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Comment by p_l | Hacker News Reader

This page is IMPRESSIVELY BAD.

I don't even care what it shows due to just how audibly resource heavy it is while showing pretty much nothing other than some simple copy.

There's no way in hell opening the main page should cause so much load my computer sounds like I just opened Cyberpunk 2077 or Doom Eternal at max details, especially given the amount actually rendered (I just opened the page, didn't even scroll anywhere!).

Looking into Chrome's performance metrics it's as if there's constant, ridiculous re-rendering of everything, with just calculating the layering causing CPU fans to go to 80%.

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You are not kidding. I can't remember the last time a website has made my scroll stutter so much.

Trying to type in search box causes screen covering popup with a ton of latency, and typing in that box has crazy bad keyboard lag.

Not a persuasive demo.

Memory corrupted my browser. Required me to kill the task.

I'm assuming this is platform specific. It's totally smooth for me on a M1 MacBook Pro. Thats with a bunch of tabs open while on a zoom call (gotta do something to pass the time during standup). I find it annoying for other reasons, but I'm not seeing any perf issues on the page.

edit... reading through the other comments I see LOTS of people are having this issue. Not sure why I'm the lucky one, but I went back and clicked through all the pages, still no perceivable lag at all.

I have an M1 MBP too, and while it appeared stable, I saw the GPU usage skyrocket while that page was running in Chrome, around 75% in Activity Monitor (View -> GPU Processes), and reaching close to 100% in iStat Menus.

It does not lag on my computer, no.

But it's audibly resource hungry, because it puts so much load my computer immediately jumped to high power cooling due to how much load it puts.

So yes, it's smooth, but that's more because I actually can run both the aforementioned titles at max detail at 4k, not because there's something secret breaking the site for some but not all.

Same here, I can't believe how a UI show case site could be this annoying

"I created animations. I gotta use them somewhere"

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