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Re:If you want to create a button from scratch, you must first create ... on Thursday July 16, 2026 @07:01AM (#48932866)
Even in the absence of designers' desire to play with established UI: humans respond positively to a mix of accessible novelty and familiar patterns.

Knowing when to apply novelty and when to apply the familiar is the game.

Re:The Future Worth Building Is Human – Thinking Machines Lab on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @08:34AM (#48905839)
The advent of thinking machines only replaces human thinking if humans choose to stop thinking.
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026) on Monday July 13, 2026 @09:11AM (#48892144)
Let me know what you think!
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026) on Monday July 13, 2026 @08:08AM (#48891452)
Just published the first version of cardspark_ui [1], a library of polished, themable UI components for TCG apps. Kind of like shadcn for pokémon cards

I worked at a startup [2] building in the space for a few years and it reignited my childhood love for collecting and trading, and turned me on to the software side of the industry.

We're in a little golden age of DIY collecting tools now, but most hobbyists and sellers don't have a design background and get stuck recreating the same primitives (badly).

I spent a lot of time thinking about them, so I'm packaging them up and offering them for free. This first release has the basics (cards, grids, stacks, filters, value charts, detail pages), with more coming soon.

[1]: https://cardspark.dev

[2]: https://rarecandy.com

Show HN: A design collaboration layer for local LLM CLIs

Posted by reb on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @11:30AM
from the show-hn dept.

https://github.com/popmelt/core

Hey, I'm Rebekah and I'm building Popmelt, a browser-native toolkit for UI engineering with local LLM CLIs*tl;dr* Popmelt gives UI engineers and designers a lightweight set of visual feedback and styling/layout tools that talk directly to local LLM CLI instances so you can create and refine your product directly in the browser. This first version is built for React (I've mainly used it with...

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Re:Text Is King on Monday January 26, 2026 @08:14AM (#46765243)
Amen. It's one real "downside" in this day and age is that it requires fairly undivided attention to be used... that aside, it's without question my favorite way to interact with information.

On that note, a big thank you to whoever added "read this page" to Safari on iOS! Being able to turn long form articles into ad-hoc podcasts has been a game changer for me.