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

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

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Post by jbaber »

crazygringo wrote: post #89

Wow. I thought this would just be gimmicky, but I kind of... almost actually like it better than the main HN page. Having text snippets from the first paragraph, and an image, give me waaay more information as to whether something's interesting enough to click. This is really, really nice. A bunch of random thoughts, hopefully it's useful feedback: - I don't care about it looking like a "paper", but I love the grid v…

I, too, am shocked by how much data I seem to think is in a blurb and an image. My usual HN headline triage time is reduced by a factor of 5 with this view.

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

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Post by gitgud »

Pretty cool, but the format looks like literally every other news site now right? (title + image + read more)

To me, the best thing about HN and Reddit is being able to efficiently skim through many article titles at once, without judging; writing style or image quality.

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

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Post by wolfgang42 »

nathcd wrote: post #65
wolfgang42 wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.)

For whatever it's worth, on mobile I think I'd prefer it without images, or maybe just a select few images throughout the page. The page just feels too long. I'm not sure what a good way would be to pick out which to show though. But I really like this! I'm excited to try it on desktop in a bit.

30 items is a lot no matter how you slice it, really. I did experiment with hiding some of the image but I couldn’t think of a way of identifying “good” images; and having them appear and disappear based on things like position on the page seemed to just make things more confusing.

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

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Post by crimsonalucard5 »

keithnz wrote: post #76

sad there isn't an infinite recursion of the paper showing this page in an article. It's just one deep.... but maybe if we can get this towards the #1 spot....

It's there!

Normally this would cause a bug where the page would never load as it's waiting for the infinite recursion to finish.

There must be some time limit set on the headless browser that just converts the page to a screenshot once the time limit threshold has crossed.

Makes sense given the fact that there's probably no way to determine whether or not a website has "finished" loading anyway.

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