What kind of vibecoded website is this?

- the worst infinite scroll I've ever seen making it impossible to access the footer

- the title tag doesn't seem to work properly (just shows the URL in the tab title, on Chrome and Firefox)

- 2007-style keyword stuffing in meta keywords

- the entire page is client-side react with a completely empty body?

The agency that built it even proudly states on their website that they vibecode everything: https://gradientnoise.com/

EDIT: Turns out, the articles are mostly AI-generated as well? https://blog.ryanmerket.com/how-i-built-runtimewire-a-one-pe...

> And this is the gate that lets me sleep: a story only auto-publishes if the editor says PASS, the risk score is comfortably low, a hero image exists, and it has at least one source

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plaguuuuuu 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I've read more than a handful of AI-generated articles on HN recently. The last one even had a fake author with a fake face. despite the site insisting it had human editors and reviews. The web property was created by a marketing/AI agency from (AFAIK) a European country with zero employees credentialed to edit hard science news articles, also zero employees with English names and faces like the supposed author.

The interslop is real. Simulacra and simulation.

	▲	ffsm8 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The dead Internet theory is long established at this point

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patates 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> the worst infinite scroll I've ever seen making it impossible to access the footer

Let's be fair, it's possible to reach the footer! You keep pressing the end key for like a minute or two and 665 requests (with embedded base64 encoded images and all) later, you have your footer.

So saying it's possible to reach the footer would be technically correct - the best kind of correct!

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albert_e 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I "love" infinite scroll on websites where important links like finding a way to contact customer support for help is only in the footer that you can never reach.

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Walf 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

But the hero image is an AI homage to cute paper-craft, to remind us that people cannot or will not put in that level of effort any more, so it's okay!

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ryanmerket an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

No agency. Just a one man shop. What kind of vibecoded website is this? It's a Replit built site along wtih my 20 years of experience building websites from scratch. It was launched this month, so it's a bit rough around the edges, but we're off to a great start.

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mujib77 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

works fine on the phone

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kuschku 2 hours ago | parent [-]

I can't confirm that.

Mobile Chrome can't show a tab title either https://i.k8r.eu/3vVCTQ.png

And the infinite scroll causes the page to constantly jump back up, again preventing me from accessing the footer

And of course with JS disabled you get nothing at all (which affects RSS readers, kindle devices, etc)

	▲	ryanmerket 2 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		rss is fine /rss infinite scroll fixed, nojs issues fixed, and title fixed. thanks for helping QA.
	▲	mujib77 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Now i see the problem yeah same on my device to

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ilreb 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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kuschku 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Because I didn't read that thread? Last week I was at a conference, so I spent relatively little time on HN.

That said, I likely wouldn't have read that thread even today. I prefer engaging more deeply with fewer stories.

Another new AI benchmark result is of little interest to me, in contrast to a story about Microsoft stalling or even partially reversing the GitHub Azure migration.

	▲	amazingman 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It's a bot

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palmotea 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48440448 this had >300 upvotes with a link from runtimewire.com and you didn't even criticize it then. why now?

There are so many bad and false assumptions baked into your short comment, it's hard to begin. For instance: in what world does someone have provide justification for their critique of an AI-written website, because they didn't happen to respond to some previous post?

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ryanmerket 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

almost every news website is written primarily by AI these days with a human editor to review...

	▲	palmotea an hour ago \| parent [-]
		> almost every news website is written primarily by AI these days with a human editor to review... Source? Or is that just self-justifying speculation?

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not_kurt_godel 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

main character syndrome

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MallocVoidstar 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Do you think everyone on HN sees every submission?