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157 points rglover 3 hours ago 53 comments

sans_souse 2 hours ago | parent

I found myself inside a simulation simulating simulations of a simulation.

And it was good.

c7b 2 hours ago | parent

Fyi, autoplays sound. Generally an unacceptable UI decision imho.

__m 2 hours ago | parent

There is a button ”Enter muted” right below enter

c7b 2 hours ago | parent

I didn't click anything, the sound just started playing while there was a loading animation

Benjamin_Dobell 2 hours ago | parent

What browser are you using? IE6?

Just kidding. But you must have clicked somewhere. Audio autoplay hasn't been a thing on the web for years (thankfully).

bowsamic 2 hours ago | parent

It auto played for me in iOS Safari with no interaction

pletnes 1 hour ago | parent

Not for me. So there’s that. But tapping anywhere on screen does start the sound.

radiospiel 1 hour ago | parent

When you tap the screen on ipad while the page still loads (and doesnt show anything), it plays sound before you click enter

flohofwoe 56 minutes ago | parent

Hmm, here (macOS + Chrome) it starts with 'Sound off', says even so in the bottom right corner.

tower-shield 2 hours ago | parent

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codetiger 2 hours ago | parent

Electron was too good when I first saw it, and gave the "Javascript everywhere" for the desktop apps. Then quickly felt like a bloatware.

nxpnsv 2 hours ago | parent

Like it or not, it was a significant achievement

arjie 2 hours ago | parent

It is a marvelous thing. A beautiful app platform. Suddenly, one day, I was no longer Linux user without app. Linux app was standard. Everybody has Linux app. I had dual-boot Linux computer to play Valorant on Windows and to live normal life on Linux. And I use Mac at work. And it is all glorious because I no longer think about which is which. And there are people who are saying it is not amazing, but it is. I can hit Ctrl-R and the application refreshes. What an astounding tool.

For me the great app platforms:

* the terminal

* the iPhone/Android

* the web

And suddenly, the web is brought to the desktop and it is cross-platform. Everything is here on my Linux. It is the Year of the Linux Desktop and everyone is complaining about web platform. But it is web platform that has brought it here. Praise be the forces that made this happen. This man has a great website, and if he has made Electron then he is always welcome to me.

zelphirkalt 48 minutes ago | parent

Now we got desktop (electron) apps blocking our VPNs via friggin cloudflare. I have come to absolutely loath cloudflare's BS.

this_self 2 hours ago | parent

I can’t find anything better than Electron/Tauri for building cross-platform desktop apps. The browser engine is quite efficient and performant for building complex interfaces

zzzoom 2 hours ago | parent

You have an interesting definition of "efficient and performant".

flohofwoe 1 hour ago | parent

Native apps are not automatically more responsive or less bloated. Look at Xcode or Visual Studio vs VSCode. Performance is mainly the result of how much effort you want to put into optimization.

vovavili 57 minutes ago | parent

The core of Electron can be made quite efficient and performant. It's just that commercial app developers have few incentives to dedicate significant time and effort towards optimization when modern PCs are this powerful:

https://blog.vaxry.net/articles/2025-electronAintBad

jeroenhd 50 minutes ago | parent

You're missing the "for building complex interfaces" part. I would extend that to "for building complex interfaces with even basic accessibility features" though.

And for what it's worth, Tauri and to a lesser extent Electron is actually quite efficient. It looks bloated as hell because it allocates all kinds of RAM pages it doesn't really use in case it needs to JIT extensively (which usually get compressed or swapped out anyway), but by default it's a decent UI framework.

Tauri takes what, maybe 50MiB of RAM? It's not the most efficient way, but it's as efficient as a usable cross-platform framework gets these days. Electron is four times that, which is still better than the alternative on Linux (which was running the Windows application on Wine before Electron came along).

Telegram is written in native Qt and takes about 1750MiB of RAM on my machine to show me a chat screen. The framework isn't the issue here.

gumby 54 minutes ago | parent

Certainly the user does not feel the same.

luis_cho 1 hour ago | parent

Electron might be a good example of worse is better.

bronlund 1 hour ago | parent

To be fair; Node is involved in this too.

rbbydotdev 50 minutes ago | parent

if (when) a better solution arises it will be the dominant solution. long live electron

tomhow 44 minutes ago | parent

Please post generic snarky swipes like this on HN. The guidelines make it clear we're trying for something better here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

joker99 2 hours ago | parent

Ah, the “good“ old times of interactive flash websites.

est 2 hours ago | parent

In retrospective

https://web.archive.org/web/20170615060422/https://www.apple...

> In addition, Flash has not performed well on mobile devices

H5 animations performs much worse on all devices.

Flash animations like Felix's can run well on a Pentium III processor with 64MB memory.

jeroenhd 45 minutes ago | parent

I disagree, Flash was a real battery sucker on Android. Native CSS animations were usually smooth in Chrome; Firefox still hasn't caught up entirely on that front I feel.

Feeding animation frames through JS rather than letting the browser do its job does take a toll, but Flash freezing the entire tab while the browser plugin initialized is something I've resented the moment HTML5 came along.

In the age of the Pentium III, Flash was state of the art, but it's been a couple of decades since then.

grebc 23 minutes ago | parent

I don’t know about a III but Flash was good in the early/mid 2000’s while I was attending university.

Certainly was 10x better than what HTML was providing at the time, HTML really only jumped forward in this department when Steve banned it on iOS.

I don’t miss it, however my friend at uni made some wicked animations in the adobe Flash editor, whatever it was called. He should’ve went onto animation etc but stuck to programming.

patrick_rtk 2 hours ago | parent

super nice website bringing to old time

fuddle 2 hours ago | parent

That's pretty neat.

moecables 2 hours ago | parent

i like it

2845486124 1 hour ago | parent

I like this, is open source?

transitivebs 43 minutes ago | parent

guide to how it was created: https://felixrieseberg.com/made-by-mechanical-means/

nredd 1 hour ago | parent

that's slick as hell

dieter37 1 hour ago | parent

Excellent work, Claude.

startakovsky1 1 hour ago | parent

Can we reverse engineer the prompt? Can we reverse engineer the meta prompt? Can we reverse engineer the meta^n prompt?

lioeters 1 hour ago | parent

Better yet, can we reverse engineer the engineer?

transitivebs 44 minutes ago | parent

he wrote in-depth about how it was created https://felixrieseberg.com/made-by-mechanical-means/

lifeisloving 1 hour ago | parent

Im going to port it to Rust

bigcheese1144 1 hour ago | parent

W.o.W.!

the scary thing is that I love this slightly reactionary nostalgic design - mattering the content.

It probably does tell more about me than any technology or approach discussed here.

grrr...

einrealist 1 hour ago | parent

Is he even happy? The website mood is so sad.

ge96 1 hour ago | parent

Well he did use the penguin that walks off into oblivion

gilgoomesh 1 hour ago | parent

It feels like it's trying to evoke Bioshock vibes or a similar retro-punk dystopia.

kmoser 1 hour ago | parent

The stark landscape and accented voiceover seem to be inspired by the documentary Happy People: A Year in the Taiga by Werner Herzog: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psnY17CImaQ

swiftcoder 1 hour ago | parent

It's just themed on a Werner Herzog documentary (which are inherently pretty gloomy). But also, who can say for sure

flohofwoe 59 minutes ago | parent

Interesting, I find the 'mood' very cozy and welcoming. There's nothing nicer than a warm, dimly lit room with a computer (or in this case VCR) when it's cold and rainy outside :)

Aldipower 22 minutes ago | parent

You are the prototype of the jealous HN commenter.

kaeruct 1 hour ago | parent

Feels so strange to recognize what's out the window. I hope this cannot be used to find where they live!

jabron 5 minutes ago | parent

It's the view off the Warschauer Bridge in Berlin, nobody actually lives there.

transitivebs 44 minutes ago | parent

an in-depth post about how he made it: https://felixrieseberg.com/made-by-mechanical-means/

extremely fascinating details in here

illwrks 40 minutes ago | parent

I've seen a several AI-coded WebGL examples... I wonder if AI will mean the return of the Flash-style interactive websites.

sudo-bendg 36 minutes ago | parent

So good man

jansan 20 minutes ago | parent

The view from his window is from Warschauer Brücke in Berlin Friedrichshain or nearby. I have fond memories living there and working on my software day and night.

I love the website, but one thing scares me in his list of projects:

    08 Clippy   2025-now