Because of Bootstrap. Everyone uses it. Every old website that looked different in the past, now does a UI refresh (by just using Bootstrap out of the box with minimal customisation) and becomes another one of those the same looking websites.

Outside of the HN comment bubble, nobody uses Bootstrap. And it doesn't explain the examples in TFA.

Speaking anecdotally, up to around 2016 every other website used Bootstrap or Foundation, often with minimal customization, just because it looks and works well out of the box on all devices. Now it seems like it's getting better, but generic UI components are an extremely relevant aspect.

Promethease is a good example. Years later a bootstrap website signals to me "it's about the functionality, not the design". https://promethease.com/

Before that everything was jQuery UI. Government websites still use a ton of it. All of Colorado's web portals are built with it. And now things are shifting towards UI frameworks "plus more", like Ionic, which adds a bunch of design/devops workflow and cross platform functionality.

What is it? Why would I sign in into something I know nothing about?

It is Julia running in a browser, allowing you to try it with no installs. Its not meant for public use yet.

And yes, you shouldn't sign into something you know nothing about - no one is asking you too :)

I just wanted to say the same thing.

Why are now British authorities are under a binding obligation to extradite him to Sweden, but British Court released V. Antonov on bail when Lithuania asked UK to extradite him to Lithuania?

Looks like the webpage was created by the Mars scientists themselves. They should entrust that job to a web designer.

Scientists were making web pages when you was in diapers, kid. I was there, working at Rockwell in '94.

That's what I'm saying, they were. They shouldn't. Like CERN announcement in Comic Sans.

The promise of the web was the democratization of publishing... anyone could do it, cutting out the middle-men. Now you tell us a "professional" has to be involved, no thanks.

As long as its readable I'm happy. I look at a lot of these professionally designed sites in the way you do this one, too much. I'd prefer the traditional black Times on a grey background.

I don't want to offend too, but it really does look more like a pirated software site, that.

That's an example of how not to create a website.

$query = "INSERT INTO groceries (item_name, in_cart) VALUES ('".$_POST['item_name']."', 0)";

come on..

Was planning on adding string cleaning in the next lesson :)