Show HN: HN Glance – a visual way to read Hacker News • Hacker News Board

Love the combination of simple and modern UI over HN. Not sure if this is just a demo or a final form, but I am lagging too much scrolling through the posts.

Re: Show HN: HN Glance – a visual way to read Hacker News

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Post by adrianwaj » Sun, Jul 26, 2026, 1:34 AM UTC

Interesting. Have you seen this? https://www.orangecrumbs.com/hn/

For HN Glance, perhaps there could be the list/previews column on the left, middle column for full-viewing with the right column as comments. Both 1st and 3rd columns can also be floating, and auto-hide when mouseover on the middle column and show again when mouseout.

Re: Show HN: HN Glance – a visual way to read Hacker News

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Post by valentinvieriu » Sun, Jul 26, 2026, 5:55 AM UTC

adrianwaj wrote: post #5

Interesting. Have you seen this? https://www.orangecrumbs.com/hn/ For HN Glance, perhaps there could be the list/previews column on the left, middle column for full-viewing with the right column as comments. Both 1st and 3rd columns can also be floating, and auto-hide when mouseover on the middle column and show again when mouseout.

I didn't knew this project. Thank you for sharing. I'm always looking for better ways to consume / filter this amount of information.

Re: Show HN: HN Glance – a visual way to read Hacker News

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Post by valentinvieriu » Sun, Jul 26, 2026, 6:00 AM UTC

sakhund wrote: post #4

Love the combination of simple and modern UI over HN. Not sure if this is just a demo or a final form, but I am lagging too much scrolling through the posts.

I assume the lag is browser-dependent. I don’t resize images for thumbnails. I want to keep this simple and cheap to maintain. My next step is to find an easy-to-maintain pipeline for generating screenshots and thumbnails.

Re: Show HN: HN Glance – a visual way to read Hacker News

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Post by valentinvieriu » Sun, Jul 26, 2026, 6:15 AM UTC

adrianwaj wrote: post #5

Interesting. Have you seen this? https://www.orangecrumbs.com/hn/ For HN Glance, perhaps there could be the list/previews column on the left, middle column for full-viewing with the right column as comments. Both 1st and 3rd columns can also be floating, and auto-hide when mouseover on the middle column and show again when mouseout.

Now that I’ve had a closer look at https://www.orangecrumbs.com, I see that they’re trying to address the same problem: how to enhance the consumption of those valuable feeds and provide additional insights to their users.

I appreciate your proposal, and in a way, I’ve already explored a similar idea. However, for this concept to be successful, you’ll need a large screen, preferably wide. Unfortunately, I haven’t had a comparable good experience on mobile devices.

I’ll revisit this idea. Thank you for the feedback. However, I want to ensure that the reader remains focused. In today’s fast-paced world, everything revolves around quick consumption and filtering options. I wanted to create a quick way to scan and evaluate the content, followed by a simple way to immerse oneself in the article, read it, scan it, and check the comments.

Re: Show HN: HN Glance – a visual way to read Hacker News

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Jul 27, 2026, 2:08 AM UTC

valentinvieriu wrote: post #8

adrianwaj wrote: post #5

Interesting. Have you seen this? https://www.orangecrumbs.com/hn/ For HN Glance, perhaps there could be the list/previews column on the left, middle column for full-viewing with the right column as comments. Both 1st and 3rd columns can also be floating, and auto-hide when mouseover on the middle column and show again when mouseout.

Now that I’ve had a closer look at https://www.orangecrumbs.com , I see that they’re trying to address the same problem: how to enhance the consumption of those valuable feeds and provide additional insights to their users. I appreciate your proposal, and in a way, I’ve already explored a similar idea. However, for this concept to be successful, you’ll need a large screen, preferably wide. Unfortunately, I haven’t ha…

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Re: Show HN: HN Glance – a visual way to read Hacker News

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Post by adrianwaj » Mon, Jul 27, 2026, 5:43 AM UTC

valentinvieriu wrote: post #6

adrianwaj wrote: post #5

Interesting. Have you seen this? https://www.orangecrumbs.com/hn/ For HN Glance, perhaps there could be the list/previews column on the left, middle column for full-viewing with the right column as comments. Both 1st and 3rd columns can also be floating, and auto-hide when mouseover on the middle column and show again when mouseout.

I didn't knew this project. Thank you for sharing. I'm always looking for better ways to consume / filter this amount of information.

I just created script for ViolentMonkey for viewing top comments in a sidebar.

https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/588721-hacker-news-comment...

used ChatGPT for this one - did much better than Gemini.