Hacker News front page as a site • Hacker News Board

BeetleB wrote: post #100

hliyan wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This was the natural length of a paragraph before the emergence of engagement driven microblogging.

It's not about the length l. The point of a paragraph is to convey one idea. Some of the paragraphs don't do that.

Because its AI slop. It’s not a designed website.

Re: Hacker News front page as a site

#105

Post by _HMCB_ » Tue, May 26, 2026, 2:08 PM UTC

Love. Relax the leading, though. The tight lines make it feel claustrophobic.

Re: Hacker News front page as a site

#106

Post by subarctic » Tue, May 26, 2026, 2:16 PM UTC

m132 wrote: post #58

Love the summaries, I must say some stories I haven't considered interesting seeing them in the original HN view only caught my attention after my eyes landed on the summary. At the same time, I very much dislike the layout. Masonry-style layouts, at least to me, feel more "artsy" than practical. Multiple rows being displayed at once, with the most crucial information being chaotically all over the place instead of a…

Great layout on mobile, but not so great on wider screens, I find it hard to scan as well

Re: Hacker News front page as a site

#107

Post by j-b » Tue, May 26, 2026, 2:19 PM UTC

Very nice. It'd be cool to have an option to collapse the summary content to skim through everything.

Re: Hacker News front page as a site

#108

Post by subarctic » Tue, May 26, 2026, 2:27 PM UTC

I love this. Very cool that it made the front page and therefore has an entry for itself. I wonder if the summary could be updated again so that it includes a reference to itself in its summary of itself

Re: Hacker News front page as a site

#109

Post by ian_j_butler » Tue, May 26, 2026, 2:30 PM UTC

Why does someone go to the effort/expense of doing summaries without adding tags? The goal is less slop and not more, and this really just hurts usability after you've already spent money that could actually help? Isn't this the whole value proposition for literally everyone or am I nuts? I don't want a summary. I will switch immediately to the first alternative that allows tags/categories/filtering.

Re: Hacker News front page as a site

#110

Post by stgo » Tue, May 26, 2026, 2:36 PM UTC

I hope the V2 will be like 'It happened tomorrow' (the 1944 movie with Veronica Lake)