Show HN: A Reddit reader that looks like the frontpage of a print newspaper • Hacker News Board

Re: Show HN: A Reddit reader that looks like the frontpage of a print newspaper

#11

Post by ipunchghosts » Sat, Jun 27, 2020, 2:32 AM UTC

Great work!

Re: Show HN: A Reddit reader that looks like the frontpage of a print newspaper

#12

Post by thesephist » Sat, Jun 27, 2020, 2:33 AM UTC

mellosouls wrote: post #10

This is superb, a very cool idea! Congrats.

Thanks! Always fun when a showerthought turns out to be something interesting for more than just me.

Re: Show HN: A Reddit reader that looks like the frontpage of a print newspaper

#13

Post by excalibur » Sat, Jun 27, 2020, 2:39 AM UTC

Would be cool if there was one of these for the front page of HN. Pretty challenging to parse though. Headlines and comments should be simple enough, articles and images not so much.

Re: Show HN: A Reddit reader that looks like the frontpage of a print newspaper

#14

Post by mellosouls » Sat, Jun 27, 2020, 2:40 AM UTC

thesephist wrote: post #12

mellosouls wrote: post #10

This is superb, a very cool idea! Congrats.

Thanks! Always fun when a showerthought turns out to be something interesting for more than just me.

Next up: the spinning newspaper headline entree...

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SpinningPaper

Re: Show HN: A Reddit reader that looks like the frontpage of a print newspaper

#15

Post by thesephist » Sat, Jun 27, 2020, 2:40 AM UTC

excalibur wrote: post #13

Would be cool if there was one of these for the front page of HN. Pretty challenging to parse though. Headlines and comments should be simple enough, articles and images not so much.

My thoughts too! Hacker News was actually in a prototype of this and you can try it by going to https://unim.press/#hn -- but indeed, it didn't look great without pictures. Might be able to scrape linked articles and such, but I didn't get that far in an afternoon hack.

Re: Show HN: A Reddit reader that looks like the frontpage of a print newspaper

#16

Post by donohoe » Sat, Jun 27, 2020, 2:41 AM UTC

People built things like this 10+ years ago and they were awful, and ridiculed by people in places like HN etc.

This format looks good on paper, but on screens its a mess and poorly formatted one at that.

Can we stop re-inventing bad UX all over again?

Re: Show HN: A Reddit reader that looks like the frontpage of a print newspaper

#17

Post by scienceman » Sat, Jun 27, 2020, 2:57 AM UTC

Very cool. I think filtering tags like "[OC]" could make it look even better.

Re: Show HN: A Reddit reader that looks like the frontpage of a print newspaper

#18

Post by dillonmckay » Sat, Jun 27, 2020, 2:59 AM UTC

Also would be cool to have some sort of ML NLP that makes the headlines ‘read’ more like a newspaper.

Re: Show HN: A Reddit reader that looks like the frontpage of a print newspaper

#19

Post by LukeShu » Sat, Jun 27, 2020, 3:00 AM UTC

slater wrote: post #3

The Same Origin Policy disallows reading the remote resource at https://api.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/hot?limit=25 . (Reason: CORS request did not succeed). The resource at “ https://api.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/hot?limit=25” was blocked because content blocking is enabled. ReferenceError: error is not defined MacOS, Firefox 77.0.1

I had to disable Firefox's Enhanced Tracking Protection for the site in order for it to work. (GNU/Linux, Firefox 77.0.1)

Re: Show HN: A Reddit reader that looks like the frontpage of a print newspaper

#20

Post by egfx » Sat, Jun 27, 2020, 3:09 AM UTC

This would be cooler if there were an option to export to pdf and epub