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Re: Hacker News.love – 22 projects Hacker News didn't love

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Post by PennRobotics »

The entire site (including page margins) being a link to HN is an annoyance

edit: also, the autoscroll thing

The Tailwind CSS complaints aren't wrong even today; any time I want to apply a Stylus CSS to fix someone's janky site---particularly, weekly offers from area grocery stores, where I fix it once or twice and enjoy a much better UI for a year or two---and then all I see is class="rounded-lg shadow-primary-400 my-4 md:px-4 bg-white py-20 pt-8 dark:border-gray-600" for every single element... it gets me seriously aggravated! It's a hassle to modify and a hassle to parse. I imagine it's only convenient to write/maintain because you use a separate tool and compile it into the garbage it becomes.

Re: Hacker News.love – 22 projects Hacker News didn't love

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Post by embedding-shape »

Kind of feel like saying that HN didn't/did love those projects is a bit too black and white. Many of those submissions do have a lot of dismissive comments, but lots of them also have a lot of comments praising the project one or another way, explicitly or implicitly. Some of the highlighted comments also aren't even the top 3 comments, yet they're used as indicative of what the HN community loves or not.

But I guess that isn't as interesting to people today, nuance seems to be something people try to avoid, rather than seek out.

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Post by _cenw »

This website makes the error of assuming that being criticized on HN automatically implies your idea is not marketable.

Every point about ChatGPT and Claude Code is true. Not only is their material value detached from reality (as tends to be the case in hype cycles), but a few of the criticisms, especially the first about ChatGPT are about the social impact and not how much money the idea can make.

Feels dishonest to me.

Re: Hacker News.love – 22 projects Hacker News didn't love

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Post by H8crilA »

PennRobotics wrote: post #2

The entire site (including page margins) being a link to HN is an annoyance edit: also, the autoscroll thing The Tailwind CSS complaints aren't wrong even today; any time I want to apply a Stylus CSS to fix someone's janky site---particularly, weekly offers from area grocery stores, where I fix it once or twice and enjoy a much better UI for a year or two---and then all I see is class="rounded-lg shadow-primary-400 m…

Thank you. HN delivers.

Re: Hacker News.love – 22 projects Hacker News didn't love

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Post by saberience »

If you have enough comments on literally ANY project, you will be able to say Reddit didn't love it, or Twitter didn't love it, or Hackernews didn't love it.

By that metric, X didn't love any project either, neither did Reddit.

You could also just as easily say Reddit loved all these projects and Hackernews loved all these projects.

That is, you can cherry pick positive comments about OpenClaw just as easily as you can cherry pick negative comments. Guess what, that's just how people work.

Re: Hacker News.love – 22 projects Hacker News didn't love

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Post by jasaldivara »

PennRobotics wrote: post #2

The entire site (including page margins) being a link to HN is an annoyance edit: also, the autoscroll thing The Tailwind CSS complaints aren't wrong even today; any time I want to apply a Stylus CSS to fix someone's janky site---particularly, weekly offers from area grocery stores, where I fix it once or twice and enjoy a much better UI for a year or two---and then all I see is class="rounded-lg shadow-primary-400 m…

Not just Tailwind; most of the listed criticism are still valid and relevant, even after those products had success.
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