[HN Gopher] Beautiful, boring, and without soul
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Beautiful, boring, and without soul
Author : alfirous
Score : 35 points
Date : 2025-02-17 10:51 UTC (2 days ago)
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| PStamatiou wrote:
| Great article. This is especially true for every new product
| slapping on an input field for LLM chat in the same way.
| namshe wrote:
| Author and readers might enjoy this piece by Christopher
| Alexander - A City is not a tree:
| https://www.patternlanguage.com/archive/cityisnotatree.html
| dang wrote:
| Related:
|
| _A City Is Not a Tree (1965)_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21916408 - Dec 2019 (17
| comments)
|
| _A City Is Not a Tree (1965) [pdf]_ -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9970090 - July 2015 (7
| comments)
| munchler wrote:
| The subtle irony of this long article on organic beauty that
| slowly turns into a discussion of... consumer product design.
| datadrivenangel wrote:
| And not in an interesting or especially soulful way. Claiming
| that many things are soulless is probably correct, but naming
| the quality that cannot be named without even admitting that
| it's all _AESTHETICS_ is kind of sloppy.
| johnnyjeans wrote:
| I couldn't get more than a few paragraphs into the article. This
| is possibly the most egregious example of unusably low
| information density I've ever seen.
| tardismechanic wrote:
| > What could be more important in life than how you make people
| feel?
|
| Food, water, shelter, survival, comfort, security.
|
| Is this a joke?
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