I remember reading the newspaper in the break room and at lunch. About 2013 or so. That's all their was. Well, for me, because I was a late smartphone adopter.

I kind of lump in "internet" (late 90s) with "internet in everyone's pockets at all times". But there was a fairly large gap there. Especially when you consider the limits of 3 and even 4g.

Can we add “I think it sounds like AI writing” to the list of off topic tangential annoyances? Clicking into an HN thread and having the top comment being about em dashes or something is obnoxious.

Notably, I read this on both my iphone and mac (LG Ultrafine 5k). It is was enjoyable to read in a fun way on my phone, it did not really bug me as a fun blog font. I was more excited about the theme/design than the content. But on my main screen, which is hi res, it _did_ bug my eyes quite a bit. Interesting.

Good dang, you're right but the annoyance with this one is far from tangential or "common"...

If the site used a black font over black background it would be more readable as I could at least select the text and read it.

To add insult to injury, the site's name flashes. I'd say that the ONE interesting thing about this link is exactly how exotically bad the presentation is!

I think people may disagree with you on what constitutes a tangential annoyance. Is there any point at which the format is, in fact, a legitimate annoyance?

What's the point in linking unreadable website? I just opened it, saisd "Jesus!" and immediately closed it, I like my eyes. People should just flag unereable mess like this.

I'm not sure there's always a more efficient way to find that same information. If you already have a question, sure, you can look for an answer. Sometimes you stumble across a post about something you hadn't even thought to look into, though. I think that's part of what he's talking about when he mentions finding things that changed his life.

Also, it's not addiction to information, it's addiction to entertainment. Looking for interesting/fun things is a form of entertainment.

This is like saying, "I'm not addicted to smoking, I'm addicted to the happiness cigarettes give me."

No, it's like saying you're addicted to nicotine or routine or a break with people, because that's what cigarettes give you and there are other sources of that.

It is possible to get information from other sources just as it is possible to get nicotine or a break with people from other sources. Because of this your metaphor breaks down.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dopamine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reward_system

Moreover, the "content" isn't always information. It can be informative and it can be news you need to know about. But it's often garbage, disinformation and the information analogue of empty calories in food.

There’s so much more information to consume than news — or worse, tech news. Every day I find new things to learn about physics, history, geology, paleontology, biology… and not just things we discovered today, but decades and centuries worth of findings.

There is so much more to learn than any one person could even skim in their lifetime, even if you ignore absolutely all news. And heck yeah, it’s addictive.

>like a wasteful software program "polling" these data sources hoping that something really important will surface

This is me on eBay :)

makes me think of https://accelareader.com/

Roughly I think is probably in the right direction

You can read a lot of the newspaper and still finish by the end of breakfast.

It isn't personalized, so many sections aren't of much interest.

Well... https://aeon.co/essays/contagion-poison-trigger-books-have-a...

and: https://archive.org/details/americannervousn00bearuoft/page/... - one note on this, Beard blamed nervous exhaustion on steam power, the periodical press, the telegraph, the sciences, and uh... the mental activity of women... This excerpt for a tl;dr: https://english.web.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/english/doc...

For how addiction is defined, google ICD-11, it's: Impaired control over the behavior, the behavior taking increasing priority over other interests and daily activities, and continuation or escalation despite negative consequences, plus distress or functional impairment.. (I'm an alcoholic, 5 years sober)

But newspapers end and then each one cost money.

possibly

Probably this is more precise

I thought it was me, I literally think there are things that should no longer be acceptable and this font is one of them. It serves no purpose and I would like to ask medical professionals if it is potentially harmful.

Edit: While fuzzy or blurry text itself is highly unlikely to trigger an epileptic seizure it is a major cause of optical strain, headaches, and reading barriers across various accessibility needs. Given the amount of screen time we all incur in our daily lives, I do not see why this should be a "thing".

Not a font. The VHS line striping is just a repeating gradient applied over the whole page:

    main::before { 
        background: 
            linear-gradient(rgba(18, 16, 16, 0) 50%, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.25) 50%),
            linear-gradient( 90deg, rgba(255, 0, 0, 0.06), rgba(0, 255, 0, 0.02), rgba(0, 0, 255, 0.06) );
    }

    :root { 
        --text-shadow: 2px 0px red, -2px 0px var(--glitch-color-2);
    }

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I have 20/20 vision and this presentation hurt my eyes. I'm glad my browser has "reader mode" to normalize things like this. I'm not trying to yuck someone else's yum. I simply appreciate the technical ability to read someone else's post in a way that doesn't cause discomfort.

I had to stop reading the first paragraph because of how bad it is.

this font is the stupidest thing ive seen in ages

> 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

(reader mode works perfectly well on this site afaict)

Lol I sorta enjoyed the pain of it though and had to let my eyes just accept it

quick fix on my chrome: select all to fix the contrast.

BFDR bad font, didn't read

Literally hurt my eyes. Didn't make it past the first paragraph

As someone with keratoconus, I hardly noticed! This is what all text looks like for me.

reader mode button works wonders for me

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I imagined bad. I couldn't imagine something that bad.

It looks gorgeous as an art piece, but it's impossible to read.

Form over function to the extreme.

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Damn you beat me to it, I was going to say exactly that. What a nightmare!