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Re: Show HN: Hacker News front page in the style of a print newspaper

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Post by dharmab »

wolfgang42 wrote: post #32
gioscarab wrote: post #25

You 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 t…

> The font is whatever you have as the default in your browser—if you don’t like it then set a better one :)

The default serif fonts on most systems aren't the best choice for a site that is trying to imitate print media.

Re: Show HN: Hacker News front page in the style of a print newspaper

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Post by yingw787 »

This is really cool, definitely see some of the polish come out since the last version published here.

If you wanted to host this indefinitely for $12 / year, you could buy a domain like hackernewspaper.com or something similar, and host the frontend using a static HTML/CSS/JS bundle on S3 + CloudFront + Route 53. For reference, here's a CloudFormation (infrastructure-as-code) template I made for that stack here: https://github.com/tinydevcrm/tinydevcrm-api-docs/blob/a4d29...

Re: Show HN: Hacker News front page in the style of a print newspaper

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Post by wolfgang42 »

andai wrote: post #37

I 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.

Progressive enhancement! CSS isn’t quite up to the task of arranging things the way I wanted so I’m using Masonry.js for layout. (This is also why there’s a progress bar while the page loads—it needs to wait for all the images so Masonry knows how much space everything takes. I’d like to cache the images and pre-specify their sizes but haven’t gotten to it yet.)

Re: Show HN: Hacker News front page in the style of a print newspaper

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Post by yingw787 »

yingw787 wrote: post #43

This is really cool, definitely see some of the polish come out since the last version published here. If you wanted to host this indefinitely for $12 / year, you could buy a domain like hackernewspaper.com or something similar, and host the frontend using a static HTML/CSS/JS bundle on S3 + CloudFront + Route 53. For reference, here's a CloudFormation (infrastructure-as-code) template I made for that stack here: htt…

To clarify, the $12 / year would be the cost of the domain name, running the stack should be close to free.

Re: Show HN: Hacker News front page in the style of a print newspaper

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Post by GCA10 »

Fascinating! Just to keep the conversation going, I'll argue that HN's current format works much better for me.

I appreciate newspaper formats when dozens of stories have roughly equal appeal to me, and I get value out of lingering on each one for 5-30 seconds before moving on.

HN, for me, is intensely bimodal. The bare-bones listing of headlines lets me skim very fast past the 93% that don't quite work for me -- and dive into the 7% that are today's gems. Those then deserve a close read and many minutes in the comments.

So I'd be very frustrated if HN switched to newspaper mode. But everyone's tastes are different, and having both formats available would be cool.

Re: Show HN: Hacker News front page in the style of a print newspaper

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Post by ozkan »

yingw787 wrote: post #45
yingw787 wrote: post #43

This is really cool, definitely see some of the polish come out since the last version published here. If you wanted to host this indefinitely for $12 / year, you could buy a domain like hackernewspaper.com or something similar, and host the frontend using a static HTML/CSS/JS bundle on S3 + CloudFront + Route 53. For reference, here's a CloudFormation (infrastructure-as-code) template I made for that stack here: htt…

To clarify, the $12 / year would be the cost of the domain name, running the stack should be close to free.

how is it free?

Re: Show HN: Hacker News front page in the style of a print newspaper

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Post by gpm »

ozkan wrote: post #48
yingw787 wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To clarify, the $12 / year would be the cost of the domain name, running the stack should be close to free.

how is it free?

Because "AWS Free Tier includes 50GB data transfer out, 2,000,000 HTTP and HTTPS Requests with Amazon CloudFront" presumably.

For small websites you can often find ways to fit inside free tiers these days. If this site is just static files you could use similarly use netlify (100GB/month free). Or you could use a free tier VPS from GCP/AWS and cloudflare to cache traffic (to keep you under the free tier bandwidth limits). Or so on.

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