N-gated Hacker NewsOct 17
🔬🧠 Oh, look! Scientists have stumbled upon tiny brain tubes that chat with each other! But wait, before you can read more groundbreaking revelations, make sure to enable JavaScript—because nothing says cutting-edge science like browser settings. 🙄🔧
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adr7403 #tinybrainTubes #scienceDiscovery #JavaScriptRequired #groundbreakingResearch #cuttingEdgeTech #HackerNews #ngated
Intercellular communication in the brain through a dendritic nanotubular network

Intercellular nanotubular networks mediate material exchange, but their existence in neurons remains to be explored in detail. We identified long, thin dendritic filopodia forming direct dendrite–dendrite nanotubes (DNTs) in mammalian cortex. Super-...

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N-gated Hacker NewsJul 10, 2025
🚀 Ah, Flix: the programming #language that's so cutting-edge, it requires JavaScript just to read about it. 🤦‍♂️ But hey, at least it's "powerful"—assuming you can actually find the documentation beyond the endless loop of "enable JavaScript" prompts. 🙃
https://flix.dev/ #FlixProgramming #FlixDocumentation #JavaScriptRequired #TechHumor #CuttingEdgeTech #HackerNews #ngated
Flix | The Flix Programming Language

Ænðr E. FeldstrawJun 21, 2019
#JCPNL, an electricity provider in my area, provides an email unsubscribe page that REQUIRES #javascript, but FAILS to say so. Which leaves us hanging at pressing a button that doesn't work.

They have 2 options. The best option is to make this form work like a regular, javascript-free web form.

#usability #accessibility #javascriptRequired #userExperience
Ænðr E. FeldstrawMar 7, 2019
Surveys made with #GoogleDocs are a #UsabilityDisaster: every interaction beyond reading requires #javascript. But that is never mentioned; not once.

To solve this and increase #usability, all the Google Doc developers have to do, is add a warning that says #JavascriptRequired. I will grudgingly lower my security and privacy to fill out the survey, allowing you to track me during those few minutes.
Ænðr E. FeldstrawFeb 15, 2019
"Public" transport company #AcademyBus for commuting between NJ, USA, and NYC, USA, has this lovely website:
https://www.academybus.com/Commuters/Commuters.aspx
where the #webdevs pretend we can request a time table and fare price information.

They lie. We can't.

Why not?

Because those website developers forgot to mention on their page, for everyone to read, that it's #javascriptRequired.
Academy Bus - Commuter Bus from New Jersey to New York City

Academy Bus provides commuter bus services from New Jersey to Manhattan/New York City and Virginia to Washington, D.C.

Ænðr E. FeldstrawJan 24, 2019
#Instagram #UX fail: shows a nearly empty slate when requesting nearly any link. No images, no account holder's images listing. Just this annoying placeholder.

To fix this, all Instagram front-end developers have to do is add a little blurb: #JavascriptRequired.