A newspaper-style Hacker News reader that shows articles and comments side by side. Dark mode, installable PWA, shareable story links, and a free weekly newsletter. Open-source.
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Hi, I'm Terry!
I wanted a way to read Hacker News articles and their comments without constantly switching between tabs. On the official HN site, you click a link, read it, go back, find the comments, read those, go back again.
So I built Hacker News Times. You click a story, and the article loads right next to the comments. No tab switching, no losing your place.
One tricky problem I ran into: a lot of popular sites (Substack, Medium, BBC) block you from embedding their pages. So I added a reader mode that fetches the article on the server and shows a clean version instead.
It's a PWA so you can install it on your phone, and there's a weekly newsletter if you want the best stories in your inbox every Tuesday.
Everything is open source: https://github.com/terryds/hacke...
Would love to hear your feedback!
Love how you've tackled the tab-switching issue. Have you considered integrating a feature that highlights new comments since a user last read the story?
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This is a nice take on Hacker News having articles and comments side by side makes it much easier to actually follow discussions curious how much people stick with this over the default HN experience
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That's a cool idea. I too thought of reading the Hacker News articles, keeping the comments beside.
You did a nice job. Congrats on the launch 🎉 All the best!
@terrydjony very cool
@thedatadavis thanks for the upvote!
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Love how you've tackled the tab-switching issue. Have you considered integrating a feature that highlights new comments since a user last read the story?
This is a nice take on Hacker News having articles and comments side by side makes it much easier to actually follow discussions curious how much people stick with this over the default HN experience
That's a cool idea. I too thought of reading the Hacker News articles, keeping the comments beside.
You did a nice job. Congrats on the launch 🎉 All the best!
@basharath thanks!
Great idea! I always thought hacker news ui is very bad for reading and switching tabs to see the website. Very neat solution.
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Upvoted! Just launched today as well.