Hacker News with Generative AI: Design Principles

The Rise of Worse Is Better (1991) (dreamsongs.com)
I and just about every designer of Common Lisp and CLOS has had extreme exposure to the MIT/Stanford style of design. The essence of this style can be captured by the phrase the right thing.
Visual Variables are a specified set of symbols that can be applied to data (infovis-wiki.net)
CSS Classes Considered Harmful (keithcirkel.co.uk)
Why We Build Simple Software (pickcode.io)
Visual design rules you can safely follow every time (anthonyhobday.com)