Re:Hacker News.love – 22 projects Hacker News didn't love
by Terretta on Monday February 23, 2026 @08:07AM
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"Everyone adopted it, therefore it won" can exist at the same time as "sometimes the crowd is not wise."
There is an increasing pre-chasm drip of past 5 years posts discovering modern HTML, CSS, and JS. They talk through the monster abstractions then show how to handle with the foundations at a fraction of code and future cost.
It'd be interesting to see this realization, however slowly it has started, catch on all at once.
Re:Hacker News.love – 22 projects Hacker News didn't love
by jasaldivara on Monday February 23, 2026 @06:25AM
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Not just Tailwind; most of the listed criticism are still valid and relevant, even after those products had success.
Re:Hacker News.love – 22 projects Hacker News didn't love
by benoliver999 on Monday February 23, 2026 @09:19AM
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In fact a lot of these helped shape our miserable dystopia. HN didn't see that coming
edit: also, the autoscroll thing
The Tailwind CSS complaints aren't wrong even today; any time I want to apply a Stylus CSS to fix someone's janky site---particularly, weekly offers from area grocery stores, where I fix it once or twice and enjoy a much better UI for a year or two---and then all I see is class="rounded-lg shadow-primary-400 my-4 md:px-4 bg-white py-20 pt-8 dark:border-gray-600" for every single element... it gets me seriously aggravated! It's a hassle to modify and a hassle to parse. I imagine it's only convenient to write/maintain because you use a separate tool and compile it into the garbage it becomes.