Avoid smooth spinners, use low-FPS spinners
Details
- External ID
- 49839672
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Avoid smooth spinners, use low-FPS spinners
- Website domain
- nh2.me
- Launched
- Sept. 25, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 27
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.7814992025518341
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 29, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 29, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
Description
I got so annoyed by various apps (VScode, Chromium, Firefox, Thunderbird) burning CPU/GPU cycles and and making my laptop hot and sluggish with spinners on otherwise static content, that I made this little page to fight this.
Enrichment
- Theme
- gaming performance and optimization utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- low-fps spinner guidelines for ui developers
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes This is a lightweight static HTML/CSS demonstration showcasing stepped CSS animations to reduce CPU/GPU cycles, which is trivial to build with AI assistance.
Discussion
16 comments analyzed.
Concerns raised: High GPU and battery usage claims may be due to outdated hardware or flawed setup, Older laptops cannot dynamically adjust refresh rates
Feature requests: Low-frequency (1Hz) spinner animations, Option to reduce animation FPS to save GPU/battery
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 26 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #7 of 27 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 312 days after the earliest competitor.
- Aero-Optimizer-Toolkit · github · 2026-09-27 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- MacBreeze · ph · 2026-09-28 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- Fix Laptop Sluggishness · ph · 2026-09-18 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- Cursor Flux · ph · 2026-09-28 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- windows-fps-boost-utility · github · 2026-09-15 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- windows-fps-boost-utility · github · 2026-09-15 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- windows-fps-boost-utility · github · 2026-09-15 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- windows-fps-boost-utility · github · 2026-09-16 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.37
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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