alt Hacker NewsHacker News front page as a site
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Having used it myself, I see the tell-tale signs of Claude using the /frontend-design skill. Good work! I haven't yet had it give me something I actually like, but this is good. Also very clever idea! I approve :-)
Suggestion though: The text is really small and impossible to read at regular zoom. I had to zoom it to 200% to be able to read it. I'd suggest increasing the default text size
This is gorgeous. Makes me feel like I'm picking up an old news sheet. Forces me to read slowly from which I then enjoy the reading much more it's like difference of drinking a fine wine from a glass instead of a straw in the wine bottle.
Kudos to the author.
Building a Hacker News client has long been a rite of passage because the read-only API is freely available, cool to see more experiments like this.
I believe at this point pretty much half of the users might have their own client :)
Love it.
I would love that the size of the article is based on the number of upvotes (hardcoded).
* > 500 => take full width or 3. * 500 > 100 => Show it as right now. * > 100 => Just show the title.
The inception effect here is hilarious. Watching this get its own front page while the subtitle lags behind with the previous top posts is weirdly funny.
I actually recently submitted something similar - https://briefin.com/hackernews/
Less like good-old newspaper, but instead made for scannability & readability, with discussion highlights for each story.
Any feedback greatly appreciated!
I am almost certain this layout is generated by AI, because I vibe coded the exact same newspaper-like style weeks ago.
I love this. Very cool that it made the front page and therefore has an entry for itself. I wonder if the summary could be updated again so that it includes a reference to itself in its summary of itself
Cool, but body font size is too small for comfortable reading!
I love the presentation. My initial impression is that it's easier to read, in no small part due to the font choice, color palette, and tabloid-style layout. I would love to have an RSS reader that presents my RSS feed in the same way.
"Hacker News front page as a site
The Front Page highlights a diverse set of tech and science stories"
It is interesting the summary it generated for itself wasn't able to describe itself as a Hacker News content view. It missed the big picture meta context.
One of the things I miss from Slashdot (I used to read it before HN) were the short summaries. Thanks!
Pretty nice, Can you share some tech details and challenges
I hope the V2 will be like 'It happened tomorrow' (the 1944 movie with Veronica Lake)
Very nice. It'd be cool to have an option to collapse the summary content to skim through everything.
I love it! I discovered it'll switch to a 3 column view if I take the zoom to 200%, I'd maybe prefer it at less but it's a bit tricky to guess if that's true or not. Regardless, it's very nice. And infinite scroll for the hackernews feed is a bonus!
You need some filler for the space at the bottom. Something like ads from the 1800's for quack medical devices or Radium Therapy. Maybe something wildly misogynistic advertising laudanum.
This is really cool a lot less clicking!
Nice. "The Register" meets Hacker News. The fonts an colouring might need a few tweaks.
Still though, it takes me back to the original BetaNews.com and how Winamp.com used to do their news.
Love. Relax the leading, though. The tight lines make it feel claustrophobic.
Anything to make the site nicer on the eyes! I did this a while ago: https://antoinetoussaint.github.io/pretty-hackernews/
This is so cool! I'd love for it to have a front-page-like layout where "trending" news would have a bigger placement in the UI
Anyway, great work :)
Very nostalgic. Looks dope
This reminds me of yahoo.co.jp in a good way
Kind of makes me realize that the thumbnails sometimes make me click, while on HN the titles make me click. Weird how that works.
It renders really well! Sad not to see the Ferrari Luce though.
this looks dope! what's next? a Hacker News radio?
Brilliant! IMO could be even better if the number of points/comments was easier to scan.
Using text-align: justify for questionable aesthetic purpose here really hurts readability, especially on a narrower viewport like the 1026px viewport of Safari with sidebar on an iPad Pro 12.9’’ (although it’s probably more of a problem of the four column layout on that specific narrow viewport; three should be better).
Nice idea, I would not use AI summaries though but the actual first X words from each link real text (and using the README for repos).
Beautifully unusable
Why does someone go to the effort/expense of doing summaries without adding tags? The goal is less slop and not more, and this really just hurts usability after you've already spent money that could actually help? Isn't this the whole value proposition for literally everyone or am I nuts? I don't want a summary. I will switch immediately to the first alternative that allows tags/categories/filtering.
I like the concept, the grid and the design. but the small text description is hurting my eyes.
This is great )) maybe do random templates similar to newspapers (like photo on the left, photo on the right, one block full width, then 3 columns, etc).
Nice! Happy to see the site appearing as itself on the front page doesn't cause some crazy recursive crash :)
Cool, seems need some deduplication. Maybe when you turn to the new page, some items fall back.
i love it. would be cool to get the date lookbacks too - like this https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2026-05-22
Nice design, gives a cozy feeling similar to reading a newspaper
Why is the text one long paragraph? Makes it very hard to read?
Nice try at trying to get me to read the friendly articles ;)
looks lovely, but can you borrow text styling and typography from a modern media website like NYT WaPo or some other major news outlet?
This would make it easier to read
How do I turn to page 2?
Its like reading a newspaper of sorts.
Great job. Looks awesome.
oh this is sick; i wonder where the curly bits at the top and bottom came from; based on the svg artifacts it looks converted from a raster
Love the summaries, I must say some stories I haven't considered interesting seeing them in the original HN view only caught my attention after my eyes landed on the summary.
At the same time, I very much dislike the layout. Masonry-style layouts, at least to me, feel more "artsy" than practical. Multiple rows being displayed at once, with the most crucial information being chaotically all over the place instead of arranged in a way that makes it easy to scan it with your eyes, make me feel like I'm bombarded with information. It's very hard to follow along and very easy to miss articles; almost anxiety-inducing, even. There's hardly any point to this on a website; it's not like you're wasting any paper.