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Re: Hacker News front page as a site

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Post by ahmedfromtunis »

lionkor wrote: post #78
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".

I'd say that that's a feature of modern-ish newspapers with "advanced" layouting techniques from early to mid 20th century.

A news sheet from THE olden days (eg Victorian era), looks more like a wall of text, set as tightly -- an uniformly -- as possibly, which is not surprising considering the limitations imposed by the technology of the day.

As for story selection, I think the collective hivemind of hn-ers would be a worthy substitute for an editor in chief.

Re: Hacker News front page as a site

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Post by darkwater »

1e1a wrote: post #77
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?

But defaulting to article snippets ;)

Re: Hacker News front page as a site

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Post by sverhagen »

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…

I think the layout _wants_ to look like a newspaper, but just doesn't quite end up looking like one. where a newspaper may have longer columns mixed in with shorter articles, this one has mostly short articles that then don't quite align. But hey, good luck to this project!
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