Show HN: Hacker Herald – like HN but with crowdsourced pics and subtitles

Hi folks this is a project I worked on with some of my students when I was running an online JS programming course. Although the online course is no more, I finally got around to releasing Hacker Herald with a former instructor and student - thanks Arnav and Archis!

To those wondering if there is a need for such a Hacker News front end, I would just point out that most newspaper websites are laid out like this - clearly some people like this kind of layout!

Also for some stories a picture really does help - currently there is a HN story titled, "Portland airport grows with expansive mass timber roof canopy". But IMO it's better to actually see a picture of the timber roof while scrolling rather than having to click through to the article.

Show HN: Hacker Herald – like HN but with crowdsourced pics and subtitles
hackerherald.com

My first reaction was: this is super cool. I can't say whether I'll stick to it as I often read HN via newsboat and https://hnrss.org/frontpage, but I'll give it a try! Thanks for sharing!

Always great to see alternative hackernews frontends!

I really like the newspaper like layout.

My own hackernews frontend project is this: https://news.facts.dev/interests

The goal was to add a quick way to filter by interests

One tip, it might be an idea to create permalinks, so that people can open up the page at any specific date instead of just the past week. I don't know if that's feasible though, is the data for each page generated statically or kept updated?

Adding search would be a nice value-add