Hacker News with Generative AI: Design

Jony Ive's AI Product 'Third Core Device' After MacBook and iPhone (macrumors.com)
Details have leaked about the device that OpenAI is developing with former Apple designer Jony Ive. OpenAI is acquiring io, the hardware-based AI startup co-created by Jony Ive, and the first product is one of a family of devices the company intends to launch.
Artificial Intelligence, Hardware, Apple, Design, Startups
3 points by retskrad 15 hours ago | 2 comments
Zoo Design Studio v1: A New Stack for Mechanical CAD (zoo.dev)
Every generation or so, someone rebuilds the geometric foundation of mechanical CAD (MCAD). It happened in 1988 with Parasolid2, in 1989 with ACIS3, and, until today, the last major commercial geometry engine to reach mainstream adoption was well over a decade ago. Most modern CAD still runs on Siemens’ Parasolid from the late ’80s4.
Software, CAD, Mechanical Engineering, Design
9 points by jessfraz 2 days ago | 0 comments
Dieter Rams Turns 93 (instagram.com)
Design, Industrial Design, Product Design, Germany
3 points by bch 3 days ago | 1 comments
Tokyo Architect's 7 Level Compact Home, 59sqm/635sqft [video] (youtube.com)
Architecture, Design, Japan, Video
8 points by doener 3 days ago | 1 comments
Button-sized eggs and teapot cities: A peek into the big, WW of miniatures (npr.org)
Miniatures are huge right now.
Miniatures, Art, Culture, Design
4 points by rolph 4 days ago | 0 comments
Show HN: Windows 98 themed website in 1 HTML file for my post punk band (corp.band)
Experience the invigorating power of CORP.
Web Development, Music, Design, Humor
204 points by jealousgelatin 4 days ago | 40 comments
Material 3 Expressive (material.io)
Design, User Interfaces, Google, Material Design
54 points by nativeforks 4 days ago | 53 comments
Graffiti Art (graffitiart.app)
Create professional graffiti art with our AI graffiti generator. Transform text into stunning graffiti letters and custom designs in seconds. Perfect for artists, designers, and creators.
Artificial Intelligence, Design, Art, Graphics
7 points by xbaicai 5 days ago | 1 comments
Mystical (suberic.net)
I wanted to make a programming language that resembled magical circles. This is more like a way to write PostScript that looks like a magical circle, but I will refer to it as Mystical in this document.
Programming Languages, Esoteric Languages, Art, Design
439 points by mmphosis 6 days ago | 45 comments
Women's Pockets are Inferior. (2018) (pudding.cool)
There are few things more frustrating than collecting your belongings only to realize that the pockets in your pants are too small to hold them. Or worse, the fabric designed to look like a pocket is merely for decoration and doesn’t open at all.
Fashion, Design, Gender Issues
10 points by Tomte 6 days ago | 2 comments
My favourite fonts to use with LaTeX (2022) (lfe.pt)
TeX and related systems are often associated with their default fonts, Donald Knuth’s Computer Modern (CM) typefaces. While these fonts are excellent, they have become so ubiquitous in the scientific community that many LaTeX users have sought alternative fonts for their documents.
LaTeX, Fonts, Typography, Design, Science
192 points by todsacerdoti 6 days ago | 51 comments
Really Really Simple "Pure CSS" Squircles (github.com)
Pure CSS Squircle has always been the fantasy of a web developer's good nights sleep.
Web Development, CSS, Design
8 points by pmkary 7 days ago | 0 comments
Font Activations: A Note on the Type (robhorning.substack.com)
In the colophon of the mass-market, pocket-paperback copy of Georges Lefebvre’s The Coming of the French Revolution that I’ve been reading for no particular reason appears the note on the type pictured above.
Typography, Design, Books
55 points by prismatic 7 days ago | 8 comments
An In-Room Mosquito Tracking Device That Lets You Easily Kill Them (core77.com)
This hilarious and useful device is for tracking mosquitoes within a space.
Smart Home, Insects, Technology, Design
19 points by surprisetalk 7 days ago | 5 comments
Building my npx business card (ashley.dev)
While I was building ashley.dev, I wanted it to feel genuine, more like a reflection of me, and less like a standard portfolio.
Personal Websites, Design, Web Development
8 points by edent 7 days ago | 11 comments
Internet Phone Book (internetphonebook.net)
An annual publication for exploring the vast poetic web, featuring essays, musings and a directory with the personal websites of hundreds of designers, developers, writers, curators, and educators. Published since 2025.
Internet, Art, Design, Web Development, Education
28 points by surprisetalk 8 days ago | 1 comments
The Cybertruck was supposed to be apocalypse-proof (theguardian.com)
The Cybertruck answers a question no one in the auto industry even thought to ask: what if there was a truck that a Chechen warlord couldn’t possibly pass up – a bulletproof, bioweapons-resistant, road rage-inducing street tank that’s illegal to drive in most of the world?
Cybertruck, Tesla, Automotive Industry, Design, Humor
16 points by n1b0m 9 days ago | 16 comments
The Airplane 'Barf Bag' Is a Genius Invention Most People Never Think About (theautopian.com)
Every day, the Federal Aviation Administration manages an average of 45,000 flights covering 29 million square miles of airspace. On average, 2.9 million people board an airliner to go somewhere in America every day. It’s inevitable that at least some of those people are going to get sick.
Aviation, Design, Travel, Health
7 points by NaOH 10 days ago | 6 comments
Android and Wear OS are getting a redesign (google)
Material 3 Expressive is making using your phone and watch more fluid, personal and glanceable.
Android, Wear OS, Design, User Interface, Google
61 points by whatever3 10 days ago | 139 comments
Google just changed its 'G' logo (theverge.com)
Google has updated its colorful “G” logo for the first time in almost a decade.
Google, Logos, Branding, Design
14 points by etruong42 10 days ago | 10 comments
Material 3 Expressive (design.google)
Material 3 Expressive is the most researched update to Google’s design system, ever. Here, Material researchers share the data behind the designs and new insights into users’ preference for emotion-driven UX.
Design, Google, Research
359 points by meetpateltech 10 days ago | 557 comments
Why do Saturation and Luminance go all the way to 240, but Hue goes only to 239 (microsoft.com)
If you open the common Color Picker dialog, the custom color picker lets you specify the color in one of three ways.
Color Theory, User Interface, Design, Web Development
10 points by todsacerdoti 10 days ago | 3 comments
Google accidentally leaks Material 3 Expressive UI ahead of Android 16 (indiatimes.com)
Google accidentally revealed the details about its upcoming Android design language, Material 3 Expressive, ahead of the official announcement.
Android, Design, Google, Material Design
11 points by byte-bolter 10 days ago | 0 comments
The Barbican (arslan.io)
Three years ago, while searching for Vitsoe setups, I stumbled upon Barbican. I delved deeper and discovered a building complex that that was beyond my imaginations.
Architecture, Design, London
728 points by farslan 11 days ago | 255 comments
Reviving a modular cargo bike design from the 1930s (core77.com)
French mobility company Cyclauto has gone through the history books to revive an alternate design from the 1930s.
Transportation, Design, History, France
233 points by surprisetalk 11 days ago | 181 comments
An online exhibition of pretty software bugs (glitchgallery.org)
Welcome to the Glitch Gallery, an online exhibition of pretty software bugs! This is a museum of accidental art, an enthusiastic embrace of mistakes, a celebration of emergent beauty.
Software Bugs, Art, Design, Online Exhibitions
124 points by tobr 12 days ago | 7 comments
A visual history of the safety pin (museumofeverydaylife.org)
Walter Hunt (1796-1859) was a mechanic living in New York state, a prolific inventor, a man whose ethics and humility prevented him from profiting greatly from his inventions.
History, Design, Inventions
32 points by andsoitis 12 days ago | 11 comments
Jony Ive's next product is driven by the 'unintended consequences' of the iPhone (theverge.com)
Former Apple designer Jony Ive says the work on his next product is driven by owning the “unintended consequences” associated with the iPhone.
Jony Ive, Apple, Design, Smartphones, Technology
17 points by emot 12 days ago | 21 comments
Show HN: PLAttice, for assembling structures much larger than the 3D printer bed (zachfred.in)
PLAttice: it's an assembled lattice, built entirely out of 3D printed parts made from PLA.
3D Printing, Hardware, Open Source, Design, Construction
24 points by zakqwy 13 days ago | 6 comments
When graphic design saves lives (news.harvard.edu)
Harvard Library has digitized more than 3,000 posters related to a single major public health crisis: the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
Design, Public Health, History, HIV/AIDS
32 points by gnabgib 13 days ago | 4 comments