A rotating ramen in the first position of HN? why?

Curious if I'm alone here, but for me, I love this because it reminds me of the early world wide web and simple sites that showcased one subject matter, created by enthusiasts for enthusiasts, and serving as a catalyst for creating more enthusiasts. Sites like these were prominent in the 1990s before various forces and features and trends emerged that ruined the internet. This site is a refreshing experience and gives me hope that maybe the internet is not fully or permanently ruined. This site is like art about art -- undeniably tasty art.

Same as always, because people upvote it, probably it's interesting to a bunch of people.

> What to Submit - On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

Whoever "people" is.

How many upvotes (in orders of magnitude) are needed to get to the front page is still a mystery to me.

I wonder if there are "slow days" on which it might be easier because there is less voting in general.

I've seen posts with 3 on the front-page but they have to be picked up to stay.

Because not everybody is ramen-profitable yet.

The site looks good on mobile.

> No cookies. No tips. No JavaScript. Just ramen.

I cannot help but wonder if Claude wrote this copy. Not that there would be anything wrong with that, I am just curious.

A little bit of JavaScript might have been nice. Tapping through a dozen ramens required me to then hit back a dozen times to return.

Right click on the back button and you get a full list of the previous ramen entries you've viewed. If he implemented with Javascript, he'd have to build a custom history menu.

It did not!

What’s wrong with appreciating beautiful food?

It's because it's food lol

I prefer that over yet another AI blog post