Show HN: Read Hacker News Like Pinterest – Built with Vuejs

Hi, I'm the author of this project. The code will be available soon on github: at https://github.com/valentinvieriu/visual-hacker-news - right now that's the old version using Angularjs

The project uses as a starting point the amazing Vuejs Implementation from https://github.com/vuejs/vue-hackernews-2.0 . It has super fast server side rendering, that's why the feedback is imediate as you load the page.

The thumbnails are generated using phantomjs server. I'm using https://github.com/blockai/phantom-pool to make sure the phantomjs instance is reused. This improves the speed of the screenshots quite well. Also I'm using a scheduling node package (https://github.com/Automattic/kue) to make sure that images are pre cached as the link are submited to hackernews.

I'll post the code on https://github.com/valentinvieriu/vue-hackernews-2.0, but need to take care of some hardcoded redis credentials first. I'll give a reply when it's up

Thank you for the interest! I'll do my best to reply to all questions if there is interest on this project.

Agree with this, the first version had no autorefresh. But this is quite annoying if you have this open in a tab. You get old news, and that kind of is against the purpose of the app.

Thank you

Wow - it actually made "new" look interesting to me. When I look at "new" on classic HN, the "0 point 0 comments" and expectation of low quality means I rarely click anything. This drew me into interesting articles I would not otherwise read. Great - very valuable!

The title is nearly always visible on the rendered page. The overlayed title adds a lot of extra noise that is spoiling the browsing experience for me. Can you make it optional or on-hover please? I also don't want points/comment prejudicing my judgement of whether a story is worth reading. I feel the unique value this brings for "new" is to get you closer to the content "pre-click" and help you evaluate a page/story on its own merits. I still prefer classic HN for "top" where I'm interested in the discussion more than the stories.

The relayout mid-scroll was really annoying. I have a refresh button, let me control it please!

Nice work. I had a similar idea, but to show just the first comment of each post, probably in the same index page or when hovering the link. I find it useful to read the first comment when the title is not very descriptive.

Probably using Riot.js , or just a bookmarklet with javascript