Hacker News front page as a site
thatxliner
191 points
62 comments
May 25, 2026
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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.