Ask HN: What are the best-designed things you've ever used?
I have no one thing (these are the things that pop into my mind, all within their own category&#x2F;niche);<p>* My <i>Hilleberg Akto</i> single person hiking tent scores very highly. It is designed for lightness, durability and simplicity when setting up. It can better be set up&#x2F;torn down by one person in a storm than most other tents I&#x27;ve owned.<p>* My <i>Leatherman</i> multitool has been with me for years in some fairly bad conditions. It just keeps working and sometimes in ways that I hadn&#x27;t imagine it could be used.<p>* My <i>Aeropress</i> portable coffee maker is in my mind amazingly designed and portable for making a decent cup of coffee anywhere in the world.<p>* <i>SSH</i> is simply amazing. I think it can be overly too easy to forget what it gives us the ability to do.<p>* <i>SQLite</i>. It is amazingly designed in pretty much any way you can look at it (requirements, speed, size, resource use etc).<p>* My <i>Kindle</i> (and other such devices) is an amazing piece of tech. I carry around my whole library in only a few hundred grams, and its power usage levels are so low that I need only charge it for an hour or so each month.<p>* The <i>Kotlin</i> programming language. Such a breath of fresh air after having been stuck with Java (pre 9) on Android for so long.<p>* Android&#x27;s new UI design toolkit <i>Jetpack Compose</i> is a seismic shift in <i>native</i> Android development where everything looks and feels like it has had some serious thought put in behind it.<p>These are obviously subjective, and I have no longing to get into discussions on the merrits of the software I mention here. There are plenty of places that has been done before.