40% in dark mode? Totally makes sense. I don't know why, but we fall in love with dark mode. What's the reason? Maybe it just feels way more comfortable for our eyes.

Procedural generation always looks magical until you realize it's just a bunch of simple rules fighting for resources.

That makes it even more magical to me.

reductionists being reductionists. I'm with you.

There has been a complete deluge of new accounts sometimes only hours or days old being extremely condescending, overly negative, sometimes antagonistic, and sometimes they seem like a kind of LLM prompted to cause arguments.

HN needs to re-introduce the rule where you can't post until the account is at least a few days old.

occam's razor at its finest

True. To get a free HTTPS certificate is a really difficult challenge, I think :)