I like to find a photo and use Color Thief to get a foundation and modify the color scheme from there.

For reference: The Red Antler case study

See, this is good. Actually making things is good.

It's not solving a business problem. In fact, it's ignoring it completely. Therefore, it's not good design. (Yes, I'm trolling)

It actually works pretty well and you can potentially charge a little bit more. With that being said, you're also the only one doing the work so it's easy to overbook.

Yep, you're right. I'm projecting.

I know, but we're perpetuating the problem by posting it, upvoting it, and even commenting on it.

So the purpose of making a hacker news redesign to get on hacker/designer news isn't meta enough for you? This person clearly hasn't done any other notable work yet.

Fun is fine. Looks like the goal of this is to promote their (brand new) blog by doing a hackernews redesign.

I thought we decided to stop doing this.