YHK - yet another hacker news clone

Show HN: Hacker Times, a New York Times-Inspired Version Hacker News

65 points polpenn 1 hour ago 21 comments

I thought it would be fun to browse HN as if it were a newspaper. The site updates once an hour. Enjoy!

havik772 1 hour ago | parent

This reminds me of an idea I had a while ago; it would be nice if I could receive a paper daily/weekly of interesting articles, updates in the world, think pieces, etc. that weren't as broad as daily news or as opinionated. Just things that people found interesting or things happening around us without the political bias (on either side).

The paper side would just be to anti-digitize my life more, feels like it would be almost like a paper RSS feed.

y-curious 1 hour ago | parent

Not exactly what you’re asking for, but a big fan of Hacker Newsletter, which emails you top HN articles. What you’re asking for is a little utopian, HN is the closest thing I’ve found

logicallee 1 hour ago | parent

>Hacker Newsletter, which emails you top HN articles.

have you read it recently? Is it still the authentic articles? (as opposed to ads for whatever you were browsing a few minutes earlier.)

vunderba 1 hour ago | parent

It wasn't physical, but there was a slick app for the 1st gen of iPad called Early Edition which was basically just curated RSS feeds presented in the style of a newspaper. I was only able to find one image of it. I don't think the app exists anymore, unfortunately.

https://imgur.com/a/5sw6zOP

Arubis 51 minutes ago | parent

Early versions of Instapaper had a nice way to push out a Kindle "magazine" with recently-captured articles that I loved. This was circa...2010, 2011? An age long past.

If you can track down some decent sources that you like (maybe something like Kagi News, https://www.positive.news/, a good local paper if you have one), you could with little effort vibe up a daily printout and have it waiting for you when you get up each day. For a fun version, there's plenty of cheap thermal printers on aliexpress and similar that'd give you a non-US Letter/A4 version so it doesn't feel like Yet Another Document.

oidar 1 hour ago | parent

add an AI section that is filtered out of technology and you'd have yourself a nice way to browse HN.

latchkey 56 minutes ago | parent

i'm pretty happy with the existing way of browsing HN. i hope it never changes.

thrdbndndn 1 hour ago | parent

Just for your information, if you care about the reachability of your project: this site, like all ChatGPT sites, is blocked in countries that are banned by ChatGPT (e.g., Hong Kong). And because it uses a custom domain, it cannot be automatically proxied as I have set up for ChatGPT domains, which is slightly annoying.

neom 6 minutes ago | parent

Guess I missed ChatGPT sites, I presume it's exactly what I envision, you can make an accessible website with ChatGPT? If so, how do you know this is one?

muglug 56 minutes ago | parent

Needs a better title font for headlines.

Georgia Bold is not fit for the purpose, and there's no earthly reason to use it at 55px.

There are so many good serif fonts to choose from on Google Fonts. An embarrassment of riches.

thingfyi 54 minutes ago | parent

This is so cool! Definitely liked the title font :)

I do wonder if this kind of republishing is compliant with the original site? As in, if one can store the content vs. not and just lazily convert live - have been curious about the copyright rules & practices in this area.

Shadowmist 51 minutes ago | parent

Archive link?

vektormemory 48 minutes ago | parent

I'm liking all of the remixes.

We built a combined books/video version as well in our app library.

https://medium.com/@vektormemory/vektor-2-0-4-hacker-news-bo...

codazoda 39 minutes ago | parent

I don’t think the pay wall is working.

me_vinayakakv 13 minutes ago | parent

I was about to type this exactly!!

duckkg5 36 minutes ago | parent

This is great! Very readable and feels like a nice way to browse articles. I tend to gloss over stuff in the HN wall of text sometimes so this breaks the links up in a useful way. Nice job.

vanjajaja1 34 minutes ago | parent

i'm open to the idea that its the NYTimes that needs a HN inspired version

dotcoma 23 minutes ago | parent

What about the ads, the tracking, the pop-ups and the limited-time special offers?

sweaterkokuro 19 minutes ago | parent

Love this.

DrewADesign 16 minutes ago | parent

At least on mobile, the format is much more reminiscent of slashdot.

Man, what a tragic waste of a great .com era community. The whole community self-moderation thing worked ok before the more worthwhile people left. Now they can’t even be arsed to pop by once an hour to remove the multi-page swastika ascii art comments.

aurareturn 8 minutes ago | parent

HN reminds me a lot of Instagram.

People complain about AI generated content, then proceeds to give a dancing cat AI reel 1 million likes.

People here complain about vibe coded apps, then proceed to upvote this to the front page.