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).
I agree, but I think it's that small because otherwise, the justified text results in ridiculous spacing.
OP, consider reducing the number of columns from 4 to 3 (at least below very wide viewports), increasing the font size, and then also allowing hyphenation. I think the last will help a lot with the justification problem.
Some of them are really large and I'm not resizing them or storing them, just proxying their og image directly. So they might be taking long to respond from the original source. Also getting hammerred by being in the front page.
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).
It could probably be helped a bit by enabling auto hyphenation, but ultimately browsers aren't optimized for typesetting narrow columns of text
Made it 3, try again perhaps. Changing to text-align: left really destroys the aesthetic though.
Cool, but body font size is too small for comfortable reading!
OP, I love the font size as is, have multiple options if you're going to change things! Remember the users that loved things as they were!
I did increase it in the meanwhile from when that comment was posted.
I agree, but I think it's that small because otherwise, the justified text results in ridiculous spacing.
OP, consider reducing the number of columns from 4 to 3 (at least below very wide viewports), increasing the font size, and then also allowing hyphenation. I think the last will help a lot with the justification problem.
Or have a button that makes the text left-aligned for easier reading.
I think that very much defeats the point of making it look like a newspaper.
Which might be fine? Since web pages are not newspaper sites one might say its just not the ideal way of presenting information.
This entire submission is styled to look like a newspaper. If you just want information go to news.ycombinator.com.
Sounds like an authentic HN experience to me!
An overridden `.newspaper-copy { font-size: 1rem; }` works well.
Nice! Happy to see the site appearing as itself on the front page doesn't cause some crazy recursive crash :)
Nice design, gives a cozy feeling similar to reading a newspaper
I like the concept, the grid and the design. but the small text description is hurting my eyes.
Just made it a bit bigger.
Cool, seems need some deduplication. Maybe when you turn to the new page, some items fall back.
It is possible. Will look into it.
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
Why is the text one long paragraph? Makes it very hard to read?
Because I'm telling the AI "summarize it to one paragraph".
Nice try at trying to get me to read the friendly articles ;)
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
Tricks of the trade :)
i love it. would be cool to get the date lookbacks too - like this https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2026-05-22
Previews are v slow to load for some reason
Some of them are really large and I'm not resizing them or storing them, just proxying their og image directly. So they might be taking long to respond from the original source. Also getting hammerred by being in the front page.
Would be cool to see different column layouts too!
Yea -- it could use votes to pick a hero article, or change summary length.
hey that's pretty cool. I think I still prefer "distill HN" cleanliness though. What made you create this.
I didn’t make this lol; just something cool I’ve found
Is it just me or is there something slightly weird about scrolling? Maybe font or color. Im on mobile.
This page now contains itself.
Nice design, but I can't afford the $3.50 price of the cup of coffee, atm (◡︵◡)(◠‿◠)
this is now my new default for hackernews.
Now do clay tablets.