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Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 2,346 posts.
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New motorcycle lighting design could save lives
Motorcycle drivers are 27 times more likely to die in an accident than those in regular passenger vehicles. Night driving is especially dangerous, accounting for nearly half of all fatal crashes.
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Is This The Future of The Airline Website?
See how Fantasy propels category leaders forward—AI strategy, flagship digital product design, and brands used daily by billions.
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Fluid Layout from Hicksdesign
Hicks.design is Jon Hicks, established 2002.
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What Le Corbusier got right about office space
A century ago, the father of modern architecture, Le Corbusier, was commissioned by a French industrialist to design some homes for factory workers near Bordeaux. The resulting development, Cité Fr…
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The CSS Behind Figma
A look at some interesting use-cases for CSS flexbox and grid in Figma app.
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The web as a GUI toolkit
The web is kinda weird because it was originally created as a typesetting system, rather than a GUI toolkit. While this definitely has its drawbacks 1 and isn’t suitable for everything , I personally rather like the “web as a GUI toolkit” exactly because of its typesetting roots; it provides some features that few…
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Light Traffic
Slot-based intersections that could replace traditional traffic lights, significantly reducing queues and delays.
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The Most Hated Online Advertising Techniques
Modal ads, ads that reorganize content, and autoplaying video ads were among the most disliked. Ads that are annoying on desktop become intolerable on mobile.
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What Kind of Logo Do You Get for $5?
An epic tale of deception, stolen artwork, and crappy logos
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Clojure is a product design tool (2015)
Clojure makes me more efficient and extends my reach as a designer. And it protects me from complex design workflows...
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Designing an email-only Slack interface
On the design of Stop Slacking , which lets you interact via email with the poor souls trapped in the endless, no-agenda meeting that is Slack.
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Right-to-Left Styling 101
An extensive guide on how to style for RTL in CSS
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Building Pulse and Bloom, an interactive biofeedback installation at Burning Man
Samuel Clay is a grad student in the schools of design and of engineering at Harvard. He founded NewsBlur , a personal RSS news reader, and Turn Touch , beautiful control for the smart home.
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The Art of Dithering and Retro Shading for the Web (2024)
A detailed walkthrough of the inner workings of dithering and other shading techniques to give a retro look and feel to your WebGL and React Three Fiber work.
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TreeMaker: Origami Design Software
In 1989, I wrote an article for the magazine Engineering & Science about the state of technical folding, which, even then, seemed to be progressing by leaps and bounds due to an infusion of scientific and mathematical principles. In recounting some of the connections between origami, math, and technology, I wrote:
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Happy Hacking: Music Implementation in NieR:Automata (2017)
Hello! I’m Masami Ueda, a music composer at PlatinumGames, here to write about some of my work on NieR:Automat […]
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Anno 1800: Shadows of Beauty
While playing Anno 1800 , I noticed something which I’ve never noticed before in any other game (but to be fair, I don’t play too many city builders): The sun keeps a position relative to the camera and thus the shadows alway s fall from left to right:
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The Startup’s Guide to Budget Design
Hi! My name is Rob, and I find the best website design leads for agencies on the web. Save hours finding great projects to pitch.
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Awesome Visualisations of Choose Your Own Adventure books
An infographical analysis of the structure of the Choose Your Own Adventure books series
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Treatise on Font Rasterisation
Font rasterisation is, in the author’s opinion, one of the most interesting fields of computer science. If music is the subjective application of physics, then font rasterisation is almost certainly the subjective application of computer science. The purpose of this article is threefold: firstly, to provide an…