Hacker News with Generative AI: Complexity

Postcards from the Peak of Complexity [video] (youtube.com)
Tog's Paradox (votito.com)
Tog’s Paradox (also known as The Complexity Paradox or Tog’s Complexity Paradox) is an observation that products aiming to make a task more efficient tend to inspire new, more complex use cases.
Daniel Lemire on the complexity of Java build tools (twitter.com)
Complexity as Design Material (arxiv.org)
Complexity is often seen as a inherent negative in information design, with the job of the designer being to reduce or eliminate complexity, and with principles like Tufte's "data-ink ratio" or "chartjunk" to operationalize minimalism and simplicity in visualizations.
Handling complexity without abstraction: Algebraic Bricklaying C (github.com/gritzko)
Merchants of Complexity (world.hey.com)
Merchants of Complexity (world.hey.com)
Merchants of Complexity (world.hey.com)
The First Law of Complexodynamics (2011) (scottaaronson.blog)
Complex systems emerge from simple rules (tecnica.substack.com)
Counting Complexity (2017) (breckyunits.com)
Reading dies in complexity: Online news consumers prefer simple writing (science.org)
A Note on Essential Complexity (olano.dev)
Complexity fills the space it's given (medium.com)
The new math of how large-scale order emerges (quantamagazine.org)
Three Laws of Software Complexity (bitbucket.io)
Simplicity is an advantage but sadly complexity sells better (2022) (eugeneyan.com)
Causality, Interaction, and Complexity (alexahn.com)