Hacker News: gregoire

New comment by gregoire in "Ferrari Luce"

gregoire — Tue, 26 May 2026 07:18:00 +0000

The companion app, showcased at the middle of the page, looks surprisingly under-designed, despite LoveFrom having some of the best UI designers in the world.

New comment by gregoire in ""Your" vs. "My" in user interfaces"

gregoire — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 07:50:33 +0000

Even their product names follow this pattern, leading to long and childish app names: "Mon espace santé" (My health space), "Mon espace France Travail"

This kind of soft infantilization, especially coming from the government, has always been rubbing me the wrong way.

Video of Humane’s Wearable AI Projector in Action

gregoire — Fri, 21 Apr 2023 13:18:28 +0000

Article URL: https://www.inverse.com/tech/humane-ai-wearable-camera-sensor-projector-video-demo

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35653291

Points: 6

# Comments: 1

On leaving Mapbox after 12 years

gregoire — Mon, 20 Jun 2022 16:37:38 +0000

Article URL: https://trashmoon.com/blog/2022/reflections-on-12-years-at-mapbox/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31812401

Points: 287

# Comments: 260

New comment by gregoire in "Kintsugi – Art of Repair"

gregoire — Tue, 14 Dec 2021 00:19:01 +0000

Thank you!

New comment by gregoire in "Kintsugi – Art of Repair"

gregoire — Tue, 14 Dec 2021 00:16:24 +0000

Impressive collection, thanks!

New comment by gregoire in "Kintsugi – Art of Repair"

gregoire — Mon, 13 Dec 2021 23:42:02 +0000

Most of the kintsugi photos on Wikipedia do not state the date nor the origin of the object they depict, except for one, so I'm looking for something a bit more substantial.

New comment by gregoire in "Kintsugi – Art of Repair"

gregoire — Mon, 13 Dec 2021 22:43:19 +0000

I'm slightly doubtful that this is an authentic thing (by which I mean: "actually practiced in the 15th/16th centuries"). Most of the content around this technique on the web is not in Japanese, and even the Japanese Wikipedia entry about it [0] is quite terse.

Or maybe it's just that non-Japanese people have more interest in it than Japanese do?

If anyone has more knowledge about kintsugi, I would love some historical references which confirm that this technique was actually used in the past.

[0]: https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%87%91%E7%B6%99%E3%81%8E

New comment by gregoire in "1Password for Mac Moving to Electron"

gregoire — Wed, 11 Aug 2021 19:19:32 +0000

Hiding the standalone version purchase link helps them justify the move to a subscription-only service:

> The overwhelming majority of people (97% in fact) choose to subscribe to our new service and many of those who initially purchased a license later changed their mind and traded it in for a membership.

(Source: https://1password.community/discussion/comment/601917/#Comme...)

Which is quite dishonest IMO.

New comment by gregoire in "What I learnt after burning $10M as an entrepreneur"

gregoire — Wed, 31 Mar 2021 11:34:44 +0000

This thread is missing a link to the actual product, so here it is: https://www.getflow.com/

They launched a new version last fall: https://www.getflow.com/blog/flow-x-is-launching-in-septembe...

New comment by gregoire in "Rediscovering the Small Web"

gregoire — Thu, 28 May 2020 07:40:10 +0000

Related: http://tilde.club/

> tilde.club is not a social network it is one tiny totally standard unix computer that people respectfully use together in their shared quest to build awesome web pages

And the story behind it: https://medium.com/message/tilde-club-i-had-a-couple-drinks-...

New comment by gregoire in "The Webpage, an online RSS reader and news aggregator, styled like a newspaper"

gregoire — Tue, 14 Apr 2020 16:17:14 +0000

Reminds me of this old Mac and iPad app: https://acrylicapps.com/pulp/

New comment by gregoire in "Diagrams: A diagram editor for the Mac"

gregoire — Wed, 29 Aug 2018 13:34:03 +0000

Not exactly what you might be looking for, but check out https://monodraw.helftone.com/ and http://asciiflow.com/

New comment by gregoire in "Airbnb's new typeface"

gregoire — Tue, 15 May 2018 20:46:02 +0000

Will this typeface be only used for the UI and marketing, or also for Airbnb's logo[1]?

[1]: https://press.atairbnb.com/media-assets/?categ=Logos

New comment by gregoire in "Turning web design mockups into code with Deep Learning"

gregoire — Wed, 10 Jan 2018 18:15:53 +0000

Check out https://airbnb.design/sketching-interfaces/

New comment by gregoire in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2017)"

gregoire — Fri, 01 Dec 2017 21:20:35 +0000

Téléprocédures simplifiées | Ruby on Rails developer | Paris , France | Onsite | https://tps.apientreprise.fr/

We're building a government-backed Google Forms for the french administration: we help public actor digitalize their forms and thus help public agents as well as citizens and companies save time.

We're a small team (3 developers) looking for another Ruby on Rails developer to help us ship new features, implement our new UI, and improve the quality of our codebase.

Stack: Rails 5, RSpec, GitHub, CircleCI (CI + CD), Sentry, Skylight. Our code is open source: https://github.com/sgmap/tps

Apply: contact@tps.apientreprise.fr

New comment by gregoire in "A Map Showing How Much Time It Takes English-Speakers to Learn Foreign Languages"

gregoire — Fri, 01 Dec 2017 10:49:29 +0000

Indeed, the map is hard to parse. I think that this presentation gives good advice regarding maps design: https://speakerdeck.com/cherdarchuk/data-looks-better-naked-...

Ruby Together – Community funded developer infrastructure

gregoire — Fri, 24 Nov 2017 13:12:34 +0000

Article URL: https://rubytogether.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15770854

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by gregoire in "Show HN: Monica, an open-source CRM to manage friends and family"

gregoire — Tue, 06 Jun 2017 16:58:57 +0000

It's more Trello than a CRM, but there are https://jobtrack.io/ and http://huntr.co/

New comment by gregoire in "YC Annual Letter 2017"

gregoire — Thu, 16 Feb 2017 19:41:30 +0000

Exactly, typography is a subject that is very dear to my heart.

And while I agree that it may be a personal preference, there is a side effect to using double spaces: layout engines consider single spaces the default for their line breaking algorithm, and sometimes, when using double spacing, new sentences start at a new line with a space before the first letter which, in this very case, looks weird and therefore hinders readability.