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tristanb··on Ferrari Luce
Dieter Rams @ Braun. Ive REALLY likes his designs. https://medium.com/design-bootcamp/the-design-continuum-6494...
tristanb··on Ferrari Luce
What did you expect? Braun didn't design any cars.
tristanb··on Incident Report: May 19, 2026 – GCP Account Suspension
"Your customers don't care whether the failure was Google or Railway; they see your product. Your uptime is our responsibility, and we'll keep delivering on it." - Thanks Claude!
tristanb··on Gemini Omni
Me too - awesome job.
tristanb··on Refuse to let your doctor record you
This is a really great way to get yourself worse care.
tristanb··on SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B
any IDE you like and Claude code - i have no idea why you'd want to use something like Cursor, it's time came and went.
tristanb··on Israeli soldiers using sexual assault to force Palestinians out of West Bank
Why?
tristanb··on Anthropic says OpenClaw-style Claude CLI usage is allowed again
Maybe it’s allowed because they built the ability to direct the costs to your extra usage budget, not your monthly subscription?
tristanb··on John Ternus to become Apple CEO
Google has one of the worst commercial UX of any products I've ever used.
tristanb··on Delve – Hawaii Edition – Part II
Interesting
tristanb··on Claude Design
Haven’t found it yet. The component parts seems to be close. Opus is much better at drawing SVG than it used to be.
tristanb··on Claude Design
To be fair, i did not ask for a logo with a pelican in it.
tristanb··on Claude Design
My feedback for whatever it's worth as a 25yr design veteran.

* Massive token usage, some small tasks burned through $50 of credits and did not offer $50 of value.

* Terrible at logo work. Comically bad. This is something that is "hard" so it could add great value if it could deliver.

* Repeatedly forgot prior feedback - when iterating it would re-implement prior iterations after being told why we didn't want that result which made for a very frustrating UX.

* Prone to adding visual clutter - kept adding extra elements that look "pretty" but add no value to the user.

* Seems better at "pretty" vs user focused / UX.

* Did not do a good job at using my existing design / UI library

* REALLY wanted to start from scratch. Could not be coaxed into designing part of an application, it wanted to redesign the whole thing.

tristanb··on Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?
Me too! I love the view up there.
tristanb··on Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans
You're absolutely right...
tristanb··on Ford Has Steered Its Former EV Truck and Plant Plans in to a Ditch
Yeah but then you can't put a snorkel on it and extraction boards and expedition gas cans so you can advertise how adventurous you are in your spare time.
tristanb··on Two things LLM coding agents are still bad at
Three - CSS.
tristanb··on Oakland cops gave ICE license plate data; SFPD also illegally shared with feds
If the data on that site is correct, it says 26%.
tristanb··on Oakland cops gave ICE license plate data; SFPD also illegally shared with feds
50% are criminals? Do you have a source for that?
tristanb··on Websites hosting major US climate reports taken down
Got any sources for that bro?
tristanb··on Freight rail fueled a new luxury overnight train startup
I wish someone would bring back the Snow train that used to go SF -> Sugarbowl.
tristanb··on Claude 4
Nice - it might know about Svelte 5 finally...
tristanb··on OpenAI looked at buying Cursor creator before turning to Windsurf
Oh man - I love Windsurf, but only use Claude in there. This doesn't sound like great news to me.
tristanb··on The Last Drops of Mexico City
Desalination plants produce a lot of brine, which you need to dispose of. You can't just put it back in the sea without killing marine life. It's not a simple problem to solve.
tristanb··on Cities can cost effectively start their own utilities
I am so sick of PG&E - our energy bills are nearly $1,000/mo. It's absolutely bonkers.
tristanb··on Tesla sales plummet in the UK, France, and Germany
That is such a wonderful quote from you asking if you can name examples of him signalling Nazism, apart from the Nazi salute he gave three times to the entire crowd of the inauguration and on national tv.
tristanb··on Code reviews: A success story
Should be pretty seamless. We may make stacked PRs more of a first class experience in the future.
tristanb··on Code reviews: A success story
Shameless plug, but we built http://CodePeer.com - to bring Critique like features to everyone else. Take it for a spin if you like!
tristanb··on Mom jailed for letting 10-year-old walk alone to town
When I was 8? I think, I used to take a bus to go get a VHS tape from the local rental shop. It's important for kids to have autonomy. In Japan, its pretty common to send even younger kids out on errands.
tristanb··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (October 2024)
https://CodePeer.com - An AI-assisted code review platform that manages the lifecycle of a PR. We make sure everyone knows whose turn it is, we show you only what needs to be reviewed, and all historical edits and comments are intelligently presented. We say “AI-assisted” because it’s a human-first approach to design - that said, you can use AI to do everything from making simple code suggestions to executing the entire review for you.
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