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I appreciate the minimalist HN aesthetic, but without some context I'm not willing to click a mystery link to "Tender Lovemaking dot com".
by driggs 20d ago
I appreciate the minimalist HN aesthetic, but without some context I'm not willing to click a mystery link to "Tender Lovemaking dot com".
- layer8 20d agoYou get some context by clicking on the “(tenderlovemaking.com)” in parentheses after the title.
- rietta 20d agoThe site is safe. It has been a trademark of Aaron Patterson a core Ruby on Rails contributor for decades.
- wing-_-nuts 20d agoThis made me laugh. I too, browse like corporate security is sitting at my desk.
- ultrarunner 20d agoPretty incredible how much humans can be conditioned, isn’t it?
- bliteben 20d agoI miss when the internet was fun
- SenHeng 20d agoBased on the thumbnail I think it’s actually tenderlove making dot com, though I agree with your sentiment.
- madaxe_again 20d agoOh but you’ll go to expert sex change dot com?
- pelagicAustral 20d agoFirefox has got some kind of feature to take a peek at at a link by hovering or something... Now I understand the usecase.
- suslik 20d ago… a feature which, at least for me, is rendered almost entirely useless by massive cookie banners that always cover the entire field of view of the hover. But, surprisingly, not in this specific case.
- InitialLastName 20d agoPresumably the browser still has to fetch the page in that case, right? From a "surveilled net traffic" perspective, how is that different than clicking the link?
- bigmattystyles 20d agoFrom an infosec/networking stand point, aren’t still actively loading the site? Whether it’s in a preview window or not?
- AdamH12113 20d agoIt's about OpenAI's RubyGems hack. Totally safe for work.
- emerongi 20d agoWhat’s with the fear of tender lovemaking? Not your thing?
- saxonww 20d agoDon't worry! It's actually "Tenderlove Making," going by how the site header is constructed. Definitely a maker/hacker site, and not whatever you were thinking. Hope this allays your concern.
- BowBun 20d agoYou should learn who the author is, then. Part of learning about our ecosystem.
- wiremine 20d agoIt's the personal blog for a well-known Rubyist (i.e., a person who programs in the Ruby programming language). Rubyists teld to be a bit more colorful than your typical software developer (in a good way... most of the time).
- marcosdumay 20d agoWhat kind of esthetic alteration would make you more comfortable clicking on that link?
- ecshafer 20d agoIts the personal blog of https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tenderlove https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tenderlove aka Aaron Patterson, core member of Ruby and Ruby on Rails.
- tenderlove 20d agoYou can use this link instead: https://tenderlove.dev/2026/09/11/what-a-time-to-be-alive/ https://tenderlove.dev/2026/09/11/what-a-time-to-be-alive/ Hope that helps!