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visha1v 4mo ago
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grassfedgeek 4mo ago
Tired of you vibe coding detectives. Who the heck cares? If you don't use AI these days you're not smart. Why call it out, as if you caught them doing something unethical?
- slopinthebag 4mo ago
  Because a lot of us don’t want to see AI slop and it’s very useful to have that pointed out in the comments before I waste time clicking on the link and slowly coming to that realization myself.
- ceejayoz 4mo ago
  An AI design is an imperfect hint that the copy may also be similarly generated.
- SiempreViernes 4mo ago
  You know there's like an entire generation of devs raised hearing "copyright violations are theft, don't do it, it's band"? Unsurprisingly many of these people indeed think that when Anthropic and OpenAI does industrial scale copyright theft that's bad. Also, calling most of humanity "stupid" is pretty stupid.
shimman 4mo ago
eh, am very biased as I design similar sites but I honestly prefer these to what would be likely string of random social media posts. I like having relevant graphics stickied while text is displayed alongside it (assuming by blog post you mean the typical page-like top to bottom approach). edit: damn, if these designs are hated what modern approaches do people like? I feel like scroll based text is a relatively unexplored idea compared to the typical blog post. When it comes to web content, I vastly prefer web like interfaces that you can't reproduce in print.
- panzi 4mo ago
  While I'm not that against to such a web page (when viewing it on a monitor, not a phone) I'd say follow these points: • Don't hijack any browser functionality. Scrolling shall scroll the document, the end. • Don't scale something to the screen size, breaking zoom! Especially don't do it so that when zooming causes a different scroll position and then it all jumps to a different slide. WTF! • Make it accessible! If you want to make flashy graphics and animations make a game. That is not meant as to belittle games, I love games.
  - shimman 4mo ago
    I don't disagree with those, and I'm able to do them myself but what do you mean by this? "• Don't hijack any browser functionality. Scrolling shall scroll the document, the end." How would you consider the page hijacking scroll functionality? You can scroll down normally. There are animations based on scroll position, maybe that's what you meant?
    - panzi 4mo ago
      I mean the animated graphics and some other hackery going on when you try to zoom. It thinks to detect a different scroll position and jumps to a different slide. Also means you can't convert it to a PDF or print it, if you want to (though I wouldn't want to do that).
      - shimman 4mo ago
        Gotcha, interesting user flow. I've never manually tested that before. Adding it to the list. I do think the site is a very poor vibed implementation of this FWIW, another hour of manually tweaking some css/js would solve this issues.
- nemomarx 4mo ago
  I want it to be something you could reproduce in print, though. As close to what I'd get putting it in reader mode as possible. We've spent a long time optimizing the printed word, including pages with diagrams and illustrations on them. You don't need to reinvent the wheel for every blog
giancarlostoro 4mo ago
My corporate firewall blocked this due to it being a newly registered domain. So I can't even see it, I care less about "vibe coding" but it sounds like someone registered a domain just to get attention on their amazing take about why they think they're qualified to tell the world the future.
- wnmurphy 4mo ago
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- cactusplant7374 4mo ago
  Next time they should run it by your company before they decide to create a new domain.
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- dieselgate 4mo ago
  > My corporate firewall blocked this due to it being a newly registered domain. Was surprised mine did not - usually a toss up with HN links. I don't get reasoning just "NONCOMPLIANT ACTION". It is interesting to have a flag telling you the domain is new, though
- BLKNSLVR 4mo ago
  Do you know by which mechanism they recognize newly registered domains in order to block them?
  - greycol 4mo ago
    It's a whois lookup, registrars provide that information.
    - BLKNSLVR 4mo ago
      So a realtime whois lookup is performed when the request to the DNS server is made, and if the domain was only registered within X days/weeks, then return 0.0.0.0 (or other such blocking method). See, I've outbuilding tried compiling lists of newly registered domains to use as block lists, bit they're very large lists that my under-spec systems struggle to deal with. As such, I scaled back / shelved the project. Looks like Adguard DNS and NextDNS offer blocking NRDs as an option in their paid services. I shall be looking into this further.
quantified 4mo ago
Having read plenty of 1970's and 1980's sci-fi, I feel that clanker is the perfect term.
kylehotchkiss 4mo ago
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re-thc 4mo ago
> Please tell your clanker to just write a blog post instead You're right to push back on that. Let me get the details instead of hand waving.
root_axis 4mo ago
These types of pages have been common long before vibe coding.
- xmprt 4mo ago
  But now with vibecoding it feels like the default for articles to have fancy animation, rather than the exception. I guess that by having a fancier presentation it subconsciously legitimizes the content more so you're less likely to critique it as compared to a simple blog post where you pay more attention to the words and can realize that it's very surface level.
- square_usual 4mo ago
  Vibe coding has made them a lot more common. Before, you'd need to put a lot more effort into making a website that worked like this, and it wasn't worth it for a random post. Now this person's entire website is posts like this, and I've seen many more in the past few months.
KoolKat23 4mo ago
Completely disagree. I appreciate this website. This format is intentional and serves a purpose. It's great to see the small web in action.
- cousinbryce 4mo ago
  Here’s a very short list of visual essays I like: https://thenoisyroom.com/ https://thenoisyroom.com/ https://www.terrygodier.com/the-last-quiet-thing https://www.terrygodier.com/the-last-quiet-thing This one is good but the content doesn’t speak to me like the above. Would have been nice if OP had added a writing style suggestion to the prompt. Vanilla LLM text is sad
karolist 4mo ago
"please do things the way I want things to be done"
cousinbryce 4mo ago
Why not point your clanker at this and ask for it as a blog post?
dakial1 4mo ago
...or include a auto-scroll that will go directly to the next content slide (working with keyboard arrows).

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Tired of you vibe coding detectives. Who the heck cares? If you don't use AI these days you're not smart. Why call it out, as if you caught them doing something unethical?

slopinthebag 4mo ago
Because a lot of us don’t want to see AI slop and it’s very useful to have that pointed out in the comments before I waste time clicking on the link and slowly coming to that realization myself.
ceejayoz 4mo ago
An AI design is an imperfect hint that the copy may also be similarly generated.
SiempreViernes 4mo ago
You know there's like an entire generation of devs raised hearing "copyright violations are theft, don't do it, it's band"? Unsurprisingly many of these people indeed think that when Anthropic and OpenAI does industrial scale copyright theft that's bad. Also, calling most of humanity "stupid" is pretty stupid.

shimman 4mo ago

eh, am very biased as I design similar sites but I honestly prefer these to what would be likely string of random social media posts. I like having relevant graphics stickied while text is displayed alongside it (assuming by blog post you mean the typical page-like top to bottom approach). edit: damn, if these designs are hated what modern approaches do people like? I feel like scroll based text is a relatively unexplored idea compared to the typical blog post. When it comes to web content, I vastly prefer web like interfaces that you can't reproduce in print.

panzi 4mo ago
While I'm not that against to such a web page (when viewing it on a monitor, not a phone) I'd say follow these points: • Don't hijack any browser functionality. Scrolling shall scroll the document, the end. • Don't scale something to the screen size, breaking zoom! Especially don't do it so that when zooming causes a different scroll position and then it all jumps to a different slide. WTF! • Make it accessible! If you want to make flashy graphics and animations make a game. That is not meant as to belittle games, I love games.
- shimman 4mo ago
  I don't disagree with those, and I'm able to do them myself but what do you mean by this? "• Don't hijack any browser functionality. Scrolling shall scroll the document, the end." How would you consider the page hijacking scroll functionality? You can scroll down normally. There are animations based on scroll position, maybe that's what you meant?
  - panzi 4mo ago
    I mean the animated graphics and some other hackery going on when you try to zoom. It thinks to detect a different scroll position and jumps to a different slide. Also means you can't convert it to a PDF or print it, if you want to (though I wouldn't want to do that).
    - shimman 4mo ago
      Gotcha, interesting user flow. I've never manually tested that before. Adding it to the list. I do think the site is a very poor vibed implementation of this FWIW, another hour of manually tweaking some css/js would solve this issues.
nemomarx 4mo ago
I want it to be something you could reproduce in print, though. As close to what I'd get putting it in reader mode as possible. We've spent a long time optimizing the printed word, including pages with diagrams and illustrations on them. You don't need to reinvent the wheel for every blog

giancarlostoro 4mo ago

My corporate firewall blocked this due to it being a newly registered domain. So I can't even see it, I care less about "vibe coding" but it sounds like someone registered a domain just to get attention on their amazing take about why they think they're qualified to tell the world the future.

wnmurphy 4mo ago
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cactusplant7374 4mo ago
Next time they should run it by your company before they decide to create a new domain.
- deleted 4mo ago
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dieselgate 4mo ago
> My corporate firewall blocked this due to it being a newly registered domain. Was surprised mine did not - usually a toss up with HN links. I don't get reasoning just "NONCOMPLIANT ACTION". It is interesting to have a flag telling you the domain is new, though
BLKNSLVR 4mo ago
Do you know by which mechanism they recognize newly registered domains in order to block them?
- greycol 4mo ago
  It's a whois lookup, registrars provide that information.
  - BLKNSLVR 4mo ago
    So a realtime whois lookup is performed when the request to the DNS server is made, and if the domain was only registered within X days/weeks, then return 0.0.0.0 (or other such blocking method). See, I've outbuilding tried compiling lists of newly registered domains to use as block lists, bit they're very large lists that my under-spec systems struggle to deal with. As such, I scaled back / shelved the project. Looks like Adguard DNS and NextDNS offer blocking NRDs as an option in their paid services. I shall be looking into this further.

quantified 4mo ago

Having read plenty of 1970's and 1980's sci-fi, I feel that clanker is the perfect term.

kylehotchkiss 4mo ago

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re-thc 4mo ago

> Please tell your clanker to just write a blog post instead You're right to push back on that. Let me get the details instead of hand waving.

root_axis 4mo ago

These types of pages have been common long before vibe coding.

xmprt 4mo ago
But now with vibecoding it feels like the default for articles to have fancy animation, rather than the exception. I guess that by having a fancier presentation it subconsciously legitimizes the content more so you're less likely to critique it as compared to a simple blog post where you pay more attention to the words and can realize that it's very surface level.
square_usual 4mo ago
Vibe coding has made them a lot more common. Before, you'd need to put a lot more effort into making a website that worked like this, and it wasn't worth it for a random post. Now this person's entire website is posts like this, and I've seen many more in the past few months.

KoolKat23 4mo ago

Completely disagree. I appreciate this website. This format is intentional and serves a purpose. It's great to see the small web in action.

cousinbryce 4mo ago
Here’s a very short list of visual essays I like: https://thenoisyroom.com/ https://thenoisyroom.com/ https://www.terrygodier.com/the-last-quiet-thing https://www.terrygodier.com/the-last-quiet-thing This one is good but the content doesn’t speak to me like the above. Would have been nice if OP had added a writing style suggestion to the prompt. Vanilla LLM text is sad

karolist 4mo ago

"please do things the way I want things to be done"

cousinbryce 4mo ago

Why not point your clanker at this and ask for it as a blog post?

dakial1 4mo ago

...or include a auto-scroll that will go directly to the next content slide (working with keyboard arrows).