Hacker News Digest: A responsive HN with summaries and illustrations

#1

Post by feltsense » Fri, Oct 18, 2019, 6:24 PM UTC

Hacker News Digest: A responsive HN with summaries and illustrations
hackernews.betacat.io

Re: Hacker News Digest: A responsive HN with summaries and illustrations

#2

Post by eagletusk » Fri, Oct 18, 2019, 8:14 PM UTC

Are thumbnails called illustrations industry wide? This is my first time seeing this use.

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#3

Post by jedberg » Fri, Oct 18, 2019, 8:34 PM UTC

How do you get to the comments from your page? I couldn't figure it out.

Edit: I ironically chose a link with 0 comments. So let me amend that: You should indicate when a link has no comments. :)

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Post by yorwba » Fri, Oct 18, 2019, 8:34 PM UTC

eagletusk wrote: post #2

Are thumbnails called illustrations industry wide? This is my first time seeing this use.

I'm pretty sure the developer is not a native speaker. The email in the contact link looks like a Chinese name and I've seen this site shared in Chinese technology forums before.

Re: Hacker News Digest: A responsive HN with summaries and illustrations

#5

Post by tomatotomato37 » Fri, Oct 18, 2019, 8:36 PM UTC

Not to disparage your coder skills, but I think this is a good example of why the "brutalist" style of HN is superior. In exchange for a 5MB deluge of scripts that takes 20 seconds to fully load (actually it just jumped up another 3MB while I was typing this) and a 20s finish time I get maybe ~3 HN entires on screen at a time, versus the main site where I get 20+ entries on 50kb of resources

Also drop the google analytics & addthis trackers man. If the main site doesn't need it then your <1000 hits per month scraper don't need them either.

Re: Hacker News Digest: A responsive HN with summaries and illustrations

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Post by skavi » Fri, Oct 18, 2019, 8:50 PM UTC

The current HN already adapts well to mobile. Though, I suppose some may prefer the more modern aesthetic presented here.

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Post by least » Fri, Oct 18, 2019, 8:57 PM UTC

tomatotomato37 wrote: post #5

Not to disparage your coder skills, but I think this is a good example of why the "brutalist" style of HN is superior. In exchange for a 5MB deluge of scripts that takes 20 seconds to fully load (actually it just jumped up another 3MB while I was typing this) and a 20s finish time I get maybe ~3 HN entires on screen at a time, versus the main site where I get 20+ entries on 50kb of resources Also drop the google anal…

I actually appreciate how they approached their aggregation. It's pleasant to the eyes, is readable, and adds some visual interest to the feed. Little excerpts and thumbnails better help me decide whether or not I want to click on a link.

I don't think information density (in actual space) is as valuable to me as it is to you, though.

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Post by jeffshek » Fri, Oct 18, 2019, 9:02 PM UTC

There's some harsher comments here, and it's one of my larger fears when posting anything to HN. The technical crowd can be unforgiving at times.

I loaded the site on desktop, I liked the visual arrangement a lot -- it's a clean/fresh aesthetic.

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Post by delerna » Fri, Oct 18, 2019, 9:09 PM UTC

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hackerbot-for-hacker-news/id14...

Shame self-promotion of my Hackerbot app for iOS.

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#10

Post by etherio » Fri, Oct 18, 2019, 9:55 PM UTC

I'm curious, how do you get the descriptions from the blog posts??