On 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 probably just need a mini swarm for that
Hacker News.love – 22 projects Hacker News didn't love
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#62“I don’t find their actual search engine very useful at all.” (me in 2009) I'm quoted on here so I thought I should give an update! :-) I still don't think DDG was very useful in 2009. A noble idea, but the quality wasn't there for the searches I did. In the past several years, I've found it to give Google a good run for its money, both through DDG's index getting better and Google's getting worse. I'm delighted they…
Same, I tried DDG a bunch of times over the years, maybe once every 2 years or so, but never got to the point where it felt it could replace Google.
Tried Kagi when it launched, and I'm not sure if it was because Google had deteriorated so much at that point, or Kagi was simply better, but I got way better results in Kagi, and still do. Kagi ended up being what I thought DDG was aiming for, but was never able to reach.
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#63The 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…
"Everyone adopted it, therefore it won" can exist at the same time as "sometimes the crowd is not wise."
There is an increasing pre-chasm drip over past 5 years posts discovering modern HTML, CSS, and JS. They talk through the monster abstractions then show how to handle with the foundations at a fraction of code and future cost.
It'd be interesting to see this realization, however slowly it has started, catch on all at once.
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#64Kind 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 gues…
Honestly, if every HN thread was just filled with positivity it would make this just a worthless circlejerk. No one would bother reading the comments because we'd already know what they say.
I rely on comments for giving me a more realistic picture of something. I'm not saying OP should change their site to do this, but asking an LLM to generate a thread consensus/sentiment would be more honest. And for every Dropbox there's a WeWork, which got slated here for being absolutely delusional.
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#65Good site; frequently see comments on here that sound like those on the site
Granted, popularity doesn't prove such projects are good projects and some criticism might be otherwise justified
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#66“I don’t find their actual search engine very useful at all.” (me in 2009) I'm quoted on here so I thought I should give an update! :-) I still don't think DDG was very useful in 2009. A noble idea, but the quality wasn't there for the searches I did. In the past several years, I've found it to give Google a good run for its money, both through DDG's index getting better and Google's getting worse. I'm delighted they…
I do also think its name _has_ held it back.
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#67the autoscroll is killing me. I can't really read the "what happened" blurb at the end. I guess my phone is too narrow
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#68The “summary” under GitHub:
> The opening comment literally couldn’t see the point. GitHub was perceived as ‘just a git host’ — the social layer, the network effects, the open source ecosystem it would enable were all invisible.
I don’t mind using LLMs to write and summarize. But I do wish creators would at least do an editorial pass of their own just so everything wasn’t the same writing as everything.
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#69the autoscroll is killing me. I can't really read the "what happened" blurb at the end. I guess my phone is too narrow
It is indeed awful.
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#70> “I think you’d be a damned fool to invest in this technology for any serious project. Right now this is a toy.”
This comment about Typescript was correct. Typescript had a major fundamental re-write fairly early on in it's history.
This quoted comment was written before Typescript even had Generics, let alone Union types.