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Re: Show HN: Orange Juice – Small UX improvements that make HN easier to read

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You need AI to just replace the svg?

These days, everyone is using AI for even small things, because honestly it's easier to say to an AI to use original SVGs and have it go out and find the correct ones with a web search tool call than to do it myself, it's simply a waste of my time for small tasks like that.

Re: Show HN: Orange Juice – Small UX improvements that make HN easier to read

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You need AI to just replace the svg?

Of course I don't, but if it helps me do trivial tasks so that I can focus on other things, I might as well use it.

Re: Show HN: Orange Juice – Small UX improvements that make HN easier to read

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"Tested, not vibe coded" yet you mention the AI has written all the tests. This extension may not be vibe coded but it's close to that, it seems. Regardless it seems to work well, I replaced the older Refined Hacker News extension with this, which seems like where you initially sourced the code from as the features are very similar, 1:1 even for some. I also use this extension HNRelevant ( https://addons.mozilla.org/…

It is heavily coded with AI, but I'm also a 30+ year web developer. I'm not just one shotting all of the code, I'm reading it too. I'm feeling like it is giving me super powers. See the thread below about refined, which hasn't received an update in 4 years. I have HNRelevant on my list of features that I've been collecting. I tried oxc and didn't like it as much as biome. They admittedly aren't as good at formatting…

Sounds good. Another bug or quirk, with Refined, I was able to reply and then tab once to the reply button and hit enter. Now with the "HN's approach to comments and site guidelines." text I can't do that, "comments" and "guidelines" are links so I have to tab three times to get to the reply button which is annoying. Omit that text or change the tab order (this is possible in HTML with the tabindex attribute, just make the reply button higher priority).

Also add ctrl/cmd-enter support to submit the reply.

Also this orange border when clicking a comment or link on the front page is a bit annoying, especially when it doesn't seem to actually do anything (it's not a tab select style, that shows up as the browser's normal style), and it seems to persist.

Re: Show HN: Orange Juice – Small UX improvements that make HN easier to read

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The improvements are nice, that's for sure. But i checked out github and it looks like overengineered ai slop, you could implement all the features with 1/10 of the code. But again, nobody cares nowadays which makes me sad. You even generated chrome/firefox logos using ai...

How is it over-engineered slop? Happy to improve things, but I thought it was pretty clean.

You claim to have 30+ years of webdev experience and yet 2 MEGABYTES of javascript only for those features doesn't feel/look wrong to you?

Re: Show HN: Orange Juice – Small UX improvements that make HN easier to read

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It is heavily coded with AI, but I'm also a 30+ year web developer. I'm not just one shotting all of the code, I'm reading it too. I'm feeling like it is giving me super powers. See the thread below about refined, which hasn't received an update in 4 years. I have HNRelevant on my list of features that I've been collecting. I tried oxc and didn't like it as much as biome. They admittedly aren't as good at formatting…

Sounds good. Another bug or quirk, with Refined, I was able to reply and then tab once to the reply button and hit enter. Now with the "HN's approach to comments and site guidelines." text I can't do that, "comments" and "guidelines" are links so I have to tab three times to get to the reply button which is annoying. Omit that text or change the tab order (this is possible in HTML with the tabindex attribute, just ma…

Great suggestion! I literally took your comment, passed it into AI. At first it tried to remove the text as well as set tabIndex to -1 in code, but I think now I've got something I like.

This has been fixed and is making its way out now.

Re: Show HN: Orange Juice – Small UX improvements that make HN easier to read

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It is heavily coded with AI, but I'm also a 30+ year web developer. I'm not just one shotting all of the code, I'm reading it too. I'm feeling like it is giving me super powers. See the thread below about refined, which hasn't received an update in 4 years. I have HNRelevant on my list of features that I've been collecting. I tried oxc and didn't like it as much as biome. They admittedly aren't as good at formatting…

Sounds good. Another bug or quirk, with Refined, I was able to reply and then tab once to the reply button and hit enter. Now with the "HN's approach to comments and site guidelines." text I can't do that, "comments" and "guidelines" are links so I have to tab three times to get to the reply button which is annoying. Omit that text or change the tab order (this is possible in HTML with the tabindex attribute, just ma…

The orange box is to mark where you are currently focused. If you use the keyboard navigation (keys: j/k), it really helps.

Re: Show HN: Orange Juice – Small UX improvements that make HN easier to read

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You need AI to just replace the svg?

Of course I don't, but if it helps me do trivial tasks so that I can focus on other things, I might as well use it.

I think it's fine if you find the design of the site a trivial thing that others shouldn't focus on, but it kinda begs the question why you didn't just have the ai generate a much simpler page. Why have the ai generate all this fluff when you just want to show of what you've made? You (rightfully!) care about not wasting your own time, why waste ours?

Re: Show HN: Orange Juice – Small UX improvements that make HN easier to read

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How is it over-engineered slop? Happy to improve things, but I thought it was pretty clean.

You claim to have 30+ years of webdev experience and yet 2 MEGABYTES of javascript only for those features doesn't feel/look wrong to you?

You're not really answering the question.

That's the bundle size, not the amount of code in the project.

I've done nothing to try to optimize the bundle size, but I suspect that a lot of it has to do with some of the third party dependencies like mermaid.

Re: Show HN: Orange Juice – Small UX improvements that make HN easier to read

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How about a Safari/Mobile Safari extension so iPhone users can use it?

Agreed. Unfortunately, the browser extension tool that I use, wxt [0], doesn't support Safari yet. It seems there are some work arounds, but I haven't gotten to it yet. PR's welcome, of course. =)

[0] https://wxt.dev/guide/essentials/publishing.html#safari

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