Hacker News front page as a site

(thefrontpage.dev)

61 points | by thatxliner 3 hours ago

17 comments

  • ammar_x 1 hour ago
    Cool, but body font size is too small for comfortable reading!
    • throwawayAAUGGH 28 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 13 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 51 minutes ago
        Or have a button that makes the text left-aligned for easier reading.
        • Wowfunhappy 43 minutes ago
          I think that very much defeats the point of making it look like a newspaper.
          • entropie 36 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 32 minutes ago
              This entire submission is styled to look like a newspaper. If you just want information go to news.ycombinator.com.
    • daviding 51 minutes ago
      An overridden `.newspaper-copy { font-size: 1rem; }` works well.
    • Retr0id 1 hour ago
      Sounds like an authentic HN experience to me!
  • revv00 21 minutes ago
    Cool, seems need some deduplication. Maybe when you turn to the new page, some items fall back.
    • stagas 10 minutes ago
      It is possible. Will look into it.
  • bijowo1676 16 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

  • BeetleB 20 minutes ago
    Why is the text one long paragraph? Makes it very hard to read?
    • stagas 16 minutes ago
      Because I'm telling the AI "summarize it to one paragraph".
  • chrisgen19 56 minutes ago
    I like the concept, the grid and the design. but the small text description is hurting my eyes.
    • stagas 49 minutes ago
      Just made it a bit bigger.
  • insin 26 minutes ago
    Nice try at trying to get me to read the friendly articles ;)
  • clacker-o-matic 40 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 14 minutes ago
      Tricks of the trade :)
  • smartial_arts 54 minutes ago
    Previews are v slow to load for some reason
    • stagas 8 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
  • namrog84 39 minutes ago
    Is it just me or is there something slightly weird about scrolling? Maybe font or color. Im on mobile.
  • wanoir 2 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.
  • 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 45 minutes ago
    this is now my new default for hackernews.
  • delichon 3 hours ago
    Now do clay tablets.