Ask HN: What are good high-information density UIs (screenshots, apps, sites)?

Post by postalcoder » Thu, May 22, 2025, 4:44 PM UTC

ristomatti wrote: post #377

postalcoder wrote: post #145

I'm working on a Hacker News front page with the idea of UI density as a foundational concept. https://hcker.news I haven't did a Show HN yet but I'd love to get some feedback on it first. It's got a lot of configurable views and can be made extremely dense (dense mode on + columns: auto). The aesthetic itself was made to deviate as little from the HN frontpage as possible. It's got a lot of filtering knick knacks li…

Late to comment but this is awesome! I've been a long time user if hckrnews.com. What I'd like to see is it's option to open the links in HackerWeb. It makes reading the discussions much easier on mobile/tablet in my opinion. Another feature request would be font size adjustment. Two columns look great on a tablet but the font size is slightly too small. Keep up the great work!