Hacker News front page as a site

"Hacker News front page as a site

The Front Page highlights a diverse set of tech and science stories"

It is interesting the summary it generated for itself wasn't able to describe itself as a Hacker News content view. It missed the big picture meta context.

Love the summaries, I must say some stories I haven't considered interesting seeing them in the original HN view only caught my attention after my eyes landed on the summary.

At the same time, I very much dislike the layout. Masonry-style layouts, at least to me, feel more "artsy" than practical. Multiple rows being displayed at once, with the most crucial information being chaotically all over the place instead of arranged in a way that makes it easy to scan it with your eyes, make me feel like I'm bombarded with information. It's very hard to follow along and very easy to miss articles; almost anxiety-inducing, even. There's hardly any point to this on a website; it's not like you're wasting any paper.

You need some filler for the space at the bottom. Something like ads from the 1800's for quack medical devices or Radium Therapy. Maybe something wildly misogynistic advertising laudanum.

I am almost certain this layout is generated by AI, because I vibe coded the exact same newspaper-like style weeks ago.

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.

Cool, but body font size is too small for comfortable reading!

I thought it already had a site?

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!

This is great )) maybe do random templates similar to newspapers (like photo on the left, photo on the right, one block full width, then 3 columns, etc).

Beautifully unusable

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).

Its like reading a newspaper of sorts.

I like the concept, the grid and the design. but the small text description is hurting my eyes.

Nice! Happy to see the site appearing as itself on the front page doesn't cause some crazy recursive crash :)

Cool, seems need some deduplication. Maybe when you turn to the new page, some items fall back.

Would be cool to see different column layouts too!

Nice design, gives a cozy feeling similar to reading a newspaper

Why is the text one long paragraph? Makes it very hard to read?

i love it. would be cool to get the date lookbacks too - like this https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2026-05-22

Nice try at trying to get me to read the friendly articles ;)

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

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

Previews are v slow to load for some reason

This looks amazing!!!

hey that's pretty cool. I think I still prefer "distill HN" cleanliness though. What made you create this.

Is it just me or is there something slightly weird about scrolling? Maybe font or color. Im on mobile.

This page now contains itself.

Nice design, but I can't afford the $3.50 price of the cup of coffee, atm (◡︵◡)(◠‿◠)

Now do clay tablets.

this is now my new default for hackernews.

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