| ▲ | Hacker News front page as a site(thefrontpage.dev) |
| 121 points by thatxliner 6 hours ago | 46 comments |
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| ▲ | dave7 9 minutes ago | parent | next [-] |
| 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! |
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| ▲ | hk1337 18 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I thought it already had a site? |
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| ▲ | ammar_x 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Cool, but body font size is too small for comfortable reading! |
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| ▲ | gblargg an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | I whipped up a quick uBO rule to fix that (also makes meta-information lines readable): thefrontpage.dev##p.newspaper-copy:style(line-height: normal !important; font-size: 1rem !important;)
thefrontpage.dev##p.article-meta:style(font-size: 1rem !important; font-weight: normal !important; letter-spacing: normal !important;)
EDIT: changed to 1rem as someone else suggested | |
| ▲ | Retr0id 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Sounds like an authentic HN experience to me! | |
| ▲ | Wowfunhappy 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | I agree, but I think it's that small because otherwise, the justified text results in ridiculous spacing. OP, consider reducing the number of columns from 4 to 3 (at least below very wide viewports), increasing the font size, and then also allowing hyphenation. I think the last will help a lot with the justification problem. | | |
| ▲ | iamalizard 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | Or have a button that makes the text left-aligned for easier reading. | | |
| ▲ | Wowfunhappy 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | I think that very much defeats the point of making it look like a newspaper. | | |
| ▲ | entropie 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | Which might be fine? Since web pages are not newspaper sites one might say its just not the ideal way of presenting information. | | |
| ▲ | Wowfunhappy 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | This entire submission is styled to look like a newspaper. If you just want information that's available at news.ycombinator.com. |
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| ▲ | throwawayAAUGGH 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | OP, I love the font size as is, have multiple options if you're going to change things! Remember the users that loved things as they were! | | |
| ▲ | stagas 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | I did increase it in the meanwhile from when that comment was posted. |
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| ▲ | daviding 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | An overridden `.newspaper-copy { font-size: 1rem; }` works well. |
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| ▲ | hspeiser an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| 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. |
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| ▲ | oefrha 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| 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). |
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| ▲ | sheept 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | It could probably be helped a bit by enabling auto hyphenation, but ultimately browsers aren't optimized for typesetting narrow columns of text | | | |
| ▲ | stagas 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Made it 3, try again perhaps. Changing to text-align: left really destroys the aesthetic though. |
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| ▲ | jesse_dot_id an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Beautifully unusable |
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| ▲ | chrisgen19 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I like the concept, the grid and the design. but the small text description is hurting my eyes. |
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| ▲ | fumeux_fume 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Nice! Happy to see the site appearing as itself on the front page doesn't cause some crazy recursive crash :) |
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| ▲ | revv00 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Cool, seems need some deduplication. Maybe when you turn to the new page, some items fall back. |
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| ▲ | almyk 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Nice design, gives a cozy feeling similar to reading a newspaper |
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| ▲ | BeetleB 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Why is the text one long paragraph? Makes it very hard to read? |
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| ▲ | stagas 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | Because I'm telling the AI "summarize it to one paragraph". | | |
| ▲ | sillysaurusx 13 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | Could you explain in more detail how this works? Would it break for paywalled articles that HN links to? (Usually someone posts a workaround archive link in the comments, but your AI probably doesn’t account for that, right?) I’m writing something similar to Moltbook for HN where AIs browse HN’s front page and leave comments. But I wasn’t sure whether AIs could reliably browse an arbitrary website. (Paywalls would break it, as just one example.) But it seems like your AI works fine for all the sites. If you have time to explain, what exactly do you do to generate your summaries? Thanks! EDIT: I see that sometimes your summaries fail, e.g. “Ferrari Luce - Summary not available.” It looks like it fails because it’s a JS heavy site. But I was thinking a headless browser could take screenshots of the page and then feed the screenshots to AI. I’m not sure how practical that is to implement though. | |
| ▲ | BeetleB 40 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | | OK. Tell it not to! The formatting, etc looks all nice, but it's not worth reading. |
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| ▲ | insin 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Nice try at trying to get me to read the friendly articles ;) |
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| ▲ | bijowo1676 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| 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 |
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| ▲ | wanoir 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Would be cool to see different column layouts too! |
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| ▲ | irq-1 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | Yea -- it could use votes to pick a hero article, or change summary length. |
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| ▲ | anonu 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| i love it. would be cool to get the date lookbacks too - like this https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2026-05-22 |
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| ▲ | clacker-o-matic 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| 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 |
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| ▲ | smartial_arts 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Previews are v slow to load for some reason |
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| ▲ | stagas 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | Some of them are really large and I'm not resizing them or storing them, just proxying their og image directly. So they might be taking long to respond from the original source. Also getting hammerred by being in the front page. |
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| ▲ | galsapir 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| hey that's pretty cool. I think I still prefer "distill HN" cleanliness though. What made you create this. |
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| ▲ | namrog84 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Is it just me or is there something slightly weird about scrolling? Maybe font or color. Im on mobile. |
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| ▲ | sublinear 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| This page now contains itself. |
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| ▲ | SilentM68 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Nice design, but I can't afford the $3.50 price of the cup of coffee, atm (◡︵◡)(◠‿◠) |
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| ▲ | delichon 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Now do clay tablets. |
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| ▲ | himata4113 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| this is now my new default for hackernews. |
