Hacker News front page as a site

thatxliner 191 points 62 comments May 25, 2026
thefrontpage.dev · View on Hacker News

Discussion Highlights (20 comments)

delichon

Now do clay tablets.

galsapir

hey that's pretty cool. I think I still prefer "distill HN" cleanliness though. What made you create this.

wanoir

Would be cool to see different column layouts too!

ammar_x

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

anonu

i love it. would be cool to get the date lookbacks too - like this https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2026-05-22

SilentM68

Nice design, but I can't afford the $3.50 price of the cup of coffee, atm (◡︵◡)(◠‿◠)

sublinear

This page now contains itself.

chrisgen19

I like the concept, the grid and the design. but the small text description is hurting my eyes.

smartial_arts

Previews are v slow to load for some reason

himata4113

this is now my new default for hackernews.

clacker-o-matic

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

namrog84

Is it just me or is there something slightly weird about scrolling? Maybe font or color. Im on mobile.

insin

Nice try at trying to get me to read the friendly articles ;)

revv00

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

BeetleB

Why is the text one long paragraph? Makes it very hard to read?

bijowo1676

looks lovely, but can you borrow text styling and typography from a modern media website like NYT WaPo or some other major news outlet? This would make it easier to read

oefrha

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).

fumeux_fume

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

almyk

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

hspeiser

The inception effect here is hilarious. Watching this get its own front page while the subtitle lags behind with the previous top posts is weirdly funny.

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