I dare to disagree. While learning about Cicadas and prime numbers is ok, its application to "enliven backgrounds" seems very futile to me. Hacking means breaki

I dare to disagree. While learning about Cicadas and prime numbers is ok, its application to "enliven backgrounds" seems very futile to me. Hacking means breaking the rules, crack the black box, find new game changing ways to do things that will prove useful for a lot of people. Hacking is not about finding slightly vain design tricks. In summary, this article is far from what I would upvote. A good indicator of the relative weakness of it is the few interesting comment it triggered. In fact, some month ago I would come to HN, and read the comments, and find a lot of savoury meat for my curiosity hunger, without even bothering to get check the original article that was only the starting point of high-level exchanges of views on the matter. PS: Recent articles seem to focus on visual design (pixels and colors), which is very surprising on a website that is so obviously anti-design...