I was about to complain about it actually (in grand HN tradition). Constantly looping animation beside articles is one of my biggest pet peeves on websites.

If this was the front page of your app or service's website, then fine.

But I'm trying to read here. I cannot help but notice the colour change in the corner of my eye. It is endlessly distracting. In the end I used chrome dev tools to delete it so I could actually read the damn content.

This is a blog: I came here to read pages of text, not look at pretty lights.