alt Hacker Newsstill prefer the simplicity of a reverse river, with a focus on votes and comments https://hckrnews.com/
its incredibly easy to immediately tell when something was posted, and how popular it was. there s no automagic rearranging or movement.
similar to https://techmeme.com/river
Open up the settings bar at the top and set the story layout to "hckr". That layout is directly inspired by hckrnews.com.