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Re:Ferrari Luce – Designed with Jony Ive on Tuesday May 26, 2026 @03:18AM (#48276239)
The companion app, showcased at the middle of the page, looks surprisingly under-designed, despite LoveFrom having some of the best UI designers in the world.
Re:"Your" vs. "My" in user interfaces on Tuesday September 16, 2025 @03:50AM (#45259292)
Even their product names follow this pattern, leading to long and childish app names: "Mon espace santé" (My health space), "Mon espace France Travail"

This kind of soft infantilization, especially coming from the government, has always been rubbing me the wrong way.

Re:Kintsugi – Art of Repair on Monday December 13, 2021 @07:19PM (#29546565)
Thank you!
Re:Kintsugi – Art of Repair on Monday December 13, 2021 @07:16PM (#29546537)
Impressive collection, thanks!
Re:Kintsugi – Art of Repair on Monday December 13, 2021 @06:42PM (#29546242)
Most of the kintsugi photos on Wikipedia do not state the date nor the origin of the object they depict, except for one, so I'm looking for something a bit more substantial.
Re:Kintsugi – Art of Repair on Monday December 13, 2021 @05:43PM (#29545655)
I'm slightly doubtful that this is an authentic thing (by which I mean: "actually practiced in the 15th/16th centuries"). Most of the content around this technique on the web is not in Japanese, and even the Japanese Wikipedia entry about it [0] is quite terse.

Or maybe it's just that non-Japanese people have more interest in it than Japanese do?

If anyone has more knowledge about kintsugi, I would love some historical references which confirm that this technique was actually used in the past.

[0]: https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%87%91%E7%B6%99%E3%81%8E

Re:1Password for Mac Moving to Electron on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @03:19PM (#28146426)
Hiding the standalone version purchase link helps them justify the move to a subscription-only service:

> The overwhelming majority of people (97% in fact) choose to subscribe to our new service and many of those who initially purchased a license later changed their mind and traded it in for a membership.

(Source: https://1password.community/discussion/comment/601917/#Comme...)

Which is quite dishonest IMO.

Re:What I learnt after burning $10M as an entrepreneur on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @07:34AM (#26645940)
This thread is missing a link to the actual product, so here it is: https://www.getflow.com/

They launched a new version last fall: https://www.getflow.com/blog/flow-x-is-launching-in-septembe...

Re:Rediscovering the Small Web on Thursday May 28, 2020 @03:40AM (#23334558)
Related: http://tilde.club/

> tilde.club is not a social network it is one tiny totally standard unix computer that people respectfully use together in their shared quest to build awesome web pages

And the story behind it: https://medium.com/message/tilde-club-i-had-a-couple-drinks-...

Reminds me of this old Mac and iPad app: https://acrylicapps.com/pulp/
Re:Diagrams: A diagram editor for the Mac on Wednesday August 29, 2018 @09:34AM (#17868072)
Not exactly what you might be looking for, but check out https://monodraw.helftone.com/ and http://asciiflow.com/
Re:Airbnb's new typeface on Tuesday May 15, 2018 @04:46PM (#17077723)
Will this typeface be only used for the UI and marketing, or also for Airbnb's logo[1]?

[1]: https://press.atairbnb.com/media-assets/?categ=Logos

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2017) on Friday December 01, 2017 @04:20PM (#15827606)
Téléprocédures simplifiées | Ruby on Rails developer | Paris , France | Onsite | https://tps.apientreprise.fr/

We're building a government-backed Google Forms for the french administration: we help public actor digitalize their forms and thus help public agents as well as citizens and companies save time.

We're a small team (3 developers) looking for another Ruby on Rails developer to help us ship new features, implement our new UI, and improve the quality of our codebase.

Stack: Rails 5, RSpec, GitHub, CircleCI (CI + CD), Sentry, Skylight. Our code is open source: https://github.com/sgmap/tps

Apply: [email protected]

Indeed, the map is hard to parse. I think that this presentation gives good advice regarding maps design: https://speakerdeck.com/cherdarchuk/data-looks-better-naked-...
It's more Trello than a CRM, but there are https://jobtrack.io/ and http://huntr.co/
Re:YC Annual Letter 2017 on Thursday February 16, 2017 @02:41PM (#13662904)
Exactly, typography is a subject that is very dear to my heart.

And while I agree that it may be a personal preference, there is a side effect to using double spaces: layout engines consider single spaces the default for their line breaking algorithm, and sometimes, when using double spacing, new sentences start at a new line with a space before the first letter which, in this very case, looks weird and therefore hinders readability.

Re:YC Annual Letter 2017 on Thursday February 16, 2017 @01:01PM (#13662059)
Is there a reason why this is published on Sam's blog and not on YC's blog?

Oh and a remark on the letter's typography: the double spaces after periods should be single spaces.

Re:Google Trips is a killer travel app for the modern tourist on Monday September 19, 2016 @03:00PM (#12533820)
I hope they'll make a desktop web version of this app, because planning everything (what you want to see, where you want to eat, etc.) on a small screen is tedious.

For all my previous trips I have used Google My Maps [0], which is good but not great: on mobile, the places you added to your layers don't contain any Google Maps information, such as opening hours, and you even need to have data to get the name of a place you saved.

However, what's great with My Maps compared to Trips, in addition to the fact that there is a desktop web app, is that thanks to layers you can color-code the places you add to your map, so for example make all the museums pins purple, the restaurants pins blue, etc.

[0]: https://www.google.com/mymaps/

Re:Bros Before Homes on Saturday July 02, 2016 @10:05PM (#12024546)
This article is really, really, bad. It makes a gratuitous generalisation from a single example. Yes, the “Tony” who wrote the “Hey, big spender” essay upon which this article is based sounds like a huge douchebag who asks his mother to do his laundry so he can enjoy “experiences”, but I don’t see how you can infer from this that everyone who lives a minimalist lifestyle is doing the exact same thing.

I do believe that sexism is still very much present in our society, but I don’t see how minimalism has anything to do with it, and the article provides no explanation as to how they might be linked.

A more interesting approach on minimalism would be to ask “are all minimalists rich people who cut back on their possessions”, which is also something that “Tony” could be an illustration of, and which seems more plausible:

- another rich-guy-turned-minimalist is mentioned in the article [0]

- an opinion piece from the NYT on the subject was written by someone with a similar profile [1]

- the New Yorker even published a comic on this [2]

What’s interesting about this other angle is that you can then discuss why this “get rid of all your belongings” advice might not apply to everyone, especially poor people, despite what some minimalists might think.

[0] http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/09/fashion/whit-stillman-dire...

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/10/opinion/sunday/living-with...

[2] http://i.imgur.com/gJVaMXb.png

EDIT: typos and formatting

Re:Ask HN: What would you want in an ideal web browser? on Monday August 17, 2015 @07:02AM (#10072300)
Caching might be the best way to do it.
Re:Ask HN: What would you want in an ideal web browser? on Monday August 17, 2015 @04:45AM (#10071888)
Full text history search.
Re:Google launches Uber rival RideWith on Monday July 06, 2015 @09:53AM (#9839046)
The title is misleading. RideWith isn't a direct Uber rival, as it's a feature of the Waze app matching people doing similar trips on a regular basis. It is therefore closer to ride sharing/carpooling than to private transportation.

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