Show HN: Hacker Times, a New York Times-inspired version of Hacker News

I remember there was a similar project like this posted a while ago. Turns out there are multiple. Here are just a few (that are still online):

A couple of months ago (so probably vibe-coded too):

https://thefrontpage.dev/

https://times.hntrends.net/

https://hackernewstimes.com/

This one even from 6 years ago:

https://www.wolfgangfaust.com/project/paper-hn/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23669650, 627 points, 133 comments)

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=hackernews+newspaper

> Masthead set in Manufacturing Consent

I like the description for Manufacturing Consent font:

https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Manufacturing+Consent/abou...

https://github.com/google/fonts/blob/main/ofl/manufacturingc...

Thanks all for your feedback!

I added a few of them to the site:

- Games and AI section - NYTimes style comment section

Can you create a rendered pdf version of this? Similar to https://static01.nyt.com/images/2026/10/04/nytfrontpage/scan...

Then I can show it on my eink art board

Isn't what people pay for with the NYT or other publications, the journalism and editing? Like, the UI isn't why people pay for it.

Given that this seems to just be a re-skin, why a full site that updates hourly, instead of just a browser extension that rewrites the content in-place live?

Attempting to steal HN's thunder ? Knowing the NYT's, the ads and the Nag Screens will come shortly.

Cool! This is great because it demonstrates how terrible NYTimes UI is on mobile, thanks!

I personally don't like the AI-rephrased titles, they feel too editorialized and similar to each other. I realise AI-rephrasing is necessary for the description, but I think the title should (optionally?) be left alone. Could be a toggle.

Since we're sharing vibe coded news sites, here's another: https://headlinegator.com aggregates push notifications from various news apps to one single page.

Just my naive opinion, but HN's UI is so timeless. I love it, and I hope it never changes. I honestly can't imagine HN with a redesign.

I think I'd prefer NYT in Hackernews form

HN being ugly is intentional. It actually does not need these facelifts, because its plain appearance serves as an important filtering function for who participates.

I don’t think the pay wall is working.

I did it for myself and not getting into the rabbit hole of HN, I called digestivo https://digest.ezcurdia.dev its the same concept but its fewer notes summarized

This is great! Very readable and feels like a nice way to browse articles. I tend to gloss over stuff in the HN wall of text sometimes so this breaks the links up in a useful way. Nice job.

Neat. To-do: Give HN the ONION treatment? :-) https://theonion.com/

The x-height of the article caption font is wrong and the body font is too wide.

PS. Hello from the former typophile.com ranks :)

Fun. I have a visceral dislike for the NYT, so the association is actually a negative, haha — but I could get over it.

The tradeoff of the Hacker Times design is increased information for each story but lower density of stories compared to the HN homepage. The high-density design of the HN page is probably optimal for my habits, even though some of the user-submitted headlines are opaque enough that I miss some things I would otherwise click on.

This is dope, although nothing beats the nostalgia of browsing the original HN

This is great. I really like how information is organized in newspaper format. Gives me enought to know whether i want to read it or not. Bookmarked!

This reminds me of an idea I had a while ago; it would be nice if I could receive a paper daily/weekly of interesting articles, updates in the world, think pieces, etc. that weren't as broad as daily news or as opinionated. Just things that people found interesting or things happening around us without the political bias (on either side).

The paper side would just be to anti-digitize my life more, feels like it would be almost like a paper RSS feed.

I just want HN in dark mode....

This is going to be the “Hello, world” of the AI era.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hello,_world

I'm liking all of the remixes.

We built a combined books/video version as well in our app library.

https://medium.com/@vektormemory/vektor-2-0-4-hacker-news-bo...

At least on mobile, the format is much more reminiscent of slashdot.

Man, what a tragic waste of a great .com era community. The whole community self-moderation thing worked ok before the more worthwhile people left. Now they can’t even be arsed to pop by once an hour to remove the multi-page swastika ascii art comments.

wow this is revolutionary. it could change hn forever if folks would start reading at least one paragraph past the submission title before jumping into discussion.

This is so cool! Definitely liked the title font :)

I do wonder if this kind of republishing is compliant with the original site? As in, if one can store the content vs. not and just lazily convert live - have been curious about the copyright rules & practices in this area.

Do people remember Hacker monthly? It was a print magazine of top monthly articles. Great project, unfortunately discontinued in 2016

Amazing project! I can finally breath!

If I cancel can I get the service for $1/week? That's my favorite NYT feature.

This is cool. I built an HN reader recently too - this one is inspired by the old Apollo for Reddit app on iOS:

https://hnollo.com/

Needs a better title font for headlines.

Georgia Bold is not fit for the purpose, and there's no earthly reason to use it at 55px.

There are so many good serif fonts to choose from on Google Fonts. An embarrassment of riches.

Love this version

Somehow this particular formulation makes me scream internally. It's not the classic print edition of the NYT that everybody grew up with, it's the click-maxing online version...

Very well done. I like the categories at the top.

Archive link?

Just for your information, if you care about the reachability of your project: this site, like all ChatGPT sites, is blocked in countries that are banned by ChatGPT (e.g., Hong Kong). And because it uses a custom domain, it cannot be automatically proxied as I have set up for ChatGPT domains, which is slightly annoying.

Certificate issue, Firefox refuses to load it.

so hacker tube, hacker books and now hacker times. what's next? hacker food?

Having the paragraph under the title reminds me of slashdot.org.

i'm open to the idea that its the NYTimes that needs a HN inspired version

Click here for this one weird trick…

But honestly, the headlines there are refreshing

What about the ads, the tracking, the pop-ups and the limited-time special offers?

Hey Wenhao, saw CheapGPT on Show HN cool build! Quick security heads up, found small prompt leak. Can I send 1 page fix?

Unrealistic, I didn't immediately get hit by a paywall

Next is Hacker X :)

It's cool that you made something, but I don't like this.

I would like a printed copy, delivered please. Where do I sign up?