Hacker News front page as a site

(thefrontpage.dev)

66 points | by thatxliner 3 hours ago

18 comments

  • oefrha 3 minutes ago
    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’’.
  • ammar_x 1 hour ago
    Cool, but body font size is too small for comfortable reading!
    • throwawayAAUGGH 32 minutes ago
      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 17 minutes ago
        I did increase it in the meanwhile from when that comment was posted.
    • Wowfunhappy 1 hour ago
      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 56 minutes ago
        Or have a button that makes the text left-aligned for easier reading.
        • Wowfunhappy 48 minutes ago
          I think that very much defeats the point of making it look like a newspaper.
          • entropie 41 minutes ago
            Which might be fine? Since web pages are not newspaper sites one might say its just not the ideal way of presenting information.
            • Wowfunhappy 36 minutes ago
              This entire submission is styled to look like a newspaper. If you just want information go to news.ycombinator.com.
    • Retr0id 1 hour ago
      Sounds like an authentic HN experience to me!
    • daviding 55 minutes ago
      An overridden `.newspaper-copy { font-size: 1rem; }` works well.
  • revv00 26 minutes ago
    Cool, seems need some deduplication. Maybe when you turn to the new page, some items fall back.
    • stagas 15 minutes ago
      It is possible. Will look into it.
  • bijowo1676 20 minutes ago
    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

  • chrisgen19 1 hour ago
    I like the concept, the grid and the design. but the small text description is hurting my eyes.
    • stagas 54 minutes ago
      Just made it a bit bigger.
  • BeetleB 25 minutes ago
    Why is the text one long paragraph? Makes it very hard to read?
    • stagas 21 minutes ago
      Because I'm telling the AI "summarize it to one paragraph".
  • insin 30 minutes ago
    Nice try at trying to get me to read the friendly articles ;)
  • clacker-o-matic 44 minutes ago
    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
    • stagas 19 minutes ago
      Tricks of the trade :)
  • smartial_arts 58 minutes ago
    Previews are v slow to load for some reason
    • stagas 13 minutes ago
      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.
  • anonu 1 hour ago
    i love it. would be cool to get the date lookbacks too - like this https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2026-05-22
  • wanoir 3 hours ago
    Would be cool to see different column layouts too!
    • irq-1 1 hour ago
      Yea -- it could use votes to pick a hero article, or change summary length.
  • namrog84 44 minutes ago
    Is it just me or is there something slightly weird about scrolling? Maybe font or color. Im on mobile.
  • galsapir 3 hours ago
    hey that's pretty cool. I think I still prefer "distill HN" cleanliness though. What made you create this.
    • thatxliner 1 hour ago
      I didn’t make this lol; just something cool I’ve found
  • sublinear 1 hour ago
    This page now contains itself.
  • SilentM68 1 hour ago
    Nice design, but I can't afford the $3.50 price of the cup of coffee, atm (◡︵◡)(◠‿◠)
  • himata4113 49 minutes ago
    this is now my new default for hackernews.
  • delichon 3 hours ago
    Now do clay tablets.