm gonna be honest, I kind of want to use a few of these components for real (the ASCII art is fantastic).
Yeah this is incredibly high quality (at least on the surface, who knows what's underneath). Great job authors.
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#197The funny thing is, the techniques shown here are the ones that were once considered something only advanced front-end developers or publishers could do. Seeing that a former symbol of skill has now become a subject of satire makes me think that what we call 'high-level' ultimately comes from what others can't do. I personally never even thought about how to implement ASCII art animation.
If this is the UI you want to make but you recognize that it has become cliche, the best way to do it and keep your hipster dignity is to make fun of everyone who likes it and wants to use it.
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#198It's funny how many people here like it. Well it doesn't surprise me since the websites being upvoted here from startups look like this too. Personally I barf when I come across a website that looks like this and close it immediately. It's about as appealing as stock images. I also immediately think that this is for a SAAS that will be bog-slow, expensive and only integrates with github.
Well, at least the copy on the site reads like satire. I didn't notice it at first, looking at components; but then I started reading the text.
P.S.: The popover description is brilliant:
> The obtrusive newsletter modal every AI startup deploys. Takes over the entire viewport with a blurred backdrop. By design, neither the Escape key nor backdrop clicks close it; the visitor either submits the form inside or clicks the tiny dismissal link at the bottom. Pair with `timer` to auto-open after the visitor has skimmed a few paragraphs.
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It really comes down to first impression. Your website design is your company’s first impression. If the design is clean, people will believe the product is clean and robust as well. Similar to how people think things that cost more and probably high quality and better overall. As for this website, the best component is the ASCII animation in the hero and you can’t even copy that component. In fact, that nice ASCII h…
My first impression when entering websites with such "hero animations" is noticing my gpu usage spiking and my power consumption increasing by 20W because somebody thought it was cool to have some pointless but "cool" canvas/WebGL/CSS (or whatever it is) animation.
What's the point of having the GPU if you never use it, right?