Here's a project that Hacker News absolutely loved but afaict not much came from it:
Hacker News.love – 22 projects Hacker News didn't love
101–110 of 158 posts
Re: Hacker News.love – 22 projects Hacker News didn't love
#102On my pixel 6, viewing on Firefox, the weird scroll snap system prevents me from actually being able to click the original Bitcoin post. I can see it as I pull the web page upward but the page can never settle with it present in the viewport. What I failed to realize is that most viewers of web pages don't care they are more smitten by the love tld and nice font family. The link to og content can be clicked by claw p…
could you try now?
Re: Hacker News.love – 22 projects Hacker News didn't love
#103Some of those comments are completely fair: > Dropbox: I think competitors can duplicate Dropbox’s nice front end That’s exactly what happened. > Bitcoin: “Well this is an exceptionally cute idea, but there is absolutely no way that anyone is going to have any faith in this currency.” This is still true even now > DDG: “I can’t ever see anyone saying ‘just duckduckgo it.’ The name just sounds silly. It makes me think…
The obnoxious hijacking of the scrolling is present on desktop too. Can't read the small box because it'll scroll to the next project. Why?
Re: Hacker News.love – 22 projects Hacker News didn't love
#104Earlier quoted context omitted.
Back before Google was huge, no-one used any of the other popular search engine names as a synonym for 'searched the world wide web'. We didn't say "I Yahoo!'d for recipes", or "I Excited the latest film releases". We can go back.
They did "Ask Jeeves about" it.
Around the same time I do distinctly remember "babelfish it" for translations too.
Re: Hacker News.love – 22 projects Hacker News didn't love
#105If the author can read this, no mention of Bun being bought out by Anthropic, which is a big win for the project. ;) https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-acquires-bun-as-cla...
good one! will add
Re: Hacker News.love – 22 projects Hacker News didn't love
#106What an infuriating website. I know complaining about bad websites is frowned upon, but they are actively making it hard to read and click through the links, yet that is the entire service. What is the point of keeping this online if a HN comment or a README offers a superior product? ;/
fixed!
Re: Hacker News.love – 22 projects Hacker News didn't love
#107favicon is still the default nextjs one ._.
Re: Hacker News.love – 22 projects Hacker News didn't love
#108The scroll feels like reading a book on the wind.
oops, should be fixed
Re: Hacker News.love – 22 projects Hacker News didn't love
#109The 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…
[deleted]
Re: Hacker News.love – 22 projects Hacker News didn't love
#110Some of those comments are completely fair: > Dropbox: I think competitors can duplicate Dropbox’s nice front end That’s exactly what happened. > Bitcoin: “Well this is an exceptionally cute idea, but there is absolutely no way that anyone is going to have any faith in this currency.” This is still true even now > DDG: “I can’t ever see anyone saying ‘just duckduckgo it.’ The name just sounds silly. It makes me think…
Yeah, I find the "we showed those idiots!" attitude kinda dumb when a lot of these concerns are completely real and valid. Like all of the comments about Tailwind are just "hey this is not a great way to do things"; it becoming popular doesn't disprove that. And for Warp, "No one should use a for-profit terminal emulator, especially one created by a VC-backed startup, full stop." -- I still agree with this!
Also the claims they make about the success of some of these technologies are very dubious. TypeScript is definitely not used by 80% of JavaScript developers, not even close. I know your average WordPress or Drupal developer is not using a compiled language. Perhaps it is used by 80% of GitHub repositories, but there is a lot of code that is not posted to GitHub.
And P.S. the scroll hijacking is no less annoying on desktop.