Hey, I just saw this post from hckrnews . com and want to say that I use it everyday! Thank you its a great website!

So cool! Thanks for this!

Mobile responsiveness?

One of the strengths of hacker news is how the core site hasn't really changed (no broken links on any story back to ~2007 as far as I can tell). This steadiness is a rare and valuable feature.

The fact that they do this yet also expose the data and access to enable a proliferation of cool alternatives views like this one is extremely user-friendly. Unfortunately, the rest of the internet seems to be going in a different direction and locking things down.

I built a native rust based hacker news client (open source on github):

http://fastHNreader.com

And I saw this post from it :)

Love the inclusion of Small Web filter!

This is awesome! As someone who's trying to be less chronically online, but still wants to keep on top of what's new I love this.

i find your design easier on my eyes and the content much more accessible. Congratulations.

Since no one is able to come close to HN UI/UX for many years, I wonder if HN used a UI/UX designer. If so then shout out to that designer

This is great. Love the small web filter.

Well done! I will be using it.

Thank you for the keyword filter!

I like that it’s inspired by hckrnews.com but it’s not installed like a pwa, it just opens as a new tab when I add it to the iOS home screen. Hckrnews behaves much more like an app without browser chrome.

Other than that I like it and will use it instead of hckrnews

"Random recent" browsing is the best way to read Hacker News. It's not addictive, it gives you a quick sample of what people are thinking about recently, prevents your own biases from narrowing your view, etc. For example, https://rnsaffn.com/zg2/ where each page refresh gives you a random post, plus its parent thread, plus some detail about that post's author's history.

i like this a lot. any chance you can do the settings in as a url parameter so we can bookmark our preferred configuration?

Very cool, thank you for sharing

One thing that I miss, that I use a lot on HN, is the hide feature. It helps me clear the clutter of stuff that I either already read or am not going to read

Really like your UI! Built something similar for myself (also as an replacement for hckrnews.com): https://hnhub.dev/

Perhaps an inspired by https://hckrnews.com would be appropriate on the site?

btw, to those who want a dark mode for hcrknews, try: https://hckrnews.com/beta/

Noticed the site flickers when loading. Out of curiosity, I disabled JavaScript and reloaded the site. Unfortunately, the site doesn't work at all without JavaScript, whereas the official Hacker News frontend handles this use-case well.

I understand browsing without JavaScript isn't considered a valid use-case nowadays, but it would be nice if the site performed some sort of server-side data fetching. That way users don't experience flickering. As a bonus, while waiting for JavaScript to load, users can at least see headlines (but maybe not stories; that's totally fine).

Seeing something like this for /bestcomments would be great too. :)

Does one exist already?

Doesn’t look good on mobile, difficult to use

Great design!

How about view by #comments (besides time / #points)?

What does the colored vertical bar to the left of some posts represent?

too big

I like it! Suggestions:

* Clarify relationship with https://hckrnews.com/

* Don't put the settings in localStorage, use URL params. That has a lot of usability improvements including being able to share the state, bookmark it, and heads up the current state. Use Rison [1] for the URL params to make it nice to read.

* The settings overview is too terse. What does something like "Timeline, Top 20, Day, Comments"? Maybe you could turn that into a concise natural language sentence.

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1: https://github.com/kou64yama/rison2?tab=readme-ov-file

Very nice. Thanks.

Any plans for rss?

I currently use https://hnrss.github.io/ (another great project), but the additional filters (once they are available as params) would be nice for rss.

As long as I am here, thanks to whoever is responsible for https://hckrnews.com, too.

I made a site called Hackerbrain a while back. #13 here: https://hackerbits.com/hacker-news/improve-hacker-news-ui/

One of the best things about it (as mentioned in article) is the ability to see the top comment on any item very quickly.

Try it here:

https://web.archive.org/web/20180804173424/http://hackerbra....

Press "top" on any item. Also try the number on each.

Note how the comments can toggle open/shut and the colors.

I would definitely use that feature. :)

Also note the byline indents, curved boxes, spacing and popups on each single comment link.

I appreciate the option to use dark mode and customize the font size.

It's just jarring though to switch the actual Hacker News comment section from the site.

There is an "Awesome Hacker News" at https://github.com/cheeaun/awesome-hacker-news

Perhaps, you should send a pull request to add this.

Would have been good if the familiar navbar would have been retained. Btw /show gave 404. Trivial to support those urls. The filters were too tough to find.

Great design! What did you use for the drawer in the mobile version? I love it!

Need to have ability to read comments tree. Check out my exp: https://pravosleva.pro/dist.hacker-news-2024/#/news/44075353

Thank you very much, it looks very cool. Personally, I miss the *hotkeys* because it's not very convenient to constantly click "show" on the automatically collapsing settings block.

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Why?

Just tried it on mobile—works very nicely. One thing you could consider would be the ability to upvote a post from the hcker news page (ie you click on a link and read the post and then you come back to hcker page (close other tab) and want to upvote it but don’t necessarily want to go to the commments page. You’d have to be logged in to HN already, I presume. Not sure if this is even possible, just mentioning FWIW