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Re: Show HN: A better Hacker News front end

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Post by BoredPositron » Sun, Oct 19, 2025, 9:25 AM UTC

What's not broken is easily fixed.

Re: Show HN: A better Hacker News front end

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Post by brazukadev » Sun, Oct 19, 2025, 9:26 AM UTC

upmostly wrote: post #5

For me, the only lacking feature of vanilla HN is dark mode. I wish they'd add that. Other than that, it's perfect.

Compared to lobster.rs there's another useful feature that I miss: unread messages in a thread

Re: Show HN: A better Hacker News front end

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Post by InMice » Sun, Oct 19, 2025, 9:26 AM UTC

Spacing between comments is pretty wide. Gives me that feeling when they redesign a site and everything is spaced our 2x more than it was before. Some text feels too small at default zoom.

Also you followed original HN here making clicked on links grey, ive always found it annoyingly hard to quikcly spot them in the list after they get turned grey.

Thanks for sharing this

Re: Show HN: A better Hacker News front end

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Post by nabunub » Sun, Oct 19, 2025, 9:26 AM UTC

Opened it on mobile. UI looks more modern of course, but scrolling is just plain horrible.

Re: Show HN: A better Hacker News front end

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Post by maratc » Sun, Oct 19, 2025, 9:27 AM UTC

upmostly wrote: post #5

For me, the only lacking feature of vanilla HN is dark mode. I wish they'd add that. Other than that, it's perfect.

Could this (in theory) be achieved with a per-user "load css from url" field?

Re: Show HN: A better Hacker News front end

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Post by mvdwoord » Sun, Oct 19, 2025, 9:28 AM UTC

upmostly wrote: post #5

For me, the only lacking feature of vanilla HN is dark mode. I wish they'd add that. Other than that, it's perfect.

I found stylus to work really well for this.. I have most of my apps typically in Nord palette. For some frequently visited websites, such as HN, I apply the Nord theme. Not sure if it was already built by someone else, but something I found chatbots are quite good at is creating custom CSS! I point it at a website and ask for a Nord themed customs CSS. Copy Paste into Stylus... most sites I tried it oneshotted a very decent solution.

Re: Show HN: A better Hacker News front end

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Post by mkl » Sun, Oct 19, 2025, 9:29 AM UTC

First impression: this is strictly worse. Way too much space between everything (even between lines in paragraphs!) means fewer stories visible on screen, and fewer comments visible. Enormous pointless spaces between comments, grey comment text is harder to read. Site links on stories don't link to site's stories. Data is out of date.

Re: Show HN: A better Hacker News front end

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Post by ramon156 » Sun, Oct 19, 2025, 9:30 AM UTC

So what's worse/better? What did u fix? What didn't u fix?

All this description says that it's better for you. Why? What could be improved?

I mostly check HN on my phone. Harmonic is awesome for this, and I can definitely tell you why it's better for phones.

- Nice filtering - infinite scroll - local bookmarking - rich UI for actions

Re: Show HN: A better Hacker News front end

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Post by [deleted] » Sun, Oct 19, 2025, 9:30 AM UTC

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Re: Show HN: A better Hacker News front end

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Post by midenginedcoupe » Sun, Oct 19, 2025, 9:31 AM UTC

Font size is one of my biggest bugbears with HN, as well as the terrible colour contrast on downvoted posts.

I scratched my itch with a custom UserScript

https://github.com/mgladdish/website-customisations/tree/mai...

I'm particularly pleased with how quotes are rendered - I wouldn't go back to 'default' HN now.