Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 2,346 posts.
UPDATE (April 2014): After the huge debate this original post created, we decided to refine and build upon the original article, bearing in mind the thoughts of some very insightful feedback left by some commenters. You can find the new article here. UPDATE (March 2018): Some of the comments are not taking into…
Hi, my name is Adam Ramirez. I am a UX Designer who focuses on Design Facilitation and Product Analytics with 10 years of experience under my belt. In the past 5 years, I have been working to deliver the best possible user experience to my clients and their users.
Anders de Flon. Type design information compiled and maintained by Luc Devroye.
I’ll cut to the chase before I type too many more words: textarea { field-sizing: content; /* used to be `form-sizing` but changed to this */ } I came across it via an Amit Merchant blog post…
A few months ago I set myself the challenge to recreate this photo (shot by Masashi Wakui) By modeling it in 3d! At the end I had this (I promise no IRL cats w…
An experiment to understand how the discrepancy between logical and native screen dimensions on the iPhone 6 Plus affects rendering quality.
Improving the perceived speed of interfaces using skeleton loading screens plus other front-end/UX performance gains.
Since gradient.horse went online in January 2026, six months have passed, and more than 600 000 horses (and non-horses) were drawn. There are now more horses on gradient.horse than in the wild. The image model I trained to filter out vandalism works very well, but it also hides a lot of ingenious drawings. You could…
You might remember him from such roles as Troy McClure or Lionel Hutz, but in the years before legendary comic Phil Hartman shaved the second ‘n’ from his name, he was designing album art for some West Coast rock bands.
Anthropic is silently A/B testing Claude Code's plan mode on paying users. This isn't a consumer app. Stop treating it like one.
On Tuesday 27 August Helsinki Central Library Oodi was chosen as the winner of the 2019 Public Library of the Year award in the World Library and Information Congress of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), which is currently underway in Athens. The annually presented Public…
The story of why and how I developed a tool for designing MDF furniture by writing my own little language that transpiles into a CSS grid layout.
Ever since I came across Jürg Lehni’s essay on typographic technology and digital fonts, Typeface As Programme, I’ve been fascinated with the story of Donald E. Knuth and his unexpected contributions to typography. You see, Knuth is a professor and computer scientist well known to pr…
After a long alpha period, we're excited to release the first public beta of Tailwind CSS v4.0.
If you’ve been on the internet this week, chances are you might have seen a meme or two about the Firefox logo. And listen, that’s great news for us. S
“The absence of problems” is the best definition I can come up with for quality.
Lost amidst the hubbub around flat design is the fact that the flat trend makes it really easy for mediocre designers to do merely passable work.
Inspired by multiple posts on dithering, I set out to create a correct implementation of Atkinson dithering with support for RGB colour palettes. The post also outlines implementing linearising the colour-space and correcting for human perception.
Dango - Your Emoji Assistant
Screenshots in documentation can be a contentious topic — some people really like them and think they add a lot of value, while others dislike them due to the maintenance burden and accessibility issues. So what should you do?
Dan Harden's Ravenchord redefines the piano by exposing strings and hammers in a striking spiral, blending aesthetic and acoustic beauty in one.
GauGAN2, the latest version of NVIDIA Research’s wildly popular AI painting demo, allows anyone to create photorealistic masterpieces.
It’s one of the most repeated phrases in software, but is also quite easy to forget - you spend more time reading code than you do writing it. According to the…
How we designed a color system with hand-picked, vibrant colors that also met standards for accessibility and contrast.
