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Re:OpenBSD is so fast, I had to modify the program slightly ... by the_plus_one on Friday August 15, 2025 @03:45PM (#44916623)
Is it just me, or is there some kind of asteroid game shooting bullets at my cursor while I try to read this [1]? I hate to sound mean, but it's a bit distracting. I guess it's my fault for having JavaScript enabled.

[1]: https://flak.tedunangst.com/script.js

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Re:OpenBSD is so fast, I had to modify the program slightly ... by nomel on Friday August 15, 2025 @03:51PM (#44916658)
And, if it hits, your cursor disappears! I wish there was some explosion.
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Re:OpenBSD is so fast, I had to modify the program slightly ... by bigstrat2003 on Friday August 15, 2025 @04:24PM (#44916916)
No, it's the website's fault for doing stupid cutesy stuff that makes the page harder to read. Don't victim-blame yourself here.
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Re:OpenBSD is so fast, I had to modify the program slightly ... by nomel on Friday August 15, 2025 @07:59PM (#44918628)
You should ask for a refund!
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Re:OpenBSD is so fast, I had to modify the program slightly ... by stavros on Friday August 15, 2025 @05:27PM (#44917453)
I really don't understand this "everything must be 100% serious all the time". Why is it stupid?
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Re:OpenBSD is so fast, I had to modify the program slightly ... by apodik on Friday August 15, 2025 @05:43PM (#44917593)
I generally think stuff like that make the web much more interesting.

In this case it was distracting though.

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Re:OpenBSD is so fast, I had to modify the program slightly ... by Gualdrapo on Friday August 15, 2025 @05:43PM (#44917595)
The HN hivemind decries the lack of humanity and personality of the internet of nowadays but at the same time wants every website to be 100% text, no JS, no CSS because allegedly nobody needs CSS and, if you dare to do something remotely "fancy" with the layout, you have to build it with <table>s.
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Re:OpenBSD is so fast, I had to modify the program slightly ... by jackyard86 on Friday August 15, 2025 @09:45PM (#44919326)
This is not about "lack of humanity", but about violating fundamental UX rules such as hiding your cursor at random times. It's offensive.

You don't have to sacrifice usability while expressing personality.

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Re:OpenBSD is so fast, I had to modify the program slightly ... by extraisland on Saturday August 16, 2025 @12:30AM (#44920188)
I barely noticed it. The complaints I've read about it are making a mountain out of a molehill.
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Re:OpenBSD is so fast, I had to modify the program slightly ... by forbiddenlake on Friday August 15, 2025 @08:41PM (#44918895)
I didn't read the article because all the moving bits were too distracting. Something also turned my cursor invisible, which is rude.

Not sure anyone lost anything here, or anyone cares.

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Re:OpenBSD is so fast, I had to modify the program slightly ... by q3k on Friday August 15, 2025 @05:19PM (#44917385)
god forbid people have fun on the internet
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Re:OpenBSD is so fast, I had to modify the program slightly ... by lilyball on Friday August 15, 2025 @05:24PM (#44917423)
It's extremely distracting. I'm not normally one to have issues that require reduced motion, but the asteroids are almost distracting enough on their own, and the fact that it causes my cursor to vanish is a real accessibility issue. I didn't actually realize just how much I use my mouse cursor when reading stuff until now, partly as a fidget, partly as a controllable visual anchor as my eyes scan the page.
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Re:OpenBSD is so fast, I had to modify the program slightly ... by joemi on Friday August 15, 2025 @06:11PM (#44917842)
I actually can't read things on that site at all. I move my mouse around while reading, not necessarily near the words I'm currently reading, so when my mouse disappears it's haltingly distracting. In addition to that, the way the "game" visually interferes with the text that I'm trying to read makes it incredibly hard to focus on reading. These two things combine to make this site literally unreadable for me.

I don't get why people keep posting and upvoting articles from this user-hostile site.

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Re:OpenBSD is so fast, I had to modify the program slightly ... by tptacek on Friday August 15, 2025 @05:42PM (#44917581)
Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Because way more people have opinions about e.g. asteroid game scripts on web pages than have opinions on RCUs, these subthreads spread like kudzu.

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Re:OpenBSD is so fast, I had to modify the program slightly ... by ummonk on Friday August 15, 2025 @05:57PM (#44917715)
The described behavior sounds like significantly worse than tangential annoyance, and isn’t really a common occurrence even on modern user-hostile websites.
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Re:OpenBSD is so fast, I had to modify the program slightly ... by binarycrusader on Friday August 15, 2025 @06:28PM (#44918017)
I found it exceedingly difficult to read, so I ended up applying these ublock filter rules so I could read it:

  flak.tedunangst.com##.bl.shooter
  flak.tedunangst.com##.br.shooter
  flak.tedunangst.com##div.bullet
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Re:OpenBSD is so fast, I had to modify the program slightly ... by jackyard86 on Friday August 15, 2025 @10:10PM (#44919513)
It still hides your cursor though.
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Re:OpenBSD is so fast, I had to modify the program slightly ... by Jtsummers on Friday August 15, 2025 @06:43PM (#44918143)
He used to have a loading screen that did nothing if you have JS enabled in your browser, but no loading screen (which, again, did nothing) if you had JS disabled. I'm pretty sure it's meant to deliberately annoy, though this one is less annoying than the loading screen was.
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Re:OpenBSD is so fast, I had to modify the program slightly ... by ccapitalK on Saturday August 16, 2025 @01:10AM (#44920366)
It's sites like this that make me extremely grateful for firefox's reader mode.
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Re:OpenBSD is so fast, I had to modify the program slightly ... by snvzz on Saturday August 16, 2025 @09:36AM (#44923299)
clean mirror:

https://archive.is/wMECM

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