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Re: Scoring Show HN submissions for AI design patterns

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Apr 22, 2026, 5:07 PM UTC

moralestapia wrote: post #63

simonw wrote: post #8

I expect most side-projects are being built with AI-assistance now. Side projects are typically time constrained - if AI saves you time, why wouldn't you use it? They're also the ideal place to try out new AI tools that your professional work might not let you experiment with. (The headline of this piece doesn't really do it justice - it misuses "vibe coded" and fails to communicate that the substance of the post is…

I've been coding for 20 years now, almost every single afternoon. I've never met someone who has spent more time coding than me (although for sure such people exist). I love writing code, I consider it an art form. I don't mind spending days optimizing a function until the code is beautiful (at least to me). I also have dozens of projects in mind that I don't have time to go through; cue the meme of "I bought another…

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Re: Scoring Show HN submissions for AI design patterns

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Post by sd9 » Wed, Apr 22, 2026, 5:07 PM UTC

I kinda feel bad for the startups that were singled out here.

Re: Scoring Show HN submissions for AI design patterns

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Post by dang » Wed, Apr 22, 2026, 5:08 PM UTC

Is Show HN dead? No, but it's drowning - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47045804 - Feb 2026 (425 comments)

Re: Scoring Show HN submissions for AI design patterns

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Apr 22, 2026, 5:09 PM UTC

sowbug wrote: post #136

vunderba wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My biggest issue with LLM‑assisted webpages (Claude Code is especially egregious) is the lack of respect for basic web content accessibility guidelines. The number of dark‑mode sites I’ve seen where the text (and subtext) are various shades of dark brown or beige is just awful. For reference, you want a contrast ratio between the text and background of at least ~4:1 to be on the safe side. This isn't even that hard t…

Were/Are human-generated side projects better in this respect?

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Re: Scoring Show HN submissions for AI design patterns

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Post by ofjcihen » Wed, Apr 22, 2026, 5:09 PM UTC

> Is this bad? Not really, just uninspired. After all, validating a business idea was never about fancy design, and before the AI era, everything looked like Bootstrap.

In a sense it shows that the creator didn’t care enough to make their UI/presentation unique which causes some like me to question exactly how much effort they bothered to put in at all.

As part of our code security review we have a “sloppification” score. Higher numbers have been reliably usable by people like me as indicators of what to focus my pentesting efforts on.

Before the usual suspects get snarky: Does that mean AI only generates slop? No. But it is an indicator of effort and oversights.

Re: Scoring Show HN submissions for AI design patterns

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Post by dang » Wed, Apr 22, 2026, 5:10 PM UTC

  Heavy slop (5+ patterns) · 105 sites · 21%
  Mild (2–4) · 230 sites · 46%
  Clean (0–1) · 165 sites · 33%

Can we have a list of the "clean" ones please? Actually, if you give me a list of the IDs for all 3 categories, I'll make URLs for each that people can browse.

If the community feels that the division is useful, then we can maybe take you up on your offer to open-source the project, and perhaps find a way to use it on HN itself.

Re: Scoring Show HN submissions for AI design patterns

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Post by brianbcarter » Wed, Apr 22, 2026, 5:13 PM UTC

Well, I went straight to perp deep to ask how to ensure my cc sessions don't create websites that look like that. LOL.

But good thing is, it will now include those accessibility items, too. Personally I have misokinesia and migraines so I get it.

Here's what it found if you want to see: https://www.perplexity.ai/search/given-these-how-can-we-crea...

Re: Scoring Show HN submissions for AI design patterns

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Post by strogonoff » Wed, Apr 22, 2026, 5:22 PM UTC

simonw wrote: post #8

I expect most side-projects are being built with AI-assistance now. Side projects are typically time constrained - if AI saves you time, why wouldn't you use it? They're also the ideal place to try out new AI tools that your professional work might not let you experiment with. (The headline of this piece doesn't really do it justice - it misuses "vibe coded" and fails to communicate that the substance of the post is…

I don’t expect most side-projects to be built with LLMs now. I would expect LLM uptake to be higher in the workplace (where it’s mandatory and/or people operate on the “the ends justify the means” paradigm), but outside of that there’s a higher likelihood someone is doing it because they enjoy programming and problem-solving as a process, and why outsource something you like to a black box that will regurgitate you an average of volunteer contributions (often non-consensually obtained) for some corporation’s profit?

Re: Scoring Show HN submissions for AI design patterns

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Post by IanCal » Wed, Apr 22, 2026, 5:27 PM UTC

Planktonne wrote: post #152

IanCal wrote: post #112

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And even less than someone who wrote an interpreter for the script, less than someone who also chanted times tables while doing it. More thinking isn’t a simple good thing. Given a limit to how much thought I can give any specific task, adding extra work may mean less where it’s most useful.

That's not a good-faith argument; obviously we're talking about relevant thought, rather than distraction (which, in context, would be less thought).

It is a good faith argument, my point is exactly that the actual scripting was not part of the relevant thought any more than the interpreter would have been.

Re: Scoring Show HN submissions for AI design patterns

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Post by toraway » Wed, Apr 22, 2026, 5:29 PM UTC

sowbug wrote: post #136

vunderba wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My biggest issue with LLM‑assisted webpages (Claude Code is especially egregious) is the lack of respect for basic web content accessibility guidelines. The number of dark‑mode sites I’ve seen where the text (and subtext) are various shades of dark brown or beige is just awful. For reference, you want a contrast ratio between the text and background of at least ~4:1 to be on the safe side. This isn't even that hard t…

Were/Are human-generated side projects better in this respect?

The "default" light-mode look of most popular UI frameworks wouldn't have that same issue unless you put a lot of time into customizing your own styling, which most side projects wouldn't bother with (unless that look and feel was the point of the project). There certainly would be poor UI decisions but more likely in layout/placement/navigation, which could still be problematic for accessibility but probably not in a "is this color scheme even readable" kind of way.

Plus given time constraints, they generally wouldn't try to cram huge amounts of tiny text into every visible inch of the page without some intentional reason to do so (using that somewhat hard to read console-ish font Claude seems to love as a default).

Maybe the dark mode/terminal font/high text density look presents as "cool looking" at first glance for one-shotting evals so they've all converged on it. But to OP's point, this seems like a solvable (or at least mitigable) issue if models or harnesses were concerned about it.