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Visual Studio 2026 still ships the form designer Alan Cooper drew in 1987

https://evilgeniuslabs.ca/blog/winforms-still-ships-in-visual-studio-2026
29•jordand•3h ago

Comments

no-name-here•1h ago
- No screenshot of said form designer?

- Page is not responsive, requires zooming out on mobile, or scrolling horizontally, to view full text width

teruakohatu•1h ago
There is oddly a configuration panel on the web page that lets you turn off many effects and make it readable.
esperent•1h ago
> make it readable

It does not

oblio•1h ago
> Page is not responsive

Just like WinForms :-p

girvo•16m ago
Not to mention it being very obviously written by AI.
esperent•1h ago
I'm all for funky site designs but I need to be able to actually read it. Can't zoom text on mobile - when I zoom, the whole page zooms so by the time I can read the text comfortably I can only see half a line.
n8cpdx•1h ago
Very clearly AI written, but more seriously, I think the take is off base.

Winforms is still popular enough, but I think it did get seriously displaced by WPF. And WPF is modern enough to handle things like dark mode and High DPI relatively well. Visual Studio and other professional software in its class tends to use it (if using windows-native tech at all).

Maybe smaller business apps are still using winforms, but the XAML designer is also good so even if you want to just drag and drop controls WPF is the better choice IMO.

> Worse at the thing it most needed to be good at, which was surviving Microsoft's own framework churn. WPF's stack has no equivalent of Win32's thirty-year compatibility guarantee, because no such guarantee was ever offered. WinForms inherited Win32's compatibility guarantee for free.

I don’t get this. Ancient WPF software is just as compatible as it ever was and it’s getting on to 20 years old.

PacificSpecific•51m ago
Yeah I still write WPF Software today and it's as stable as it's ever been. Kind of nice to have a UI framework frozen in time tbh.

Maui on the other hand.. I don't get why it exists. It's like the worst of both worlds between desktop and mobile. My understanding is it's rebranded Xamarin which would explain some stuff...

Ti-84 Evo

https://education.ti.com/en/products/calculators/graphing-calculators/ti-84-evo
337•thatxliner•7h ago•315 comments

Good developers learn to program. Most courses teach a language

https://evilgeniuslabs.ca/blog/good-developers-learn-to-program-not-a-language
52•andsoitis•3h ago•31 comments

Artemis II Photo Timeline

https://artemistimeline.com/#artemis-ii-walkout-nhq202604010003
88•geerlingguy•2d ago•7 comments

New research suggests people can communicate and practice skills while dreaming

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-inquiry/its-possible-to-learn-in-our-sleep-should-we
264•XzetaU8•9h ago•142 comments

The smelly baby problem

https://www.worksinprogress.news/p/how-disposable-diapers-conquered
124•dionysou•2d ago•67 comments

To Restore an Island Paradise, Add Fungi

https://e360.yale.edu/digest/atoll-islands-sea-level-rise-fungi
11•Brajeshwar•2d ago•0 comments

I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA

129•proberts•12h ago•190 comments

A Report on Burnout in Open Source Software Communities (2025) [pdf]

https://mirandaheath.website/static/oss_burnout_report_mh_25.pdf
37•susam•3h ago•8 comments

Lib0xc: A set of C standard library-adjacent APIs for safer systems programming

https://github.com/microsoft/lib0xc
87•wooster•8h ago•28 comments

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2026)

234•whoishiring•12h ago•258 comments

Eka’s robotic claw feels like we're approaching a ChatGPT moment

https://www.wired.com/story/when-robots-have-their-chatgpt-moment-remember-these-pincers/
101•zdw•2d ago•130 comments

Direct electrochemical black coffee quality appraisal using cyclic voltammetry

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-71526-5
19•bookofjoe•2d ago•3 comments

Whohas – Command-line utility for cross-distro, cross-repository package search

https://github.com/whohas/whohas
131•peter_d_sherman•12h ago•31 comments

Show HN: WhatCable, a tiny menu bar app for inspecting USB-C cables

https://github.com/darrylmorley/whatcable
436•sleepingNomad•18h ago•132 comments

Whimsical Animations Course Open House

https://courses.joshwcomeau.com/wham/open-house/00-introduction
77•SpyCoder77•7h ago•9 comments

Sourcefeed – a pop-up RSS service

https://www.sourcefeed.app/
3•bjhess•3d ago•0 comments

SpaceX rocket set for unintentional moon landing – well, a piece of it anyway

https://www.theregister.com/2026/05/01/spacex_debris_landing/
55•beardyw•15h ago•39 comments

City Learns Flock Accessed Cameras in Children's Gymnastics Room as a Sales Demo

https://www.404media.co/city-learns-flock-accessed-cameras-in-childrens-gymnastics-room-as-a-sale...
327•joshcsimmons•8h ago•94 comments

Show HN: AI CAD Harness

https://fusion.adam.new/install
70•zachdive•9h ago•69 comments

Apocalypse Early Warning System

https://ews.kylemcdonald.net/
128•carlsborg•10h ago•73 comments

The gay jailbreak technique

https://github.com/Exocija/ZetaLib/blob/main/The%20Gay%20Jailbreak/The%20Gay%20Jailbreak.md
410•bobsmooth•10h ago•158 comments

Tvheadend: Self-Hosted IPTV Server

https://tvheadend.org
12•hyperific•2d ago•5 comments

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2026)

121•whoishiring•12h ago•252 comments

Understand Anything

https://github.com/Lum1104/Understand-Anything
110•taubek•9h ago•31 comments

Credit cards are vulnerable to brute force kind attacks

https://metin.nextc.org/posts/Credit_Cards_Are_Vulnerable_To_Brute_Force_Kind_Attacks.html
194•kodbraker•6h ago•161 comments

AI uses less water than the public thinks

https://californiawaterblog.com/2026/04/26/ai-water-use-distractions-and-lessons-for-california/
352•hirpslop•9h ago•311 comments

Spotify adds 'Verified' badges to distinguish human artists from AI

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yerr4m1yno
217•reconnecting•10h ago•241 comments

Running Adobe's 1991 PostScript Interpreter in the Browser

https://www.pagetable.com/?p=1854
127•ingve•15h ago•29 comments

Artemis II fault tolerance

https://alearningaday.blog/2026/05/01/artemis-ii-fault-tolerance/
66•speckx•9h ago•33 comments

Sally McKee, who coined the term "the memory wall", has died

https://www.online-tribute.com/SallyMcKee
108•deater•12h ago•26 comments