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Superhuman Blog
Company blog · blog.superhuman.comproductivityprogramming
Superhuman Blog is the company blog at blog.superhuman.com, writing about productivity and programming. Since 2016, 32 different Hacker News readers have linked it 50 times, most often “Superhuman is being acquired by Grammarly to build the future of work”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (9) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Superhuman's blog for posts on building fast, keyboard-driven software, including command palettes, dark mode design, search UX and sync engine architecture.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 9 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Straight from the Superhuman team: how we work and what we build.
Most-linked posts?
- Superhuman is being acquired by Grammarly to build the future of work5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2025-07-01
- How to design delightful dark themes3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-10-10
- Building reliable apps on unreliable networks2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-03-21
- The most productive way to brainstorm2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-08-27
- How to build a remarkable command palette2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-10-15
- Superhuman: Read Statuses2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-07-03
- The state of your inbox in 2021: email burnout and browsing in bed2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-04-27
- How You Can Architect Delightful (Client-Side) Search2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-05-09
- Architecting web apps to “just work” offline2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-12-16
What Hacker News says?
> Superhuman's sub-100ms rule—plus their focus on keyboard shortcuts—changed the email game in a way that no one's been able to replicate, let alone beat. https://blog.superhuman.com/superhuman-is-being-acquired-by-... Being fast helps, but is rarely a product.
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on “Fast”Submitted The "five whys" productivity technique as a story · 303 points
HN discussionFun fact: this is how github adds syntax highlighting in its search bar. A while back I built the same syntax highlighting in Shortwave (an email client) using the same “view on top of a transparent input” trick. Pair it all with the following blog, for a top notch search UX https://blog.superhuman.com/delightful-search-more-than-meet...
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on “Show HN: OverType – A Markdown WYSIWYG editor that's just a textarea”Submitted Performance metrics for web apps as a story · 200 points
HN discussionThis is similar to what I wrote about here: https://blog.superhuman.com/architecting-a-web-app-to-just-w...
Comment linking /architecting-a-web-app-to-just-work-offline-part-1-8697f316c0eb
on “Offline First – A Better HTML5 User Experience”Submitted Superhuman: Read Statuses as a story · 169 points
HN discussionSuperhuman | Fullstack Engineer | San Francisco & Vancouver | Full-time | At Superhuman, we're rebuilding the inbox from the ground up to make it extremely fast, delightful, and intelligent — you'll feel like you have superpowers. We're looking for Fullstack Engineers who are deeply invested in building quality software to focus on building out our flagship desktop product. You'll be working heavily on everything th…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2019)”Submitted Advanced Memory Debugging in Closed Source Libraries as a story · 11 points
HN discussionA good article on how to build good Command Palettes: https://blog.superhuman.com/how-to-build-a-remarkable-comman...
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on “Command palettes: how typing commands became the norm again”Submitted Architecting web apps to “just work” offline as a story · 6 points
HN discussionHaving recently worked on adding dark mode to our service [0], we found that the technical implementation was pretty easy (generous use of CSS custom properties and prefers-color-scheme). The design work to make it look good, have proper contrast, etc. is much harder. The article the people at Superhuman wrote [1] is a really good resource for this. [0] https://kitemaker.co [1] https://blog.superhuman.com/how-to-des…
Comment linking /how-to-design-delightful-dark-themes-7b3da644ff1f
on “Show HN: Darken – Darkmode Made Easy”Submitted Overthinking Kills Your Happiness as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSuperhuman has a similar sync engine which is detailed here: https://blog.superhuman.com/architecting-a-web-app-to-just-w...
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on “Linear Mobile – Available for iOS and Android”Submitted How to set goals that you can reach using the SMART framework as a story · 4 points
HN discussion> I enjoy being involved with my company... And you're probably subconsciously aware that it's a dopamine trap[1]. Probably the greatest fallacy of our time is that just because you enjoy something equates with it's good for you (or "if it feels good do it"). I super enjoy a taco bell run at 11PM even after I've hit my TDEE. Notice how that sentence is almost identical in structure, underlying point, and absurdity,…
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on “The barely believable after-work activities of young people in 2002”Submitted How to stop missing important emails and get things done as a story · 4 points
HN discussion> I always assume these trackers use some hidden pixel image when sending emails - but how can they trace the exact person who opened the email? Apparently they use a hidden pixel, i.e. a separate tracking code, for each recipient. There was a discussion about this feature in Super Human: https://blog.superhuman.com/read-statuses-bdf0cc34b6a5
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on “Ask HN: How do some email clients track 'who read' the email?”Submitted How to build a remarkable command palette as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to run your startup in a recession as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to design delightful dark themes as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted How You Can Architect Delightful (Client-Side) Search as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Productivity secrets from legendary leaders you can copy as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Need a habit tracker? Here are 8 top picks as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Procrastination makes you even more productive as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is the key to increasing productivity psychological or technological? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The most productive way to brainstorm as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to tell a billion dollar story as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to eliminate regular expression denial of service as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to design delightful dark themes as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to design delightful dark themes as a story · 3 points
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