Hacker News front page as a site • Hacker News Board

Re: Hacker News front page as a site

#31

Post by stagas » Mon, May 25, 2026, 11:34 PM UTC

clacker-o-matic wrote: post #20

oh this is sick; i wonder where the curly bits at the top and bottom came from; based on the svg artifacts it looks converted from a raster

Tricks of the trade :)

Re: Hacker News front page as a site

#32

Post by stagas » Mon, May 25, 2026, 11:35 PM UTC

throwawayAAUGGH wrote: post #24

ammar_x wrote: post #5

Cool, but body font size is too small for comfortable reading!

OP, I love the font size as is, have multiple options if you're going to change things! Remember the users that loved things as they were!

I did increase it in the meanwhile from when that comment was posted.

Re: Hacker News front page as a site

#33

Post by stagas » Mon, May 25, 2026, 11:38 PM UTC

revv00 wrote: post #27

Cool, seems need some deduplication. Maybe when you turn to the new page, some items fall back.

It is possible. Will look into it.

Re: Hacker News front page as a site

#34

Post by stagas » Mon, May 25, 2026, 11:40 PM UTC

smartial_arts wrote: post #14

Previews are v slow to load for some reason

Some of them are really large and I'm not resizing them or storing them, just proxying their og image directly. So they might be taking long to respond from the original source. Also getting hammerred by being in the front page.

Re: Hacker News front page as a site

#35

Post by oefrha » Mon, May 25, 2026, 11:50 PM UTC

Using text-align: justify for questionable aesthetic purpose here really hurts readability, especially on a narrower viewport like the 1026px viewport of Safari with sidebar on an iPad Pro 12.9’’ (although it’s probably more of a problem of the four column layout on that specific narrow viewport; three should be better).

Re: Hacker News front page as a site

#36

Post by fumeux_fume » Mon, May 25, 2026, 11:54 PM UTC

Nice! Happy to see the site appearing as itself on the front page doesn't cause some crazy recursive crash :)

Re: Hacker News front page as a site

#37

Post by almyk » Mon, May 25, 2026, 11:55 PM UTC

Nice design, gives a cozy feeling similar to reading a newspaper

Re: Hacker News front page as a site

#38

Post by stagas » Tue, May 26, 2026, 12:01 AM UTC

oefrha wrote: post #35

Using text-align: justify for questionable aesthetic purpose here really hurts readability, especially on a narrower viewport like the 1026px viewport of Safari with sidebar on an iPad Pro 12.9’’ (although it’s probably more of a problem of the four column layout on that specific narrow viewport; three should be better).

Made it 3, try again perhaps. Changing to text-align: left really destroys the aesthetic though.

Re: Hacker News front page as a site

#39

Post by sheept » Tue, May 26, 2026, 12:04 AM UTC

oefrha wrote: post #35

Using text-align: justify for questionable aesthetic purpose here really hurts readability, especially on a narrower viewport like the 1026px viewport of Safari with sidebar on an iPad Pro 12.9’’ (although it’s probably more of a problem of the four column layout on that specific narrow viewport; three should be better).

It could probably be helped a bit by enabling auto hyphenation, but ultimately browsers aren't optimized for typesetting narrow columns of text

Re: Hacker News front page as a site

#40

Post by stagas » Tue, May 26, 2026, 12:07 AM UTC

sheept wrote: post #39

oefrha wrote: post #35

Using text-align: justify for questionable aesthetic purpose here really hurts readability, especially on a narrower viewport like the 1026px viewport of Safari with sidebar on an iPad Pro 12.9’’ (although it’s probably more of a problem of the four column layout on that specific narrow viewport; three should be better).

It could probably be helped a bit by enabling auto hyphenation, but ultimately browsers aren't optimized for typesetting narrow columns of text

Great idea, I'm trying this.