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Comment by demibabs | Hacker News Reader

Every ai generated page tries to cram way too much information in way too small a place

I'm ok with that. Better than those 2007 iPhone bare pages where you can't do or read anything.

What I don't like is that every site now looks the same.

Im not, its like everyone is using the same font/color/layout. Like they dont even take a second to change the generic color palette all these llms output.

These styles only change after a model gets updated, then they all start having a different font, some cursive red font and a beige background maybe.

I knew what this site was going to look like before I clicked the link.

Its so ugly and unoriginal, I assume the content/information trying to be communicated lacks any sort of expertise or original insights.

Yesterday these topics went viral and this guy used some llm to farm engagement. It was literally built to get attention for a singular day after this topic went viral. It will not exist in 3 months.

Edit. Its actually an attempt to bandwagon jump ontp a viral topic and sell $150 ad spots and probably to promote their own $299 club for vibecoders.

I found that if you make the base styling and components, and then vibecode the layout/content, you get better results than letting the LLM make the base itself.

Obviously if your base is just unmodified shadcn, then it will look like any other toy site out there.

Had same vibe with bootstrap, material design before

Seriously - why can't the browsers just natively support a common UI component framework. Its 2026 and they still haven't done it. That old excuse of: webtech needs individual flair and diversity is now a fraudulent argument considering that everyone uses Claude to generate the same look and feel everywhere.

Might as well get it natively supported in the browser.

Until Google and Apple agree to create a new "web app" standard, it's not gonna happen HTML moves painfully slow. Then solutions come out (input datetime) and people don't use them.

And also just useless or confusing information like the box labeled closed that has “Ongoing” inside.

There's so much potential here. It just takes a human who barely knows what they're doing to sit and make critical decisions about it all. You don't even have to have design experience. Just some common sense about consistency and intent.

For a command line-only, textmode-only user, e.g., yours truly, "AI" trends can have a silver lining^1

https://pwn.watch/llms.txt

https://pwn.watch/all/feed.xml

https://pwn.watch/incidents.json

Within incidents.json are JSON files for each incident with further details

A user could easily construct their own "web page" (or SQL database, CSV, formatted textfile, etc.) that caters to the user's own aesthetic and functional preferences

I've become accustomed to reading JSON, Markdown, etc. For me these text-only formats are "human readable"

In the text-only browser I use, incidents.json is easier for me to read than the pwn.watch web page

No Javascript, cookies, data collection, surveillance, ads, etc.

1. Also, MCP

My eyes have no idea what to focus on.

It would be more readable if every AI-generated page didn't go for the dark-mode + glowing neon cyber aesthetic.

fixed!

Still dark for me (Firefox 158.0 on Linux)

Looks better, thanks. What's the source for this data? Might be nice to declare that somewhere on the page as well.

Yup... Love it! Get rekt negative space!

It's also an ad to what seems to be an AI vibe coding community that asks for money

My biggest issue is the dark theme, which makes it more or less impossible to consume for people with astigmatism. I looked at the page half a minute ago and my eyes are still trying to recover fully.

Definitely. And often repeated/redundant information in many cases.

someone called it "narrative ui", usually opus and deepseek dont do it as much, this was grok bot cleaning up now

i know, it's pissing me off too. fixing now!

Kudos on improving it; it’s definitely better now.

(But still not great, evidenced by the fact that most of the upvotes on my comment are from after you improved it.)

Unnecessary information density.

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