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Shun Hallucinates
Personal blog · blog.shunliang.ioprogrammingweb
Shun Hallucinates is a personal blog at blog.shunliang.io about programming and web. Since 2018, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “The Christmas Easter Egg That Went Wrong”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this post about the 2018 Ant Design Christmas easter egg, which silently added snow to buttons. Commenters cite it in discussions of Ant Design and of Chinese software.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- The Christmas Easter Egg That Went Wrong3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-06-10
What Hacker News says?
Similarly, but more innocuously, there was an incident where they silently pushed code with a Christmas “easter egg” that added snow to buttons. [0] https://blog.shunliang.io/frontend/2018/12/25/the-ant-design...
Comment linking /frontend/2018/12/25/the-ant-design-xmas-egg-that-went-wrong.html
on “Ask HN: Is there a whole universe of Chinese software that we don't see?”Submitted The Ant Design Christmas Egg That Went Wrong as a story · 143 points
HN discussionWho remembers the christmas easter egg fiasco? https://blog.shunliang.io/frontend/2018/12/25/the-ant-design...
Comment linking /frontend/2018/12/25/the-ant-design-xmas-egg-that-went-wrong.html
on “Ant Design – the second most popular React UI framework”Submitted The Christmas Easter Egg That Went Wrong as a story · 2 points
HN discussion