Quite cool actually
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#32You should find a better font and work a little on the proportions. Nice to see the images, a little more polished and I would use this instead of the normal HN website.
The font is whatever you have as the default in your browser—if you don’t like it then set a better one :)
I agree about the spacing, it feels off to me too but I couldn’t put my finger on why. Whitespace has always been a challenge for me (I still remember my mom looking at my elementary school projects and telling me repeatedly, “Margins! You need more margins!”) and though I’m getting better at it I don’t expect to get a job in graphics design any time soon. If anyone has suggestions for improvements I’d be glad to hear them.
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#33Well, the distinct lack of "lorem ipsum" is a positive!
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#34I really like this
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#35amazing how quickly he went from inspiration to implementation. absolutely love it.
Thanks! I was inspired by looking at unim.press and wondering, “how hard would it be to put an extract from the page there instead of lorem ipsum?” (Quite difficult, it turns out—I don’t think there’s any way short of human curation or maybe some sort of ML training on a large corpus—but you can get reasonably far with a carefully tuned set of CSS selectors for commonly seen class names.)
It took me about 8 or 10 hours yesterday to build, and I think about half of that was tweaking the heuristics for the paragraph/image extraction and keyword selection (the “STYLE, 3” that links to the thread page).
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#37I have JS off by default and the site still loads -- in fact it's exactly the same (including all functionality) except it's got a mobile layout? When I enable JS then it lays out like a real newspaper. That's interesting.
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#38Looks nice and inviting :- )
Took a while until I realized what to click, to jump to the actual discussions. What about showing a "NN comments" clickable link at the end of the articles? But: "... the master branch. SDF, 1" — then not so obvious what to click.
This "HN newspaper" could maybe be a good way to make people interested in tech, if anyone wants that for some reason
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#39This is great. It reminds me how much I miss the straightforward, full screen width layouts from 15+ years ago.