Theme 1 – Creative pedestrian traffic‑light designs
- “It is current. Source: I live in Berlin.” – mxschll
- “The protests were successful, and the Ampelmännchen returned to pedestrian crossings…” – dEnigma (quoting Wikipedia)
- “Even better: Emden, Germany.” – Tomte
- “I always like to see one off designs, like this one in the Netherlands of Miffy …” – foresterre
- “Not exactly a man, but Sofie[0] from Amersfoort is also interesting.” – bojan
- “and the Ampel‑couples in Vienna” – croisillon
Theme 2 – Nostalgia and critique of web‑development eras
- “For good reason. 90s web was full of independence and experimentation…” – hnlmorg
- “The era you described was when corporate entities took ownership of the web with walled gardens…” – hnlmorg
- “Speak for yourself buddy, I had a blast both browsing and developing for the Flash era…” – PorciiVorbesc
- “You’re conflating a whole plethora of stuff there and, in doing so, missing the point entirely.” – hnlmorg
- “Now there's more open standards for web‑dev on paper, but instead of Flash and IE, we have the monopoly walled garden of Google, Apple, Meta, etc.” – PorciiVorbesc
- “I suspect tech has little to do with it: we all mostly miss being 20 years younger and not having gray hair.” – qsort
Theme 3 – Light‑hearted, off‑topic appreciation and humor
- “It's kinda odd (to me, at least) to see an active blogpost in 2026.” – Gualdrapo
- “This is exactly what I like to see on HN while I’m having my coffee.” – kridsdale1
- “Fun!” – foresterre
- “What’s an active blogpost? Do you mean an active blog?” – layer8
- “Also Elvis is still alive …” – johannes1234321