Mouse Cursor History (and why I made my own)

Why HN readers recommended it

HN treats it as the definitive, short, well-made video on mouse cursors and pulls it out whenever cursor design, pixel perfection or the tilted arrow comes up.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Posy

Topic

mouse cursor history

Format

explainer

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

4

HN mentions in dataset

7

Recommendation years in dataset

2022–2026

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• This is a really good video about how Apple cares about being pixel perfect compared to Windows with something simple and obvious like the mouse cursor icon: [VIDEO] The improvements he made are also quite nice, Microsoft should take note...

• If you want to investigate the history of the macOS cursor, and other cursor schemes, I highly recommend this video: [VIDEO] + [LINK]

• Time for one of my favourite Youtube videos, by Posy (Michiel de Boer.) 'Mouse cursor history (and why I made my own).' [VIDEO] It runs through the history of mouse cursors, as well as problems with some of the standard ones, and shows, among other …