alt Hacker NewsI appreciate the minimalist HN aesthetic, but without some context I'm not willing to click a mystery link to "Tender Lovemaking dot com".
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Don't worry! It's actually "Tenderlove Making," going by how the site header is constructed. Definitely a maker/hacker site, and not whatever you were thinking. Hope this allays your concern.
What’s with the fear of tender lovemaking? Not your thing?
You should learn who the author is, then. Part of learning about our ecosystem.
You can use this link instead: https://tenderlove.dev/2026/09/11/what-a-time-to-be-alive/
Hope that helps!
It's the personal blog for a well-known Rubyist (i.e., a person who programs in the Ruby programming language). Rubyists teld to be a bit more colorful than your typical software developer (in a good way... most of the time).
Its the personal blog of https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tenderlove aka Aaron Patterson, core member of Ruby and Ruby on Rails.
You get some context by clicking on the “(tenderlovemaking.com)” in parentheses after the title.
The site is safe. It has been a trademark of Aaron Patterson a core Ruby on Rails contributor for decades.
This made me laugh. I too, browse like corporate security is sitting at my desk.
It's about OpenAI's RubyGems hack. Totally safe for work.
What kind of esthetic alteration would make you more comfortable clicking on that link?
Firefox has got some kind of feature to take a peek at at a link by hovering or something... Now I understand the usecase.
Based on the thumbnail I think it’s actually tenderlove making dot com, though I agree with your sentiment.
Oh but you’ll go to expert sex change dot com?
I miss when the internet was fun