Show HN: Hacker News frontpage as a print newspaper that you can personalize

https://yourhackernews.com/

by nimbusega • 2 years ago

564 139 2 years ago

yourhackernews.com

istillwritecode• 2 years ago

For those who prefer scrolling to reading I guess.

cryptozeus• 2 years ago

Good attempt but from the title I thought it would look like an actual print news paper

mahin21• 2 years ago

It's a bit harder to make it look like an actual newspaper without manually editing the content.

nightpool2• 2 years ago

Very cool! Looks like it has an XSS vector though :P

https://i.imgur.com/5bbKiFc.png

nightpool2• 2 years ago

The print stylesheets are also kind of broken. With my printer's default margins, the page becomes an overlapping mess: https://i.imgur.com/lTlFz4l.png

And even with margins turned off, stories are split "across" pages in a way that makes them useless for printing: https://i.imgur.com/SvmTGa8.png Need to pay more attention to your "break-inside" properties: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/break-insid... (and switch from using JS-generated absolute styles to using a CSS column layout or masonry grid)

nimbusega8• 2 years ago

Thank you! I missed that in my sleepiness. Should be fixed now.

fdphoughton• 2 years ago

This is pretty cool, it’s nice to have a clean interface that puts more focus on individual posts (as articles here) rather than tons of headlines where I feel I skim over posts a lot more (particularly the post about Jupiter only caught my attention on your site, not the front page).

I’d like if there was some support for customising it without liking and disliking so I could push topics I’m interested in first (e.g. those tagged with emacs). It would also be nice to hide the like and dislike buttons in general as it gives more of a social media feel that the newspaper style UI does well to shake.

stevage• 2 years ago

Interesting, for me it's a bit the opposite. In the standard view I really read every headline and consider what might be through the click. In this version I skim more in mindless scrolling fashion.

mahin21• 2 years ago

Maybe you could add keywords on a separate 'customize' page?

berbec• 2 years ago

This is nice, but I prefer the simpler style of hckrnews.com

vunderba2• 2 years ago

There was an iOS app from practically a decade ago that did something very similar, but you could customize with RSS feeds, and it would turn it into a traditional looking newspaper.

Sadly, I can't remember the name of it but it was pretty great.

headclone• 2 years ago

I remember this app as well; “Flipreader” comes to mind but yields no Google results.

It was the peak of RSS for me, beautiful UX, customizable, all the posts in sequential order if I wanted instead of algorithms…

I remember it because useless when web publishers realized they were losing ad views to apps like these and all the posts became previews with links.

soylentcola• 2 years ago

I believe you are thinking of Flipboard (still around, but a bit different nowadays).

franzkappa• 2 years ago

I think you are referring to Flipboard, it is still in the AppStore

brianfitz• 2 years ago

Flipboard. https://about.flipboard.com/

otras• 2 years ago

A fun evolution would be to format it into a newspaper format, complete with headlines, front page, and "continue reading on page N", then print it out on large paper, fold it, and mail it to you.

There's probably no money in it, but a physical weekly customized RSS feed highlights newspaper would be neat.

vunderba2• 2 years ago

Can't edit my post but it wasn't Flipboard.

Found it - it was Instapaper!

https://imgur.com/a/iFBme4f

EDIT: Well maybe not, this one seems more like a replacement for ReadLater/GetPocket whereas the one I used was purely based off RSS feeds. I used it on the original iPad 1st gen so it's probably long gone. I give up.

frabjoused• 2 years ago

Very cool, seems like it updates on a delay though, which will probably kill usability.

This post is not even on it.

4gotunameagain• 2 years ago

On brand with newspapers.

nimbusega8• 2 years ago

It updates every hour. This post is on it now!

jgrahamc• 2 years ago

This doesn't look like a print newspaper. Print newspapers are much denser (in general) and have different headline sizes to emphasize the editor's choice of stories. This looks like a corporate blog home page or something. Some people will like this presentation; I'm pretty happy with HN as it is. But congratulations on shipping!

SoftTalker• 2 years ago

For the rest of the news in a more HN-like format (at least at the top level) you might like https://lite.cnn.com/

Bluecobra• 2 years ago

Also this site works great in text browsers like Lynx.

minkzilla• 2 years ago

https://text.npr.org is also a text only version of npr

MichaelZuo• 2 years ago

Yeah… it’s really just not plausible at all…

nimbusega8• 2 years ago

Thanks for the feedback! Print newspaper's have curation, which this lacks. I guess the main thing it takes from newspapers is the image and blurb that help give you a preview of the story.

dangoor• 2 years ago

There is a form of curation on HN and "editorial judgment" on HN and that's in the points a post has. A closer approximation of a newspaper would be possible by looking at the points of a post and maybe comparing that to other posts and then sizing headlines appropriately based on how "important" the HN community sees a given story.

djmips• 2 years ago

Currently the 131M Buildings story shows the blog author picture and BIO instead of a summary of the actual story. Is this easily fixable or is it a tough problem.

tessierashpool3• 2 years ago

I agree, but I'm biased. I built basically the same app as OP back in 2009 and it had different headline sizes like a newspaper:

https://github.com/gilesbowkett/hacker_newspaper/blob/master...

I kept it running for 5 or 10 years but eventually let it die.

edit: I'm not hating on OP btw. their version has pics, which mine doesn't. just agreeing that I believe the visual hierarchy inherent to newspaper title design is an important benefit of the format.

lysace• 2 years ago

the visual hierarchy inherent to newspaper title design is an important benefit of the format

Agreed. This is also why old-school print design product catalogs often had superior presentation compared to today's web UIs for browsing hierarchically organized products. Everything is given the same visual weight and is formatted the same way.

Anyway, improving on what you did with the tooling that's easily available in 2024 but wasn't in 2009 seems like a fun challenge.

efilife• 2 years ago

Yours is much better, exactly how I envisioned it to be

yaj54• 2 years ago

are there any good online designs that actually look like a print newspaper, with the features you describe?

I've wanted to take a stab at it because I think it would be "neat" but haven't actually found any good reference implementations.

also seems like with almost everyone on mobile it's just not worth it.

llm_trw• 2 years ago

Papers only work because they know exactly what the view portal is and can design the layout relative to that. Unless you have an a3 sized screen this will not work very well online.

2big2fail_47• 2 years ago

i think the nytimes landing page does a good job at looking and feeling like an analogue newspaper

aurbano• 2 years ago

That's a great observation actually! They should've made the design do that automatically based on story ranking

bryanrasmussen• 2 years ago

Looking at the code everything is absolutely positioned, I would have expected to get a newspaper like flow to use Multi-column Layout

hk-hater420• 2 years ago

Good point. Of course Helen Keller wouldn’t have been able to use this if she were alive today… Or could she have? Have you ever considered that Helen Keller was faking it all along? I mean think about it how can you read and write if you are deaf and blind??

meeb• 2 years ago

I’ve been running https://dailypopulous.com/ for years which is basically this but for general news. It generates a static paper edition every 6 hours from the most popular news links on social media with archives of all previous editions available.

sebastiansm2• 2 years ago

I like that only shows 10 articles.

mahin21• 2 years ago

Nice! I recently worked on a chrome extension that personalizes the frontpage based on embeddings.

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/hn-explorer/amiaaon...

pflenker• 2 years ago

This is very nice! If you - make it a pwa/web clip - link to the discussions - make the images colored again I’d use it over the regular hacker news ui any day. I know your use case is printing it out, but it’s fantastic for usage on a tablet.

mahin21• 2 years ago

I've added an option to change images to color or remove them. You can view the comments by clicking 'SEE COMMENTS' at the end of the blurb. I'll look into making it into a PWA.

creative72• 2 years ago

The images in the website are in grayscale.

nimbusega8• 2 years ago

I thought it would fit the grayscale of newspapers. I can add an option to show them in color.

billpg• 2 years ago

Anyone remember "Hacker Monthly"? Years ago it was a monthly PDF with nicely laid out copies of popular articles that had been highly voted on here.

kqr• 2 years ago

They also printed physical magazines and shipped them out. It was the first time I received a professionally printed copy of something I had authored.

syndicatedjelly• 2 years ago

Love this project! I would love to collab, please consider open-sourcing this project, or let me know if I can contribute in some way

twochillin• 2 years ago

Yeah would love to play with a couple PRs on this

mahin21• 2 years ago

I'll try to untangle the codebase!

hakube• 2 years ago

Looks like the NYT

ilaksh• 2 years ago

Amazing..and you're telling me you made this with less than 600 programmers?

nimbusega8• 2 years ago

I made this to experiment with embeddings and explore how different ways of displaying information affect your perception.

It gets the top 100 stories, sends their html to GPT-4 to extract the main content (this was not producing good enough results with html parsing) and then gets an embedding using the title and content.

Likes/dislikes are stored in local storage and compared against all stories using cosine similarity to find the most relevant stories.

It costs about $10/day to run. I was thinking of offering additional value for a small subscription. Maybe more pages of the newspaper, full story content/comments, a weekly digest or ePub export or something?

ketzo• 2 years ago

I think some of the highest value from HN comes from the comments, and it's much harder to find the "best" ones, since they might be in threads you might not have otherwise read.

Not sure if it's a "premium feature" so to speak, but would be very cool to extend this to comments generally.

nimbusega8• 2 years ago

Definitely, comments are usually better than the article. I thought of a 'Letters to the Editors' section that shows top comments (https://news.ycombinator.com/bestcomments) and references the parent story, but it might not be as useful without the context.

Maybe 'See Comments' here could load the comments on the same page? In a newspaper like style.

jkestner• 2 years ago

Render comments in the style of the Onion's man-on-the-street American Voices section.

jzombie4• 2 years ago

Likes/dislikes are stored in local storage and compared against all stories using cosine similarity to find the most relevant stories.

You're referring to using the embeddings for cosine similarity?

I am doing something similar with stocks. Taking several decades worth of 10-Q statements for a majority of stocks and weighted ETF holdings and using an autoencoder to generate embeddings that I run cosine and euclidean algorithms on via Rust WASM.

tiborsaas• 2 years ago

I am doing something similar with stocks.

How well does it work?

mahin21• 2 years ago

Yes. Your project sounds cool, post it!

gsky• 2 years ago

Why would it cost $10 a day?

It should not cost more than a dollar a day.

Take AWS and azure credits and run it for free for years

tagawa• 2 years ago

Nice – I like this a lot. I feel like I'd use this for slow-lane reading and the original HN site when I'm in a rush.

Regarding HTML to GPT-4, I seem to remember commenters here saying they got better results by converting the HTML to Markdown first, then sending to an LLM. Might save a bit of money too.

mahin21• 2 years ago

That's a good idea. I've been experimenting and markdown seems to produce better results.

banga• 2 years ago

Sadly the media="print" view does not provide usable output.

All4All2• 2 years ago

All I get is "Failed to load stories," am I doing something wrong? Is there something I need to configure before things will load?

SamCoding3• 2 years ago

I just had the same problem and solved it. You have to switch off your adblocker.

All4All2• 2 years ago

Interesting, yup, looks like it was blocked by the network PiHole.

dredmorbius4• 2 years ago

I'd seen that when first loading the site shortly after the story was posted. Some 12 hours later or so, content is loading as expected. No network adjustments made on my end; I suspect the site operator changed their configuration(s).

karaterobot• 2 years ago

I guess you mean a digital newspaper with a layout inspired by print newspapers. It's definitely not a print newspaper, I know because I tried folding it in half to read on the train, and all that happened was my laptop screen broke.

SamCoding3• 2 years ago

I'm getting the an error of "Failed to fetch stories"

The console error is: (index):464 Error loading stories: TypeError: Failed to construct 'URL': Invalid URL at (index):482:36 at Array.forEach (<anonymous>) at NewspaperApp.displayStories ((index):471:25) at NewspaperApp.loadStories ((index):461:26) at async NewspaperApp.initialize ((index):418:17)

Can anyone help? I really want to use this product it seems great.

SamCoding3• 2 years ago

Just fixed my own problem! You have to switch off your adblocker.

mahin21• 2 years ago

I wonder what part of it was detected as an ad. Which adblocker?

ideasphere• 2 years ago

It’s funny how frequently people try to reinvent the wheel re: how this site is laid out. It’s the best part about it!

pncnmnp• 2 years ago

Looks super neat! I've had a longtime dream of working on a similar project, but I want to make it "Daily Prophet" styled, inspired by the Harry Potter series - https://harrypotter.fandom.com/wiki/Daily_Prophet?file=Daily.... With gifs and effects :)

A few years ago, a similar project was posted on HN that I thought was really cool too - E Ink smart screen puts a newspaper on your wall (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22831323).

mahin21• 2 years ago

That would be really cool!

paddy_m• 2 years ago

I would pay money, $1+ postage to maybe $5 + postage to physically print out tweet streams and other articles and mail them to some old people I know.

I'm thinking specifically of DieWorkwear on twitter, but others too.

genewitch6• 2 years ago

i just had a silly idea. around 100 years ago there used to be these devices you'd put a scroll in and it would scroll it[0]. the use i saw for it was maps, in cars. you'd insert like interstate 10 scroll #N for whatever section you were on, and as you passed mile markers or exits you'd scroll it. i hope this explains it.

So the idea is to replicate that and use receipt paper, and thermal or what, dot matrix print onto the roll of paper your tweet stream. then you get something like those plastic M&M bottles, pill bottle, 35mm film bottle (boy i am full of ancient tech ideas)...

if you make some 3d printed cheap compliant mechanism[1] that snaps together and everything fits in a small tin or box...

[0] https://gajitz.com/paper-trails-auto-scrolling-1930s-in-car-... et https://i.imgur.com/WpyOGkI.jpeg (two separate links)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compliant_mechanism

eigenhombre• 2 years ago

I liked this for two seconds; then all the pictures loaded in the browser window, and its usefulness to me plummeted. Similar to other commenters, I actually prefer text-only in this context; in particular, the first picture displayed just now was animated, and incredibly distracting.

I would probably use this or at least play with it extensively if not for this "feature." I find that, unlike "real" newspapers, leading images in blog posts and even much larger sites are frequently a net negative (a trend greatly worsened with the advent of AI image generators).

nimbusega8• 2 years ago

That's fair. How about a toggle to not show images?

genewitch6• 2 years ago

I think this is more an indictment of how poorly some publications pick images than any sort of layout issue (or design decision). So probably a toggle throws the baby out with the bathwater. Saw a little cockroach and there was an article about a cockroach - okay, fair. Picture of what looks like a forest fire on an article about tuples - probably net negative.

KerryJones• 2 years ago

Is there a reason you chose not to display the comment count?

mahin21• 2 years ago

I thought upvotes and time ago as more important, and wanted to minimize the meta information.

belmead• 2 years ago

This is excellent! I've been using it all day. I do wish it was a bit denser (similar to Drudge Report), but the product is neat enough as is. Congrats!

mahin21• 2 years ago

Thanks! I'll experiment with a denser layout. I do think there's too much whitespace, but people usually prefer that.

ionwake• 2 years ago

This is super cool

3abiton2• 2 years ago

Looks really great, did you document the process or background of the project somewhere? I would love to read the journey!

mahin21• 2 years ago

I could write a blog post about it if you'd like.

3abiton2• 2 years ago

It would be definitely apprecited by many of HN users!

bobhak• 2 years ago

Pretty cool. Like how the animated GIFs will play and the type and whitespace balance is pretty solid. Ever seen Paper-HN? A similar idea: https://www.wolfgangfaust.com/project/paper-hn/ - A fun detail that one has is when you mouseover their photos they go to colour.

mahin21• 2 years ago

Yes! Came across it while developing this. I loved it. There's also this one for reddit: https://unim.press/

vraylle• 2 years ago

A nice layout. For fun I attempted to actually print (to PDF) and boy was that messed up badly! Guessing that's not the type of "print" you had in mind. :)

genewitch6• 2 years ago

go into the print settings for pdf and set the margins to "none" - that fixed it here. but my workflow was singlefile extension to save as a single html file, then i opened that in another browser and used that to print to pdf - just to make sure i wasn't doing a "but it worked at my house" sort of claim!

lofaszvanitt• 2 years ago

It looks like a funeral service webpage with those colors.

lmpdev• 2 years ago

As the son of two journalists (one was an editor) news-editing and layout is a lot more than just using serif and playing with typography a bit

The closest thing I’ve found to something actually resembling a proper masthead’s layout would actually be this from HN a few months ago: https://cybernetic.dev/grid

Balancing high information density and readability is the key to a proper layout. You’ve erred to far on minimalist “readability”

I’d suggest looking at older Indesign/Quark Express magazines if you want to see elements of publishing layouts done digitally

There’s going to be a great layout one day that fuses the news-editing with web, but this isn’t it

bobberkarl• 2 years ago

Thank you for this!

space_oddity• 2 years ago

This is such a cool idea! It’s like combining the tech-focused content of Hacker News with the classic feel

vincnetas• 2 years ago

If it's a "print" do not add changing images. Now we have on first slot "Passport Photos" story with plinking photos, which makes me wanna click X ASAP...

pmx• 2 years ago

This is likely down to a simple oversight when loading images from articles. OP probably didn't consider GIF images. I don't think its a choice that was made to add animated images. @OP - you can use Cloudinary to transform images on the fly (also stops you using other sites resources) to fix this issue easily.

mahin21• 2 years ago

Yes, I did not think of that. Thank you, I was thinking of how to fix it.

lintfordpickle• 2 years ago

A really cool project and I like the layout a lot. There a a few things that would be nice to be able to customize, like heading sizes and font, but on the whole this is great work.

dredmorbius4• 2 years ago

This is pretty cool, thanks for sharing!

It's reminiscent in some ways of Slashdot of yore, which would include a slug describing the submission. One of my more persistent issues with HN is that the 80-character-limit title gives parlous thin information on whether or not a submission is worth reading. Additional microcontent, even just another 120-240 characters (10--20 words or so) often helps greatly, and your project demonstrates this.

Auto-selecting slugs is of course itself somewhat fraught, one example on the front page of YourHackerNews as I write has a slug beginning "This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks. The action you just performed triggered the security solution...", which is probably not what you'd prefer: <https://www.tokyodev.com/articles/the-english-paradox-four-d...>.

I'm not a fan of animations as noted in another comment. The "Passport Photos" story has a hero image which animates: <https://maxsiedentopf.com/passport-photos/>. One option would be to permit removing an item entirely from the layout. Hitting "X" on a story does not presently do this. HN itself has "hide" feature accomplishing this.

In general, I would strongly caution against auto-including images from sites, particularly as those can be pathways to future abuse, including the appropriation of the image-hosting site by unsavoury content. I'd run across an example from an earlier HN submission a few months ago, of the ever-more-aptly named "ShadyURL": <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41002786>.

On layout: Traditional print newspapers aren't merely an assortment of articles, or a ranked placement of articles, but an edited presentation of them. There's usually a top story, of course, but gathered around those will be stories related to the primary feature. See a recent archive of the (online) NY Times homepage for an example: <https://archive.is/HO7xW>.

Layouts are also grouped by topical sections. Again the Times demonstrates this (top news, analysis, opinion, "the great read", "the athletic", "culture and lifestyle", etc. The Guardian similarly, with several news blocks for top news, "headlines", "in focus", "spotlight", "opinion", "sports", "climate crisis", etc.

HN's news breakdown differs, though looking at the submitted sites, title, and in your case the slug should give some options for largely-automated story placement. I've done my own analysis of HN front-pages, and came up with a list of 47 categories of sites with > 17 front-page appearances (and a great many more without), totaling 16,185 classified sites.

Categories: programming (7719), blog (5506), media (816), science (635), news (344), comm. (227), government (129), software (127), video (78), discussion (73), interest (72), design (60), database (57), cryptocurrency (49), law (41), cybersecurity (25), technology (25), commentary (24), recreation (23), hardware (22), medicine (15), documents (14), military (10), literature (9), economics (8), publications (8), list (7), crowdfunding (6), education (6), webcomic (6), (wiki) (5), books (5), info (5), entertainment (4), environment (4), journalism (4), organisations (3), support (3), information (2), translation (2), humour (1), images (1), n/a (1), networking (1), podcast (1), society (1), ui/ux (1).

(I can provide the classification file on request, username at protomail.com.)

That provides pretty comprehensive coverage of the actual stories submitted (I'd had the exact factor once, I believe it's in excess of 90%).

Again: parsing of the titles and/or slugs (perhaps with an AI assist?) could give better classification. Sites such as Lobsters (<https://lobste.rs>) include tags and often have similar submission selections to HN, which might also be used to organise placement.

Another characteristic of traditional layouts is that the horizontal line is reset periodically. If you look at the NYTimes, Guardian, or other traditional news sites you'll find frequent use of horizontal breaks. I don't know if this is a peculiarity of mine or not, but I find that card-style summaries which are not randomly aligned vertically on a page are much easier to read.

mahin21• 2 years ago

Thanks a lot for the detailed feedback!

Slugs are chosen using AI, but it doesn't work too well, as you mentioned. I will work on iterating the prompt to try and get better results.

A 'remove' option would be a good addition. It would directly remove the element, and not track it as a 'disliked' story.

Since this whole thing is automated, and there's no curation involved beyond embeddings and HN points, it's hard to display it like a traditional newspaper, with proper vertical alignment (since images and blurbs are manually entered to fill the content there).

I think grouping the newspaper into categories is a great idea. I don't think it works with the daily frontpage, since there isn't enough content (just 30 stories on the front page), but it would work quite well in a monthly version. Your categories are very helpful and I will email you about them.

dredmorbius4• 2 years ago

I'll drop you my classification file shortly. It's mostly-manual classification with some pattern-based assignments. Every site that's appeared on the front page a minimum of 15 times, IIRC, and quite a few below that threshold. Coverage is about 65% of front-page articles 2007--2023.

Slug-selection is a tough challenge. AI may not solve it, but at least it will make it more non-deterministic ;-) Reviewing the site again, you're largely doing quite well.

(I'd really like to see a widely-used abstract or summary semantic markup usage, though microformats seem not to have been widely adopted: <https://microformats.org/>.)

The layout / horizontal breaks observation is mostly something that's nagged me for ages in card-based layouts going back to Google+ in the early 2010s. It took me a while to realise that what nagged me about the layout was having multiple columns of cards with no vertical coherence. It just sort of jumbles in my mind, and I'm not sure if that's a cognitive defect of mine or a more general response. I've come to appreciate print-based layout practices increasingly with time, particularly as I find online / fluid layouts increasingly less satisfactory.

(I've made some past observations about layout and on-screen reading on traditional displays vs. a large-format e-ink display. I increasingly strongly prefer the latter for reading, though even there many issues remain. Search: <https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...> and focusing on scroll-vs-paginated displays: <https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...>, if you feel like hunting through a bunch of my whinges ;-)

machiaweliczny2• 2 years ago

Nice. What algorithm is used for recommendation?

mahin21• 2 years ago

It gets embeddings from open AI and compares them using cosine similarity. Stories are weighted by similarity, dissimilarity and HN score.

machiaweliczny2• 2 years ago

How you compare a liked set to single embedding? By best match? Or is there some fancier way?

Rikard_wikstrom• 2 years ago

Would be great to have the option to subscribe to a daily brief and read personalised recommended content in this format. Congrats on shipping

mahin21• 2 years ago

I'm thinking of adding that. How would it be different from visiting the page and reading your personalized frontpage?

DeathArrow• 2 years ago

But that just redirects. It would be nicer to also fetch the text and media when you click on a title.

Fluorescence• 2 years ago

Nice!

My feedback is that a "front page photo" is a very high bar and most of the images fall well below what deserves the space. I would avoid:

  - boilerplate page previews for e.g. github
  
  - generic site logos e.g. arxiv, aide

  - stock images and ai equivalents e.g. the models in suits stuff

  - "decorative" images e.g. prime number

  - author photos

  - hate autoplaying gifs in this context. Very distracting. They might be great content better "play on demand" for me

Images work better when it's a relevant and a unique visual e.g. the gladiators for the history article or the cockroach but they are still are not really front-page material.

To truly earn their place, an image has to add information above and beyond the text. Identifying when an article is actually about an image e.g. space photo, data visualisation etc. would add some real value to the presentation.

sebastiansm2• 2 years ago

Agree. I think I'll stay in the OG site.

jawilson2• 2 years ago

"Obscure person has died (with no explanation of why I should care)"

frandroid• 2 years ago

Blame HN users for upvoting the story, not this chrome page...

floor_• 2 years ago

I would like to filter all of the HN pet language noise posts. Rust, Go, etc..

debarshri• 2 years ago

nice! I had building something similar a while back based on semafor [1]

[1] https://hackernews-semafor-duhw.vercel.app/

azinman2• 2 years ago

There’s a lot of negative commentary here, but this is the first HN alternative I’ve bookmarked. Yes lots could be improved, but I think the concept is nice! Thanks for making this!

rwb_1912• 2 years ago

This is really cool! I'd love to help out if I can! Shoot me an email — daniel@shaped.ai

catalypso• 2 years ago

This looks cool!

I now almost exclusively get my HN feed through a simple script I wrote to get desc sorted posts by score or trend (score/time): https://github.com/faroukfaiz10/hackernews-homepage

The result looks something like this ({score/time} - {score} - {link} - {comments link}):

  59 - 1478 - Passport Photos - https://maxsiedentopf.com/passport-photos/ - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42069646

  16 - 790 - Useful built-in macOS command-line utilities - https://weiyen.net/articles/useful-macos-cmd-line-utilities- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42057431

  ...

ElijahLynn• 2 years ago

Love it!!!

djaygour• 2 years ago

Hey HN, I'm building a payment solution that lets customers buy directly from social media without leaving platforms like Instagram, Facebook, etc. So why do we all need this? There are millions of small and medium businesses and brands that can't establish an online presence, and most of them regularly use social media to post about their products.

I want to help these businesses. Instagram and Facebook have shopping features, but only for a few brands, and they are not available in many regions like India. India has the world's second most active social media users and millions of businesses trying to acquire customers using social media. I want users and buyers to be able to shop directly from posts without leaving the app. I want my payment model on these platforms to create more convenience for customers and reduce business costs.

So, if someone who has worked at Facebook, Instagram, or any other company has valuable advice for me, please share.

How can I make this happen?

Will these platforms allow me to?

Thank you

p_bits• 2 years ago

This is the first time in a while I've experienced someone else making a design I have been thinking off, have it even somewhere in my ideas list, newspaper but a more "brutalism" design. I love this, great job!

AriyanWasi• 2 years ago

I love it. Better UI in general. The only thing is how would I comment on a post? If it had that feature I would even maybe use this exclusively.

You could maybe just redirect to the comment page?

mahin21• 2 years ago

The 'COMMENTS' text takes you to the post.

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