Hacker News front page as a site • Hacker News Board

Retr0id wrote: post #9

ammar_x wrote: post #5

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

Sounds like an authentic HN experience to me!

I keep it at 150% zoom level. That would still be on the small side if it was the default. But at least it's somewhat readable this way.

Re: Hacker News front page as a site

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Post by dominicrose » Tue, May 26, 2026, 7:59 AM UTC

It renders really well! Sad not to see the Ferrari Luce though.

Re: Hacker News front page as a site

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Post by darkwater » Tue, May 26, 2026, 8:02 AM UTC

Nice idea, I would not use AI summaries though but the actual first X words from each link real text (and using the README for repos).

Re: Hacker News front page as a site

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Post by 1e1a » Tue, May 26, 2026, 8:14 AM UTC

darkwater wrote: post #76

Nice idea, I would not use AI summaries though but the actual first X words from each link real text (and using the README for repos).

What about a global toggle to switch between the AI summaries and article snippets?

Re: Hacker News front page as a site

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Post by lionkor » Tue, May 26, 2026, 9:17 AM UTC

zoom6628 wrote: post #68

This is gorgeous. Makes me feel like I'm picking up an old news sheet. Forces me to read slowly from which I then enjoy the reading much more it's like difference of drinking a fine wine from a glass instead of a straw in the wine bottle. Kudos to the author.

> feel like I'm picking up an old news sheet

except those were laid out by hand with intent, whereas this one just kind of dumps all stories on a masonry board and calls it a day. This is likely why reading a (good) newspaper feels effortless, whereas reading this "forces you to read slowly".

Re: Hacker News front page as a site

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Post by t3r » Tue, May 26, 2026, 9:40 AM UTC

oliviergg wrote: post #67

est wrote: post #54

I am almost certain this layout is generated by AI, because I vibe coded the exact same newspaper-like style weeks ago.

Yes ! Building a news website with Claude design give me the same design, background color, text size …

Somehow, Claude seems to have developed a default nostalgic newspaper aesthetic despite being so young.

Re: Hacker News front page as a site

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Post by ymolodtsov » Tue, May 26, 2026, 9:43 AM UTC

Building a Hacker News client has long been a rite of passage because the read-only API is freely available, cool to see more experiments like this.

I believe at this point pretty much half of the users might have their own client :)