Hacker News with Generative AI: Aesthetics

Why does everything look infantilized? (assemblagenyc.substack.com)
If you’re like me, you have been bemoaning that they “just don’t make things like they used to.”

Design, Aesthetics, Nostalgia, Culture

18 points by futuraperdita 9 days ago | 7 comments

We are still using 88x31 buttons (ultrasciencelabs.com)
If you surf the modern "small web" to any extent you've encountered 88x31 buttons - a staple of late 90s and early 2000's websites1 undergoing a bit of a revival. The Neocities community especially seems to have truly embraced them. 88x31 buttons have a long history on the web, straddling the worlds of advertising and the personal web.

Web Design, Retro Technology, Internet History, Aesthetics

142 points by PaulHoule 21 days ago | 55 comments

In Your Face: The Brutal Aesthetics of MAGA (motherjones.com)
In the early morning hours of January 28, as dozens of Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers arrived in New York to round up undocumented immigrants, a shimmering Kristi Noem appeared in the Bronx.

Politics, Immigration, Aesthetics, United States

18 points by bryanrasmussen 21 days ago | 6 comments

Cassette Futurism (wikipedia.org)
Cassette Futurism bezeichnet eine ästhetische Richtung im Retro-Futurismus, die von der Technologie und dem Design der späten 1970er bis frühen 1980er Jahre inspiriert ist[1][2].

Art, Design, Retrofuturism, Aesthetics, 1970s-1980s

8 points by doener 65 days ago | 0 comments

Beautiful, boring, and without soul (doc.cc)
What could be more important in life than how you make people feel?

Design, Aesthetics, Philosophy, Human Connection

57 points by alfirous 68 days ago | 13 comments

When Abundance Breeds Mediocrity (nvnt.substack.com)
In Japanese philosophy, "wabi-sabi" embraces the beauty of imperfection and the wisdom found in limitations.

Japanese Philosophy, Culture, Aesthetics, Mediocrity

5 points by pachakuthira 85 days ago | 0 comments

All Lisp indentation schemes are ugly (aartaka.me)
Once you get used to Lisp, you stop noticing the parentheses and rely on indentation instead.

Programming Languages, Lisp, Aesthetics

117 points by birdculture 96 days ago | 98 comments

The sad beige aesthetic: why has the world suddenly turned taupe? (theguardian.com)
Whether it’s oat, bone, sand or fawn, this colour palette has a strong anaesthetising effect – and it has become the leading fashion and interiors style of our era

Fashion, Interior Design, Color Trends, Aesthetics

35 points by n1b0m 107 days ago | 65 comments

The enduring power of kitsch (bbc.com)
Modern art was born from a desire to destroy kitsch, but time and again it is drawn back to its lure, says Roger Scruton.

Art, Aesthetics, Culture, History

34 points by breathenew 130 days ago | 16 comments

You need 4 colors (iamsajid.com)
You need 4 colors

Design, Color Theory, Web Design, Aesthetics

180 points by s4i 136 days ago | 133 comments

Permacomputing Aesthetic in Computational Art, Design and Culture (2023) [pdf] (monoskop.org)

Computational Art, Design, Culture, Computer Science, Aesthetics

17 points by sph 196 days ago | 2 comments

Notepat – Aesthetic Computer (aesthetic.computer)
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Design, Aesthetics, Software

176 points by justanothersys 225 days ago | 40 comments

Cellar Door: a quest to find the most beautiful word in English (cellar-door.co.uk)