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Rules for creating good-looking user interfaces, from a developer

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-16 13:13:48

Creating good-looking user interfaces has always been a struggle for me. If you’re in the same camp, this might help. I recently redesigned Lighthouse, and during that process built a system that helped me create much better designs than I ever did before. This system is about achieving the best possible design with the least amount of effort. There’s no need to know about the psychological impact of colors, which fonts are best for which purpose, golden ratios, etc. This is expert-level desig

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iPhone 18 Pro might fix iPhone 17 Pro’s most polarizing design choice

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-09-19 21:03:44

iPhone 18 Pro rumors have already started, including one that says Apple may be changing the most polarizing design element of iPhone 17 Pro: the glass cutout on the back of the device. Rear glass cutout design might be changing with iPhone 18 Pro Apple made some bold design changes with this year’s iPhone lineup. The iPhone Air (read our review) offers a futuristic look, while the iPhone 17 Pro (review here) stands out with three main features: The full-width camera plateau Bold new color op

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Programming language inventor or serial killer? (2003)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-09-21 20:33:37

1. Bertrand Meyer Initial designer of the Eiffel language and Design by Contract development method. Currently a Professor at the Polytechnic University of Milan 2. Dorothea Puente The “Death House Landlady” ran a Sacramento boarding house in the ’80s and murdered at least 9 tenants before claiming their Social Security 3. John Christie Killed 8 women at 10 Rillington Place, London. Arrested after new tenants tracing an unpleasant odour peeled off the kitchen wallpaper to reveal a corpse 4

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iOS 26 lets you reduce Liquid Glass to be more like iOS 18, here’s how

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-09-24 16:06:13

iOS 26 is packed with major changes for the iPhone, including a new Liquid Glass design. But if you’re not a fan of the fresh design, here’s how to make iOS 26 look and feel more like iOS 18 again. You can’t turn Liquid Glass off, but you can scale it way back in iOS 26 Apple’s software has a new look across all devices, with Liquid Glass at the center. So far based on social media, Liquid Glass seems to understandably be getting a wide variety of responses, ranging from positive, to negative

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Development of the MOS Technology 6502: A Historical Perspective (2022)

news.ycombinator.com Jason Sachs 2025-09-24 22:59:47

One ubiquitous microprocessor of the late 1970s and 1980s was the MOS Technology MCS 6502. I included a section on the development of the 6502 in Part 2 of Supply Chain Games, and have posted it as an excerpt here, as I believe it is deserving in its own right. (Note: MOS Technology is pronounced with the individual letters M-O-S “em oh ess”,[1] not “moss”, and should not be confused with another semiconductor company, Mostek.) Semiconductor Fabrication and the 6502 The 6502 was first deliver

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1975 Sep 16 MOS Technology samples 6502 at WESCON, here's how they designed it

news.ycombinator.com Jason Sachs 2025-09-25 03:59:47

One ubiquitous microprocessor of the late 1970s and 1980s was the MOS Technology MCS 6502. I included a section on the development of the 6502 in Part 2 of Supply Chain Games, and have posted it as an excerpt here, as I believe it is deserving in its own right. (Note: MOS Technology is pronounced with the individual letters M-O-S “em oh ess”,[1] not “moss”, and should not be confused with another semiconductor company, Mostek.) Semiconductor Fabrication and the 6502 The 6502 was first deliver

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Survey shows Android 16’s Expressive redesign is a big hit

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-25 21:23:16

Google launched the stable Android 16 update back in June, but we had to wait a few months for the promised Material 3 Expressive redesign to appear. Fortunately, this visual overhaul landed in early September, giving us a fresh coat of paint. Don’t want to miss the best from Android Authority? We recently asked what you thought of this visual redesign. Now that the dust has settled and you’ve had time to explore the update, here’s how you answered that question. Over 3,000 votes were tallied

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iOS 26: Here's How to Change Your iPhone's New Liquid Glass Design

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-26 06:00:04

Apple released iOS 26 on Monday, a few months after the company announced it at the Worldwide Developers Conference in June. The update introduces a handful of new features to your iPhone, like call screening, new ringtones and more. And the biggest change iOS 26 brings to your device is a new Liquid Glass design. Liquid Glass is the biggest visual update Apple has brought to your iPhone since the company released iOS 7 in 2013. The redesign makes menus and other visual elements appear transluc

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iOS 26: How to change Safari toolbar design on iPhone

9to5mac.com Benjamin Mayo 2025-09-26 21:02:14

The iOS 26 Safari browser on iPhone evokes the new design system featuring Liquid Glass, with floating toolbars and buttons that shine through the web page content behind them as you scroll. But Apple has also taken the opportunity to revamp the design of the toolbar UI. By default, iOS 26 now uses a Compact layout which hides away some of the commonly used buttons. However, there’s a way to change it back if you prefer something that looked like the iOS 18 design … For iOS 26, the new default

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Open Source SDR Ham Transceiver Prototype

news.ycombinator.com Wojciech Kaczmarski 2025-09-24 15:38:28

The future is here: LinHT booted up successfully for the first time. We believe that Software Defined Transceivers will be the next big trend in amateur radio. LinHT is the most important hardware project in Amateur Radio today. Bruce Perens, K6BP https://perens.com/2025/08/12/whats-wrong-with-ardc/ The test device has no RF amplifier (although we will include GRF5604 RF amplifier in the next revision, see this). The output power of this test setup is around 5dBm. Frequency range: 420-450MHz

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Wysiwid: What you see is what it does

news.ycombinator.com Daniel Jackson 2025-09-25 03:54:09

Full paper Dividing labor with LLMs. As LLMs get better at writing code, it seems inevitable that there will be less work for human programmers. Thomas Dohmke is right that low-level coding skills will matter less and that “the future belongs to developers who can model systems, anticipate edge cases, and translate ambiguity into structure—skills that AI can’t automate.” Dohmke says “We need to teach abstraction, decomposition, and specification not just as pre-coding steps, but as the new cod

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You didn’t ask for it, but YouTube Music’s Now Playing redesign is here

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-09-29 05:16:29

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR YouTube Music has rolled out a redesign for Now Playing. The redesign relocates control buttons and features, while also introducing a dual-pane design. This redesign is a server-side update. Get ready to relearn where everything is on Now Playing in YouTube Music. After testing a redesign back in November, that new look is arriving in on the app. The redesign repositions control buttons and features, while also introducing a dual-pane design. Don’t want

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Sony’s new Xperia phone jumps on the camera bar bandwagon

theverge.com Dominic Preston 2025-09-30 14:02:52

is a news editor with over a decade’s experience in journalism. He previously worked at Android Police and Tech Advisor. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Sony has announced the Xperia 10 VII, a midrange Android phone that’s launching in the UK, Europe, and Asia, though not the US. It’s more notable than most Sony phones because it marks the first major change to the rear design in over five years: a camera bar, just like recent Pixels, and

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Nothing Ear (3) gets fully revealed with case that has a mic and ‘Talk’ button

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-01 05:59:26

TL;DR Nothing has revealed the full design of the Ear (3) and its charging case. The earbuds retain much of the transparent casing the company is known for, but some metal components were added for a more premium finish. The case now has a microphone and a dedicated “Talk” button. Nothing revealed earlier this week that it would launch the Ear (3) on September 18, which is next Thursday. Not one to wait for announcement events, the company has gone ahead and revealed the full design of its ne

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Reshaped is now open source

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-02 20:32:49

About five years ago, I started Reshaped. I built it for myself, since I had a few projects in urgent need of a component library for both React and Figma. Having worked in the design systems space for over a decade, I had developed a clear sense of what a good design system should be — and what tends to go wrong in others. I noticed that no matter how trends evolve, around 80% of the web is still built on the same core design practices. So I set out to build a system that covers that 80%, whil

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Spigen’s all-new iPhone 17 cases show you don’t have to sacrifice style for protection

9to5mac.com Sponsored Post 2025-10-05 17:00:00

It’s September, and that means the new iPhones are now out! Whether you’re opting for the iPhone Air, iPhone 17, iPhone 17 Pro, or iPhone 17 Pro Max, Spigen is ready with all-new cases that make the new models—and their refreshed iPhone design—look even better. If all you want to do is protect your iPhone, there are many cases to choose from. What makes Spigen stand out is its heritage as a design company, seeking not just to keep your iPhone safe, but to ensure it looks its absolute best. The

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Hyundai’s Latest Concept Car Comes With Subtle ‘Star Wars’ References

gizmodo.com Bruce Gil 2025-10-06 01:50:10

Hyundai just previewed a new concept car at the IAA Mobility trade show in Munich, Germany, and it’s packed with subtle Star Wars nods. The EV, dubbed the Concept THREE, sports a futuristic graphite-silver exterior, yellow-tinted windows, and a moonbeam-yellow interior with purple accents. Concept THREE is Hyundai’s first compact design for its IONIQ line of EVs. Concept cars like this one often serve multiple purposes, including generating buzz, showing off a company’s latest tech, and signal

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How to pre-order the new AirPods Pro 3

engadget.com Unknown 2025-10-06 09:39:20

Since the last update to AirPods, it's been about three years, the length of time Apple usually waits before major hardware upgrades. We expected some big jumps in the new AirPods, and Apple delivered. The Pro 3 brings more health-focused features to AirPods, including a heart rate monitor and calories-burned counter that can feed back to an iPhone or Apple Watch. They've also boosted the audio experience itself, with a new design that mimics surround sound as well as two small earbuds possibly

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Apple announces the ultra-slim iPhone Air

news.ycombinator.com Emma Roth 2025-10-06 09:44:49

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Apple just announced the thinnest iPhone ever, the iPhone Air, which measures just 5.6mm thick. CEO Tim Cook said it promises “pro performance in a thin and light design.” The new iPhone Air comes with a 6.5-inch ProMotion display and a refresh rate of up to 12

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Apple announces the ultra-slim iPhone Air

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-10-06 09:43:17

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Apple just announced the thinnest iPhone ever, the iPhone Air, which measures just 5.6mm thick. CEO Tim Cook said it promises “pro performance in a thin and light design.” The new iPhone Air comes with a 6.5-inch ProMotion display and a refresh rate of up to 12

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Synthesizing Object-Oriented and Functional Design to Promote Re-Use

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-04 13:39:25

Synthesizing Object-Oriented and Functional Design to Promote Re-Use Shriram Krishnamurthi, Matthias Felleisen, Daniel P. Friedman European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, 1998 Abstract Many problems require recursively specified types of data and a collection of tools that operate on those data. Over time, these problems evolve so that the programmer must extend the toolkit or extend the types and adjust the existing tools accordingly. Ideally, this should be done without modifyi

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Hyundai’s out-of-this-world EV concept is a glimpse at the upcoming Ioniq 3

theverge.com Andrew J. Hawkins 2025-10-06 21:34:26

is transportation editor with 10+ years of experience who covers EVs, public transportation, and aviation. His work has appeared in The New York Daily News and City & State. Hyundai is out with a new concept car that previews a smaller EV that could slot below the Ioniq 5. And while the design is pretty bold, and full of what seems to be veiled references to Star Wars, the idea of a smaller (and hopefully less expensive) electric hatchback is surely one of the more grounded ways to approach a d

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Here’s when the Nothing Ear (3) will launch

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-09 01:02:18

TL;DR Nothing has revealed the launch date for the Ear (3). The company’s flagship TWS earbuds will be unveiled on September 18. In a social media post, the firm provided another teaser of the design. Nothing ended last week with a teaser revealing that it plans to launch the Nothing Ear (3) soon. No other details were given, so it was anyone’s guess as to how soon “soon” would actually be. But we now have a definitive answer to that question. Don’t want to miss the best from Android Authori

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Way to Address Product Design Failure

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-06 01:59:15

We live in an age of shitty product design and no customer support. Stuff breaks because it's poorly made, and then you have no recourse but to throw it into the trash, because it's unrepairable. If you try to get someone on the line, it's endless sub-menus before you finally get a live person overseas, who struggles with the language and has not been empowered by their bosses to actually solve your problem. Here, however, we have a product design failure that was handled masterfully. I think

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Gym Class VR (YC W22) Is Hiring – UX Design Engineer

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-10 01:00:26

Role Summary Gym Class is the top rated social sports game on Meta Quest - millions of downloads, 79,000+ reviews, and a 4.9-star rating. We’re hiring our founding UX Design Engineer to drive the development of our upcoming mobile web app (embedded in native), and web surfaces inside our flagship, social VR experience. You’ll own key UX surfaces end-to-end - crafting in Figma, then building responsive, production-grade UI with React/Node/CSS - and you’ll set a clear quality bar for speed, poli

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iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max back design mystery may be solved ahead of Apple event

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-10-11 13:34:09

Earlier this week, we flagged that despite knowing an awful lot about the iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max, there was still a major design mystery going into Apple’s “Awe dropping” event. Now new reporting points to a more dramatic splash in that category. There have been two competing rumors around the design of the iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max backs. Both agree that the camera mound will expand into a full-width camera bar across the top. Where things diverge is the rest of the back: an all-glass cont

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OpenAI could launch its own AI chip next year

theverge.com Robert Hart 2025-10-11 13:31:03

Robert Hart is a London-based reporter at The Verge covering all things AI and Senior Tarbell Fellow. Previously, he wrote about health, science and tech for Forbes. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. OpenAI is on track to start mass production of its own in-house artificial intelligence chips for the first time next year, according to a report from the Financial Times. Unnamed sources tell the outlet that OpenAI designed the chip with US s

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Audi design finds its minimalist groove again with Concept C

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-15 17:11:17

Fans of the TT rejoice—there's a new Audi two-seater on the way. The German automaker just unveiled Concept C, a stylish and minimalist sports car that marks the start of a new styling philosophy and, hopefully, a return to the bold designs that brought it so much success. There are design cues and links back through Audi's history, but this is no pastiche of a retro design as we might have seen from J Mays. Rather, Audi's design team under Chief Creative Officer Massimo Frascella says that the

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The iPhone’s ‘boring’ era officially ends next week

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-10-17 13:36:49

Apple launches new flagship iPhones every year with a variety of upgrades. But after years of relatively stagnant innovation on the design front, the iPhone 17 launch will kick off several years of exciting new innovations that put an end to the recent ‘boring’ iPhone era. iPhone design innovation has long been stagnant, but that era is over If you’ve followed Apple long enough, you likely remember the days when new iPhone announcements came with a lot more optimism and excitement. But more r

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iPhone 17 Pro: Apple’s rumored not-so-clear case design shown in video

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-10-20 04:44:46

Yesterday, leaker Majin Bu revealed that Apple’s iPhone 17 Pro Clear Case may not be so clear after all. A second source has now backed the claim. Sonny Dickson shared a video on social media that shows someone handling what is likely a knockoff case based on Apple’s iPhone 17 Pro Clear Case design. You’ve probably already seen the new iPhone 17 clear case, but here’s another look at it. Would you prefer an all-clear version? pic.twitter.com/jsCPankDkx — Sonny Dickson (@SonnyDickson) September

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