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John Maeda
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John Maeda's personal blog at maeda.pm covers design, business and culture. Since 2019, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-25, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The comments are bare links, a URL-change note, or replies that cite the posts without judging them. The linked posts cover the 1985 Inside Macintosh book, ELIZA, and visual anagrams and optical illusions.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Thoughts on Product Management, Data Science, Experience and Design, Life and Business
What Hacker News says?
Url changed from https://maeda.pm/2019/02/09/inside-macintosh-1985/ , which points to this.
Comment linking /2019/02/09/inside-macintosh-1985/
on “Inside Macintosh (1985) [pdf]”Submitted 2023 Design in Tech Report [pdf] as a story · 1 points
HN discussionOh thanks, but I don't think that I have much to contribute. I had been musing about a faithful ElIZA emulation a few years ago, but ELIZAGEN put somewhat an end to this. "Moiré logic" was a joke, meaning, an interference pattern caused by two layers of logical state. Well, there's actually one thing, I can contribute: The famous photo of Weizenbaum on a terminal (sometimes attributed to the German magazine "Die Zei…
Comment linking /2019/02/11/joseph-weizenbaum-humanist-technologist/
on “ELIZA is Turing Complete”Submitted My Favorite Teamwork Quotes as a story · 1 points
HN discussionFrom the HN "Boustrophedon" discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15539373 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boustrophedon https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15547162 DonHopkins on Oct 25, 2017 | prev | next [–] Scott Kim has a wonderful talent at designing "ambigrams". Check out his classic book "Inversions" and his gallery of more recent work! http://www.scottkim.com.previewc40.carrierzone.com/inversion..…
Comment linking /2017/12/17/scott-kims-ambigrams/
on “Visual Anagrams: Generating Optical Illusions with Diffusion Models”
