The original was done in Flash. Someone must have transitioned it over to HTML5. The original was also interactive. By clicking and dragging, the viewer was able to control the speed. I remember it was also made into a screensaver.

I installed this and gave it a try yesterday. One downside is that it noticeably reduces the color saturation of the photos. It is very slow and somewhat resource-intensive, but it does compress images quite efficiently. One image compressed from 2,828kb to 586Kb at quality setting 84, which is the lowest quality (highest compression) allowable ).

Or you can just install the following userscript: https://github.com/reek/anti-adblock-killer

You can run the server yourself if you don't want your email passing through a 3rd party server. I don't know how easy that is yet, though. It probably isn't something the normal user would want to deal with.

From the FAQ page:

I don’t trust anyone with my email. Can I run N1 and the API server myself? Yes! See the README for full instructions on setting up the sync engine, API, and N1 on your local machine. You can run everything locally and even develop plugins without using a single Nylas Platform service.

I have been using this for a few months with a little cookie-hack and have really enjoyed the new design. It is surprising how much more open it feels. The transparency in the progress bar and its narrow width also contribute to the openness.

Opera is my default browser at the moment, but Firefox was my goto browser before that. Firefox does have some perks and features that other browsers don't.

I think that Firefox's main advantage is that it is much more extensible and customizable than other browsers. It can be changed on a deeper level. For that reason there are still extensions on Firefox that I cannot find alternatives to on other browsers. Chrome's interface cannot be changed. The Firefox browser UI is editable in css. My current configuration only uses about 35 px of vertical screen space.

I always really enjoyed Firefox's tab groups implementation to group tabs into categories for work/home/a particular project, etc. The drag and drop interface is quick and convenient.

Lately, chrome has felt bloated and sluggish for me. Firefox feels more snappy and responsive for me. Currently, I use Opera and my goto browser which feels more responsive than Chrome and a bit less buggy/quirky than Firefox. Opera is now built on Chromium, so it still runs many Chrome extensions.

Also Firefox technically does integrate with an ecosystem called Firefox OS, but that is only mobile-targeted and quite young.

Overall, this is looking good, but I have a few criticisms:

• The upvote boxes seem to be fighting with the icons to their left, since they are both close in size and proximity. Together they just pull too much visual weight and feel a bit cluttered, making it harder to scan the story titles.

• The article pages could use a wider line length, more padding/margin, and more leading/line-height.

• We could use a little more vertical space between a comment reply and the parent comment.

• The thin font in the header bar is rendering fine on Firefox, but very thin and pixelated in Opera and Chrome.

I got Robot (31).

Another color test that focusses much more on hue differentiation is this one: http://www.xrite.com/online-color-test-challenge

You have to arrange color tiles into perfect gradations.

Design is a multidisciplinary process that is informed by many things. Semiotics, culture/pop culture, language, art, psychology, neuroscience, trends, fashion, technology, music, etc can all contribute to how we design and how an audience processes our work. I want to hear about what makes a great designer great and that isn't going to be the tools that he/she is using. I enjoy seeing content that other designers find interesting, even if it isn't directly related to design. HN's policy is similar:

"On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."

Breadth is important . I realize that nobody wants DN to turn into a pile of blog spam, but I think there is a happy medium. I am quite happy with the current content. It could maybe use a little tweaking in its ranking.

There is an installer up on Github to replace system font with San Fransisco on Yosemite. I think it could work well. The last time I tried it there were a few weird bugs (alignment mainly).

I think this is the one: https://github.com/supermarin/YosemiteSanFranciscoFont

edit: Looks like someone beat me to it.