Why “design” is being discussed
The most recent Hacker News stories and comments contributing to this topic's mentions.
PCBSchemaGen: Reward-Guided LLM Code Synthesis for PCB Schematic Design
by teleforce · Sep 16, 2026 · 1 points
I'm not sure why anyone is expecting stochastic systems to be deterministic. Chess is a deterministic game won by a combination of known movesets and constrained multi-level for…
by TheOtherHobbes · Sep 16, 2026
Entirely US parts is a very high bar. Isn't it the final product design and assembly that counts in the end? If China has a comparative advantage making resistors, who cares, le…
by mitxela · Sep 16, 2026
Why Six Millennium Problems May Be Hard for the Same Reason
by darius88 · Sep 16, 2026 · 1 points
I can't fathom how they'd consider "Private" something that uploads all the sensitive information in readable form to a third party service. In fact, If I were asked to explain…
by WhyNotHugo · Sep 16, 2026
Words? What are words? We just don’t know. If beauty is function we might as well do away with words and go back to using grunts, or whatever it was that preceded the very idea…
by rightnutwingjob · Sep 16, 2026
Interest
Proportion of Hacker News items mentioning "design" over time.
Mentions
Total number of Hacker News items mentioning "design" over time.
A design is the concept or proposal for an object, process, or system. The word design refers to something that is or has been intentionally created by a thinking agent, and is sometimes used to refer to the inherent nature of something – its design. The verb to design expresses the process of developing a design. In some cases, the direct construction of an object without an explicit prior plan may also be considered to be a design, such as in arts and crafts. A design is expected to have a purpose within a specific context, typically aiming to satisfy certain goals and constraints while taking into account aesthetic, functional and experiential considerations. Traditional examples of designs are architectural and engineering drawings, circuit diagrams, sewing patterns, and less tangible artefacts such as business process models. Read more on Wikipedia