Comment by square_usual
12 hours ago
I'm assuming this is vibe coded, because it's got a bunch of the usual tells, so to the people who do this: can you please stop making stupid scrolling presentations where I can see less than a slide of information at a time? Please tell your clanker to just write a blog post instead, or better yet, write it yourself.
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.
> 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
Do you know by which mechanism they recognize newly registered domains in order to block them?
It's a whois lookup, registrars provide that information.
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Next time they should run it by your company before they decide to create a new domain.
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These types of pages have been common long before vibe coding.
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.
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.
...or include a auto-scroll that will go directly to the next content slide (working with keyboard arrows).
Why not point your clanker at this and ask for it as a blog post?
Having read plenty of 1970's and 1980's sci-fi, I feel that clanker is the perfect term.
Completely disagree.
I appreciate this website. This format is intentional and serves a purpose.
It's great to see the small web in action.
Here’s a very short list of visual essays I like:
https://thenoisyroom.com/ 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
> 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.
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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.
An AI design is an imperfect hint that the copy may also be similarly generated.
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.
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.
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.
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?
> 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.
The New York Times generally does the "lots of data, text and graphs in a scrolling presentation" tastefully.
Any articles that demonstrate this? Haven't read the NYT in like 15 years. Only vaguely familiar with the data viz that Mike Bostock created while there, and only because he shared them on a defunct blocks site.
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
I mean if you want print views (reader mode in firefox works well if the dev took the time to structure everything semantically), definitely use the print functionality. Maybe I'm one of the last people that still makes print media queries, but I do find value in them especially since they're quite easy to make.
"please do things the way I want things to be done"