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My corporate firewall blocked this due to it being a newly registered domain.

So I can't even see it, I care less about "vibe coding" but it sounds like someone registered a domain just to get attention on their amazing take about why they think they're qualified to tell the world the future.

Next time they should run it by your company before they decide to create a new domain.

> My corporate firewall blocked this due to it being a newly registered domain.

Was surprised mine did not - usually a toss up with HN links. I don't get reasoning just "NONCOMPLIANT ACTION". It is interesting to have a flag telling you the domain is new, though

Do you know by which mechanism they recognize newly registered domains in order to block them?

It's a whois lookup, registrars provide that information.

So a realtime whois lookup is performed when the request to the DNS server is made, and if the domain was only registered within X days/weeks, then return 0.0.0.0 (or other such blocking method).

See, I've outbuilding tried compiling lists of newly registered domains to use as block lists, bit they're very large lists that my under-spec systems struggle to deal with. As such, I scaled back / shelved the project.

Looks like Adguard DNS and NextDNS offer blocking NRDs as an option in their paid services. I shall be looking into this further.

Ive been out of the authoritative dns game for a while, but asi recall…

Larger providers can also get bulk zone access for TLD’s and whois/registrar data. For this use case it’s relatively easy to create a time based filter on that. Anything that’s “new” will be de facto absent from your “allow” check and create an implicit deny.

Then your large IT provider or recursive DNS system will probably layer in RPZ where they can insert explicit denies at resolution time. Either based on QNAME, RDATA, zone, etc.

These types of pages have been common long before vibe coding.

But now with vibecoding it feels like the default for articles to have fancy animation, rather than the exception. I guess that by having a fancier presentation it subconsciously legitimizes the content more so you're less likely to critique it as compared to a simple blog post where you pay more attention to the words and can realize that it's very surface level.

Vibe coding has made them a lot more common. Before, you'd need to put a lot more effort into making a website that worked like this, and it wasn't worth it for a random post. Now this person's entire website is posts like this, and I've seen many more in the past few months.

> Please tell your clanker to just write a blog post instead

You're right to push back on that. Let me get the details instead of hand waving.

Having read plenty of 1970's and 1980's sci-fi, I feel that clanker is the perfect term.

...or include a auto-scroll that will go directly to the next content slide (working with keyboard arrows).

Why not point your clanker at this and ask for it as a blog post?

Completely disagree.

I appreciate this website. This format is intentional and serves a purpose.

It's great to see the small web in action.

Here’s a very short list of visual essays I like:

https://thenoisyroom.com/ https://www.terrygodier.com/the-last-quiet-thing

This one is good but the content doesn’t speak to me like the above. Would have been nice if OP had added a writing style suggestion to the prompt. Vanilla LLM text is sad

"please do things the way I want things to be done"

eh, am very biased as I design similar sites but I honestly prefer these to what would be likely string of random social media posts.

I like having relevant graphics stickied while text is displayed alongside it (assuming by blog post you mean the typical page-like top to bottom approach).

edit: damn, if these designs are hated what modern approaches do people like? I feel like scroll based text is a relatively unexplored idea compared to the typical blog post.

When it comes to web content, I vastly prefer web like interfaces that you can't reproduce in print.

While I'm not that against to such a web page (when viewing it on a monitor, not a phone) I'd say follow these points:

• Don't hijack any browser functionality. Scrolling shall scroll the document, the end.

• Don't scale something to the screen size, breaking zoom! Especially don't do it so that when zooming causes a different scroll position and then it all jumps to a different slide. WTF!

• Make it accessible!

If you want to make flashy graphics and animations make a game. That is not meant as to belittle games, I love games.

I don't disagree with those, and I'm able to do them myself but what do you mean by this?

"• Don't hijack any browser functionality. Scrolling shall scroll the document, the end."

How would you consider the page hijacking scroll functionality? You can scroll down normally. There are animations based on scroll position, maybe that's what you meant?

I mean the animated graphics and some other hackery going on when you try to zoom. It thinks to detect a different scroll position and jumps to a different slide. Also means you can't convert it to a PDF or print it, if you want to (though I wouldn't want to do that).

Gotcha, interesting user flow. I've never manually tested that before. Adding it to the list.

I do think the site is a very poor vibed implementation of this FWIW, another hour of manually tweaking some css/js would solve this issues.

I want it to be something you could reproduce in print, though. As close to what I'd get putting it in reader mode as possible.

We've spent a long time optimizing the printed word, including pages with diagrams and illustrations on them. You don't need to reinvent the wheel for every blog

I mean if you want print views (reader mode in firefox works well if the dev took the time to structure everything semantically), definitely use the print functionality. Maybe I'm one of the last people that still makes print media queries, but I do find value in them especially since they're quite easy to make.

> edit: damn, if these designs are hated what modern approaches do people like? I feel like scroll based text is a relatively unexplored idea compared to the typical blog post.

The New York Times generally does the "lots of data, text and graphs in a scrolling presentation" tastefully.

Any articles that demonstrate this? Haven't read the NYT in like 15 years. Only vaguely familiar with the data viz that Mike Bostock created while there, and only because he shared them on a defunct blocks site.

This is a great one, though quite old: 342,000 Swings Later, Derek Jeter Calls It a Career (https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/09/14/sports/baseba...)

Another good one from 2025: Who Sits Where In Trump's West Wing (https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/04/21/us/politics/w...)

And one more from 2025: ‘He’s a Maximalist’: Inside Trump’s Gilded Oval Office (https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/12/23/us/trump-whit...)

They have a page where they've cataloged all of their interactive and visualization articles for 2025 here: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/12/22/us/2025-year-...

Tired of you vibe coding detectives. Who the heck cares? If you don't use AI these days you're not smart. Why call it out, as if you caught them doing something unethical?

Because a lot of us don’t want to see AI slop and it’s very useful to have that pointed out in the comments before I waste time clicking on the link and slowly coming to that realization myself.

An AI design is an imperfect hint that the copy may also be similarly generated.

You know there's like an entire generation of devs raised hearing "copyright violations are theft, don't do it, it's band"? Unsurprisingly many of these people indeed think that when Anthropic and OpenAI does industrial scale copyright theft that's bad.

Also, calling most of humanity "stupid" is pretty stupid.

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