So uh, not to cause a fuss but why was the title edited? I can understand removing the word "impressive" as that is an opinion, but removing the explanation (interactive html5 / webgl presentation built with threejs) seems silly? How are users who casually browse news.yc supposed to look at this and have any clue what they're clicking? Titles that are descriptive should be more important than... well I can't think why it was changed to just "lights"? Surely the title containing some sort of description about the content is a courtesy that users would appreciate.
(For reference the original title was "Lights -- impressive html5 / webgl presentation built with threejs" and is now "Lights")
How are users who casually browse news.yc supposed to look at this and have any clue what they're clicking?
Since there's no way to hide these links with uninformative titles, the no-addon solution is to get them to display as "visited". So I click them and then immediately close the tab.
Website owners: Sorry for throwing off your stats.
I'd say the technology is the least impressive part of it.
It feels like 303/acme from 1996. Only on gigahertz machinery instead of a 486. and using hardware acceleration for very basic 3d effects, rather than software generated texture/env mapping.
(For reference the original title was "Lights -- impressive html5 / webgl presentation built with threejs" and is now "Lights")