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What kind of vibecoded website is this? - the worst infinite scroll I've ever seen making it impossible to access the footer - the title tag doesn't seem to w

by kuschku 4mo ago

What kind of vibecoded website is this? - the worst infinite scroll I've ever seen making it impossible to access the footer - the title tag doesn't seem to work properly (just shows the URL in the tab title, on Chrome and Firefox) - 2007-style keyword stuffing in meta keywords - the entire page is client-side react with a completely empty body? The agency that built it even proudly states on their website that they vibecode everything: https://gradientnoise.com/ https://gradientnoise.com/ EDIT: Turns out, the articles are mostly AI-generated as well? https://blog.ryanmerket.com/how-i-built-runtimewire-a-one-person-mostly-autonomous-ai-newsroom-994319fd76da https://blog.ryanmerket.com/how-i-built-runtimewire-a-one-pe... > And this is the gate that lets me sleep: a story only auto-publishes if the editor says PASS, the risk score is comfortably low, a hero image exists, and it has at least one source

Walf 4mo ago
But the hero image is an AI homage to cute paper-craft, to remind us that people cannot or will not put in that level of effort any more, so it's okay!
ilreb 4mo ago
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- MallocVoidstar 4mo ago
  Do you think everyone on HN sees every submission?
- palmotea 4mo ago
  > https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48440448 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48440448 this had >300 upvotes with a link from runtimewire.com and you didn't even criticize it then. why now? There are so many bad and false assumptions baked into your short comment, it's hard to begin. For instance: in what world does someone have provide justification for their critique of an AI-written website, because they didn't happen to respond to some previous post?
  - not_kurt_godel 4mo ago
    main character syndrome
  - ryanmerket 4mo ago
    almost every news website is written primarily by AI these days with a human editor to review...
    - palmotea 4mo ago
      > almost every news website is written primarily by AI these days with a human editor to review... Source? Or is that just self-justifying speculation?
    - kuschku 4mo ago
      That's not even close to the truth, there's a lot more manual work that still goes into news than you'd think. And even if it were true, how would that justify making the situation worse? We should be doing something to make the world a better place instead.
- kuschku 4mo ago
  Because I didn't read that thread? Last week I was at a conference, so I spent relatively little time on HN. That said, I likely wouldn't have read that thread even today. I prefer engaging more deeply with fewer stories. Another new AI benchmark result is of little interest to me, in contrast to a story about Microsoft stalling or even partially reversing the GitHub Azure migration.
  - amazingman 4mo ago
    It's a bot
    - ilreb 4mo ago
      says a loser with low karma who have been lurking in hn comments for more than a decade
mujib77 4mo ago
works fine on the phone
- kuschku 4mo ago
  I can't confirm that. Mobile Chrome can't show a tab title either https://i.k8r.eu/3vVCTQ.png https://i.k8r.eu/3vVCTQ.png And the infinite scroll causes the page to constantly jump back up, again preventing me from accessing the footer And of course with JS disabled you get nothing at all (which affects RSS readers, kindle devices, etc)
  - mujib77 4mo ago
    Now i see the problem yeah same on my device to
  - ryanmerket 4mo ago
    rss is fine /rss infinite scroll fixed, nojs issues fixed, and title fixed. thanks for helping QA.
    - kuschku 4mo ago
      Typically, you'd want to be able to fetch the full article with your RSS reader, which obviously doesn't work with client side rendering.
plaguuuuuu 4mo ago
I've read more than a handful of AI-generated articles on HN recently. The last one even had a fake author with a fake face. despite the site insisting it had human editors and reviews. The web property was created by a marketing/AI agency from (AFAIK) a European country with zero employees credentialed to edit hard science news articles, also zero employees with English names and faces like the supposed author. The interslop is real. Simulacra and simulation.
- ffsm8 4mo ago
  The dead Internet theory is long established at this point
patates 4mo ago
> the worst infinite scroll I've ever seen making it impossible to access the footer Let's be fair, it's possible to reach the footer! You keep pressing the end key for like a minute or two and 665 requests (with embedded base64 encoded images and all) later, you have your footer. So saying it's possible to reach the footer would be technically correct - the best kind of correct!
albert_e 4mo ago
I "love" infinite scroll on websites where important links like finding a way to contact customer support for help is only in the footer that you can never reach.
ryanmerket 4mo ago
No agency. Just a one man shop. What kind of vibecoded website is this? It's a Replit built site along wtih my 20 years of experience building websites from scratch. It was launched this month, so it's a bit rough around the edges, but we're off to a great start.
jordemort 4mo ago
yeah, pointless AI-generated header image --> close tab

by kuschku 4mo ago

Walf 4mo ago

But the hero image is an AI homage to cute paper-craft, to remind us that people cannot or will not put in that level of effort any more, so it's okay!

ilreb 4mo ago

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MallocVoidstar 4mo ago
Do you think everyone on HN sees every submission?
palmotea 4mo ago
> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48440448 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48440448 this had >300 upvotes with a link from runtimewire.com and you didn't even criticize it then. why now? There are so many bad and false assumptions baked into your short comment, it's hard to begin. For instance: in what world does someone have provide justification for their critique of an AI-written website, because they didn't happen to respond to some previous post?
- not_kurt_godel 4mo ago
  main character syndrome
- ryanmerket 4mo ago
  almost every news website is written primarily by AI these days with a human editor to review...
  - palmotea 4mo ago
    > almost every news website is written primarily by AI these days with a human editor to review... Source? Or is that just self-justifying speculation?
  - kuschku 4mo ago
    That's not even close to the truth, there's a lot more manual work that still goes into news than you'd think. And even if it were true, how would that justify making the situation worse? We should be doing something to make the world a better place instead.
kuschku 4mo ago
Because I didn't read that thread? Last week I was at a conference, so I spent relatively little time on HN. That said, I likely wouldn't have read that thread even today. I prefer engaging more deeply with fewer stories. Another new AI benchmark result is of little interest to me, in contrast to a story about Microsoft stalling or even partially reversing the GitHub Azure migration.
- amazingman 4mo ago
  It's a bot
  - ilreb 4mo ago
    says a loser with low karma who have been lurking in hn comments for more than a decade

mujib77 4mo ago

works fine on the phone

kuschku 4mo ago
I can't confirm that. Mobile Chrome can't show a tab title either https://i.k8r.eu/3vVCTQ.png https://i.k8r.eu/3vVCTQ.png And the infinite scroll causes the page to constantly jump back up, again preventing me from accessing the footer And of course with JS disabled you get nothing at all (which affects RSS readers, kindle devices, etc)
- mujib77 4mo ago
  Now i see the problem yeah same on my device to
- ryanmerket 4mo ago
  rss is fine /rss infinite scroll fixed, nojs issues fixed, and title fixed. thanks for helping QA.
  - kuschku 4mo ago
    Typically, you'd want to be able to fetch the full article with your RSS reader, which obviously doesn't work with client side rendering.

plaguuuuuu 4mo ago

I've read more than a handful of AI-generated articles on HN recently. The last one even had a fake author with a fake face. despite the site insisting it had human editors and reviews. The web property was created by a marketing/AI agency from (AFAIK) a European country with zero employees credentialed to edit hard science news articles, also zero employees with English names and faces like the supposed author. The interslop is real. Simulacra and simulation.

ffsm8 4mo ago
The dead Internet theory is long established at this point

patates 4mo ago

> the worst infinite scroll I've ever seen making it impossible to access the footer Let's be fair, it's possible to reach the footer! You keep pressing the end key for like a minute or two and 665 requests (with embedded base64 encoded images and all) later, you have your footer. So saying it's possible to reach the footer would be technically correct - the best kind of correct!

albert_e 4mo ago

I "love" infinite scroll on websites where important links like finding a way to contact customer support for help is only in the footer that you can never reach.

ryanmerket 4mo ago

No agency. Just a one man shop. What kind of vibecoded website is this? It's a Replit built site along wtih my 20 years of experience building websites from scratch. It was launched this month, so it's a bit rough around the edges, but we're off to a great start.

jordemort 4mo ago

yeah, pointless AI-generated header image --> close tab