Comment by nerevarthelame

Comment by nerevarthelame 8 days ago

8 replies

On top of the poor readability, my 2-year-old laptop can't even navigate through the page without CPU and GPU going insane, and my fans blasting at max speed. It's the poorest, choppiest web performance I can recall, all for what should be a simple blog post.

SpaceNoodled 8 days ago

That's the fault of modern websites being massive JavaScript ad-playing behemoths instead of sub-1kB served HTML as god intended.

  • hbn 8 days ago

    Funny cause just today this made it to the front page of HN

    https://animejs.com/

    It has way fancier animations and scrolls like butter

    • Arech 7 days ago

      That's likely because it offloads most of the job to GPU. On a potato it's also very choppy, but CPU fans stays quiet indeed. Gate's notes seems to put the most strain on CPU instead.

    • ForOldHack 7 days ago

      Seriously next level. I am on an old potato, and its smooth as silk, forward and backward. Backward. My potato is a ThinkPad i7 which slips into low speed at every single moment it can.

  • bostik 8 days ago

    Tim Berners-Lee has been elevated to many things, but an ascension to deity must be a new reach.

    • lkramer 8 days ago

      I don't know, did you see the 2012 Olympic opening ceremony?

zombot 5 days ago

But it does distract from the insufferable self-aggrandizing slime he's shitting out.