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Nick Arner

Personal blog · nickarner.com/notesdesignprogrammingai

Nick Arner's personal blog at nickarner.com covers design, programming and ai. Since 2019, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times, most often “LLM Powered Assistants for Complex Interfaces”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-06, and you can follow it by feed.

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17mentions?
7HN people?
2019–2024first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 6 in 2023

Nick Arner works across engineering and design, building visual tools, sensor-driven interfaces, and on-device AI prototypes and products.

Most-linked posts?

  1. LLM Powered Assistants for Complex Interfaces
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-02-26
  2. The Coming of Local LLMs
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-03-24

What Hacker News says?

  1. atroyn · 2022-05-21

    Submitted Visual Debugging Now as a story · 22 points

    HN discussion
  2. narner · 2021-10-24

    Submitted Show HN: Some Thoughts on Interfaces as a story · 12 points

    HN discussion
  3. narner · 2022-04-07

    Submitted Show HN: The Causes of Latency in Computing Systems, and Why It Frustrates Us as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  4. narner · 2019-09-22

    Submitted Show HN: Things a First Time PM Should Know About iOS Development as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  5. yarapavan · 2023-04-11

    Submitted The Coming of Local LLMs as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  6. azhenley · 2023-03-24

    Submitted The Coming of Local LLMs as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. narner · 2022-12-22

    Submitted A personal history of visual programming environments (2021) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  8. narner · 2022-05-02

    Submitted Show HN: Push Notifications and the Tyrany of Stolen Attention as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. narner · 2021-11-16

    Submitted Working with Server-Sent Events in Swift as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  10. narner · 2021-11-13

    Submitted A personal history of visual programming environments (2021) as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  11. narner · 2024-08-26

    Submitted Submit HN: Working with Opus in Swift as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  12. sapsan · 2023-10-21

    Submitted Keeping Time in San Francisco as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  13. billconan · 2023-02-27

    Submitted LLM Powered Assistants for Complex Interfaces as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  14. azhenley · 2023-02-26

    Submitted LLM Powered Assistants for Complex Interfaces as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  15. sebg · 2023-02-09

    Submitted Angel Investing Notes as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  16. narner · 2021-10-30

    Submitted Show HN: Revisiting Old Work – SOLI Sketches as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  17. narner · 2020-06-09

    Submitted Show HN: Writing Should Be Part of Your Team's Development Culture as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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