- Author
- Posted by tobr, with replies from many commenters
- Published
- 15 January 2026
- Kind
- Hacker News discussion thread of an essay
- Original
- news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46630816
- Subject
- Software design
What it is
tobr posted a link to the essay. The essay's content is known here only through commenters' quotes. It centers on New Reddit's slow comment collapse and on the Handmade community.
What it says
- Commenters quote the essay: New Reddit took almost 200 milliseconds to collapse a comment.
- One commenter says the essay never says what readers should do.
- A dispute over jQuery turns on whether it was slow or bridged missing browser features.
- Commenters argue over native cross-platform UI toolkits, with Qt criticized for heavy abstractions.
- One commenter says Solid, Svelte and Vue update only the needed DOM parts.
- Replying as the essay's author, bvisness says Dear Imgui beats React.
- One commenter says slow rendering costs fall on customers, not the builders.
What evidence it gives
The thread offers opinion, anecdote and a few technical explanations. One reply gives the essay's own measure of 200 milliseconds. Other claims, such as about jQuery and Solid, are stated without benchmarks. One reply says the essay ends by advocating more high-level foundations.
Interests and limits
The essay itself was not read for this page, only the thread. Commenters disagree and many claims are unverified. Some commenters promote their own tools. Hacker News readers are not a representative sample.