Hacker News Reader

I cloned it in Ruby on Rails and wrote about it here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3744237

You say "In fact, it goes against the very ethos of Hacker News.", do you think your action aligns with the "ethos of Hacker News"?

Do you think it's okay to rip-off something just because you think it shouldn't be invite only?

You complain about him being ripped off when his logo is a rip off of The Flash super hero logo? Irony

I do.

I kind-of agree. If someones got a thing where part of their value proposition is "invite only" curation - then that same idea with different or no curators seems to be fair game…

I cloned it in Wordpress https://github.com/gravityonmars/wp-svbtle

Pretty hard to read any text with that going, it's a shame it doesn't respond to <esc>.

They are super subtle, how are they even remotely distracting?

The attack and sustain stages aren't long enough.

If they were longer like the breathing sleep LED on apple laptops it would be less noticeable.