dmundhra

Hi - I am trying to create a tool for product designers to learn and review their design. What I am looking to do is to allow designers to create a design, and pass it on to a tool to get feedback. Currently OpenAI and Anthropic models aren't that great at looking at UI elements and understanding their relationship and hierarchy (like font weights, shadows, symmetry, etc..). Any suggestions on how such a problem can be solved?

Hi Hackers! I am working on a problem on a code review tool for designers and have a use case I am trying to solve with GenAI but not able to solve well. LLM models are trained on huge corpus of text, and many multimodal models also on images with text caption that can identify objects in the images. However, models are not necessarily trained on more abstract visual concepts like aesthetics, contrast, symmetry or such concepts. If I want to take an app design and ask a model to provide feedback on it from a design perspective, what might be some ways to do it using GenAI, where it can also give pointers on design and aesthetics (like contrasts, font sizes, symmetry, etc..)?

I understand it's slightly open-ended, and "design is very subjective", but at the same time there are very good principles for design so it seems plausible that the design languages and principles can be codified?

I am looking to create a board where one side of the board can be played remotely and the pieces can be moved on a board automatically based on an electric input. What I am trying to understand is what technology can help in this.

So the problem statement is that if there is a board with many pieces on it, and I need to move a specific piece to a specific position, how can that be done? In my research so far, I have come across piezoelectric actuators and magnetic levitation but not sure if either of these or any other technology can help to create such an apparatus.

Looking for examples or pointers to technology that could help to accomplish something like this.

The yahoo india account is the main business account running for past 15yrs in the family and getting active communication from customers. The account was recently hacked and when reported on x.com, the account was suspended but it can't be accessed now. There is no way to get help esp because this is a Indian account and the support in India isn't there. Paid support is from US and a few other geographies only. Any inputs here would be immensely helpful

Environment, people, technology are changing rapidly. What are some worthwhile problems or ideas that you think would be important to solve or work on by end of the decade.

Hi!

I had launched a product around effective hiring recently and have been lucky to get some customer usage and feedback from the early community. One of the recurring feedbacks has been around in which direction should the product grow - as a SaaS, as a network or something in the middle.

Extrapolating many of the discussions has led to some kind of a “of the people, by the people, for the people” professional network to create an environment to help each other and grow professionally (likely the extrapolation got weighed seeing HN community grow! :)).

We have all seen LinkedIn change a lot in the last decade as well, from being a profile listing page to a social network with the same network dynamics and similar content as other social networks now. It’s still great as a profile listing page, but I personally don’t find it much useful - unless trying to sell something and send lots of messages to leads.

So my question is what would an alternative LinkedIn look like? Some thoughts I had are:

- make the connections much more richer which can be leveraged to get jobs, discuss opportunities, references (this is what my current product is trying to do) - make the network a bit self-governing and regulating to make it more useful for everyone (when LinkedIn/HN launched there were no tokens, now there are!). eg get paid to receive sales messages, credits for recommendations to roles, etc.. - remove peer pressure of adding people to network

Would love to discuss how an alternate professional network of 2023 should look like!

Hi, just sharing an observation I had recently, not sure if it's an anomaly with my post or a more common pattern.

Recently I had posted a Show HN link via news.ycombinator.com webapp but that post died in a couple of hours and I wasn't able to put a comment on that either like I have seen in other Show HNs. Nor were other HN accounts able to see it

However, when I posted the same link again via an unofficial native app on Android, I was able to put a comment also, as well as other HN accounts could view the post. Just curious if anyone else faced something similar?

Hi - I want to learn how you manage to do knowledge transfer in tech teams when people are leaving or new folks joining? Is it more of keeping things documented in Confluence or something, or are there any better processes or methods to do it?

Hi HN! When you have a production system running, every now and then there are requirements to made a DB update because of some bug in the code, or for some use cases which were not thought of earlier. How do you handle such updates?

The common way I know is the access is given to a small number of trusted people who make the updates. Are there any other ways or best practices such that the small set of people don't end up becoming bottlenecks, apart from the potential risk of abuse of trust.