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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 47 posts.
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Autodraw – Fast Drawing for Everyone
AutoDraw is a new A.I. Experiment, built by Google Creative Lab, which uses machine learning and artists’ drawings, to help everyone create anything visual, fast.
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Introducing Lottie: Airbnb's tool for adding animations to native apps
Our new open-source tool makes adding animation to native apps a snap.
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Using Deep Learning to Create Professional-Level Photographs
Posted by Hui Fang, Software Engineer, Machine PerceptionMachine learning (ML) excels in many areas with well defined goals. Tasks where there exis...
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Flexbox and Grids: your layout’s best friends
We decided to debunk the myths around Flexbox & Grids in order to show you the power of these two technologies working together.
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Blender 2.79 released
The Free and Open Source 3D Creation Software — blender.org
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Racing for Realism
At Pixar, pushing the limits of rendering is always a race towards realism, but never at the expense of style. Learn how the talented artists, programmers, and scientists at Pixar are pushing the limits of computer graphics to tell the best possible story.
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Algorithm generates practical paper-folding patterns to produce any 3D structure
MIT’s Erik Demaine improves on his landmark, 18-year-old algorithm for generating origami folding patterns for any 3-D shape. The new work adds the requirement of “watertightness,” or minimizing the number of seams in an origami approximation of a closed surface.
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Flat UI Elements Attract Less Attention and Cause Uncertainty
In an eyetracking experiment comparing different clickability clues, weak and flat signifiers required more user effort than strong ones.
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A story of a designer learning math
The free website builder with a design agent that takes you from idea to launch. Changes stay editable, with hosting, CMS, analytics, SEO, and AEO built in.
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Teaching Machines to Draw
Posted by David Ha, Google Brain ResidentAbstract visual communication is a key part of how people convey ideas to one another. From a young age, c...
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Scrolling on the web: A primer
Scrolling is one of the oldest interactions on the web. Long before we had pull-to-refresh or infinite-loading lists, the humble scrollbar solved the web’s original scaling problem: how can we interact with content that’s stretched beyond the available viewport? Animations by Rachel Nabors Today, scrolling is still…
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The future of MDN: a focus on web docs
Building MDN into a world class repository of high quality Web documentation is one of the most valuable things Mozilla has done for Web developers. Now we’re looking to double-down ...
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Mozilla launches new brand identity
Seven months since setting out to refresh the Mozilla brand experience, we’ve reached the summit. Thousands of emails, hundreds of meetings, dozens of concepts, and three rounds of research later, ...
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Fedora dev: “HN feedback on what they want from their Desktop – We got it”
So there is a thread on Hacker News based on a question from a Canonical employee asking for feedback on what people want from the next version of Ubuntu. I always try to read such threads even when they are not about Fedora or Red Hat. I fact I often read such articles and threads...
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Top accessibility complaints from people with disabilities
"If you have a disability, what's the hardest thing about browsing the web?" The answers to Safia Abdalla's tweet are truly eye-opening and shows us…
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Amazon Sumerian: A way to create VR, AR, and 3D experiences
Update May 18, 2022 – Amazon Sumerian is no longer available to new customers. Existing customers’ Sumerian data will be available until February 21, 2023. We recommend that these customers transition their existing scenes to Babylon.js where they can be published using AWS Amplify. For more information about Amazon…
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User experience design for APIs
Writing code is rarely just a private affair between you and your computer. Code is not just meant for machines; it has human users. It is meant to be read by people, used by other developers, maintained and built upon. Developers who produce better code, in greater quantity, when they are kept happy and productive…
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Perceptually uniform color spaces
Programming Design Systems is a free digital book that teaches a practical introduction to the new foundations of graphic design.
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Recreating 3D renderings in real life
A series of 4 photographs recreating computer renderings as physical scenes.
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Cracking the code behind Apple’s App Store promo card design
Promo codes - create your own scannable promo codes. equinux uncovers the secret behind Apple's App Store scan codes.
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Ghost in the Shell FUI Design
Here’s a look at the recent film Ghost in the Shell, showcasing some FUI work by MPC , Territory Studios and Ash Thorp . It looks like a huge amount of work was put into the development of this world, it’s visually rich and littered with lots of interesting tech. In this art
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The Zen of Just Writing CSS
I would say this is the future, but we’re already doing it.
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Generation UX – How to make websites age-friendly
UserZoom empowers your team with sophisticated UX insights to create digital experiences that delight customers and drive business growth.