> My primary inspiration was addressing software and tool bloat in UIs rather than strictly adhering to every principle set forth by David Bryant Copeland. I don't find it convincing that this site "isn't brutalist" compared to really any other experience apart from the Main HN site, and I would argue the overall experience is more brutalist in its performance and scrolling behavior.
It may be nearer to brutalist than nearly every other site out there, but to call The submission brutalist would remove most meaning from the term. I don’t know what the magical threshold is for something to be brutalist, but this ain’t it, I think. If adhering to principles of brutalism wasn’t a priority, why label it that?