My feedback is that a "front page photo" is a very high bar and most of the images fall well below what deserves the space. I would avoid:
- boilerplate page previews for e.g. github
- generic site logos e.g. arxiv, aide
- stock images and ai equivalents e.g. the models in suits stuff
- "decorative" images e.g. prime number
- author photos
- hate autoplaying gifs in this context. Very distracting. They might be great content better "play on demand" for me
Images work better when it's a relevant and a unique visual e.g. the gladiators for the history article or the cockroach but they are still are not really front-page material.
To truly earn their place, an image has to add information above and beyond the text. Identifying when an article is actually about an image e.g. space photo, data visualisation etc. would add some real value to the presentation.
I made this to experiment with embeddings and explore how different ways of displaying information affect your perception.
It gets the top 100 stories, sends their html to GPT-4 to extract the main content (this was not producing good enough results with html parsing) and then gets an embedding using the title and content.
Likes/dislikes are stored in local storage and compared against all stories using cosine similarity to find the most relevant stories.
It costs about $10/day to run. I was thinking of offering additional value for a small subscription. Maybe more pages of the newspaper, full story content/comments, a weekly digest or ePub export or something?
I think some of the highest value from HN comes from the comments, and it's much harder to find the "best" ones, since they might be in threads you might not have otherwise read.
Not sure if it's a "premium feature" so to speak, but would be very cool to extend this to comments generally.
> Likes/dislikes are stored in local storage and compared against all stories using cosine similarity to find the most relevant stories.
You're referring to using the embeddings for cosine similarity?
I am doing something similar with stocks. Taking several decades worth of 10-Q statements for a majority of stocks and weighted ETF holdings and using an autoencoder to generate embeddings that I run cosine and euclidean algorithms on via Rust WASM.
Nice – I like this a lot. I feel like I'd use this for slow-lane reading and the original HN site when I'm in a rush.
Regarding HTML to GPT-4, I seem to remember commenters here saying they got better results by converting the HTML to Markdown first, then sending to an LLM. Might save a bit of money too.
This doesn't look like a print newspaper. Print newspapers are much denser (in general) and have different headline sizes to emphasize the editor's choice of stories. This looks like a corporate blog home page or something. Some people will like this presentation; I'm pretty happy with HN as it is. But congratulations on shipping!
I kept it running for 5 or 10 years but eventually let it die.
edit: I'm not hating on OP btw. their version has pics, which mine doesn't. just agreeing that I believe the visual hierarchy inherent to newspaper title design is an important benefit of the format.
I’ve been running https://dailypopulous.com/ for years which is basically this but for general news. It generates a static paper edition every 6 hours from the most popular news links on social media with archives of all previous editions available.
Thanks for the feedback! Print newspaper's have curation, which this lacks. I guess the main thing it takes from newspapers is the image and blurb that help give you a preview of the story.
Good point. Of course Helen Keller wouldn’t have been able to use this if she were alive today… Or could she have? Have you ever considered that Helen Keller was faking it all along? I mean think about it how can you read and write if you are deaf and blind??
A few years ago, a similar project was posted on HN that I thought was really cool too - E Ink smart screen puts a newspaper on your wall (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22831323).
As the son of two journalists (one was an editor) news-editing and layout is a lot more than just using serif and playing with typography a bit
The closest thing I’ve found to something actually resembling a proper masthead’s layout would actually be this from HN a few months ago:
https://cybernetic.dev/grid
Balancing high information density and readability is the key to a proper layout. You’ve erred to far on minimalist “readability”
I’d suggest looking at older Indesign/Quark Express magazines if you want to see elements of publishing layouts done digitally
There’s going to be a great layout one day that fuses the news-editing with web, but this isn’t it
I'd seen that when first loading the site shortly after the story was posted. Some 12 hours later or so, content is loading as expected. No network adjustments made on my end; I suspect the site operator changed their configuration(s).
This is pretty cool, it’s nice to have a clean interface that puts more focus on individual posts (as articles here) rather than tons of headlines where I feel I skim over posts a lot more (particularly the post about Jupiter only caught my attention on your site, not the front page).
I’d like if there was some support for customising it without liking and disliking so I could push topics I’m interested in first (e.g. those tagged with emacs). It would also be nice to hide the like and dislike buttons in general as it gives more of a social media feel that the newspaper style UI does well to shake.
Interesting, for me it's a bit the opposite. In the standard view I really read every headline and consider what might be through the click. In this version I skim more in mindless scrolling fashion.
Hey HN,
I'm building a payment solution that lets customers buy directly from social media without leaving platforms like Instagram, Facebook, etc. So why do we all need this? There are millions of small and medium businesses and brands that can't establish an online presence, and most of them regularly use social media to post about their products.
I want to help these businesses. Instagram and Facebook have shopping features, but only for a few brands, and they are not available in many regions like India. India has the world's second most active social media users and millions of businesses trying to acquire customers using social media. I want users and buyers to be able to shop directly from posts without leaving the app. I want my payment model on these platforms to create more convenience for customers and reduce business costs.
So, if someone who has worked at Facebook, Instagram, or any other company has valuable advice for me, please share.
This is very nice! If you
- make it a pwa/web clip
- link to the discussions
- make the images colored again
I’d use it over the regular hacker news ui any day. I know your use case is printing it out, but it’s fantastic for usage on a tablet.
I've added an option to change images to color or remove them. You can view the comments by clicking 'SEE COMMENTS' at the end of the blurb. I'll look into making it into a PWA.
I guess you mean a digital newspaper with a layout inspired by print newspapers. It's definitely not a print newspaper, I know because I tried folding it in half to read on the train, and all that happened was my laptop screen broke.
There was an iOS app from practically a decade ago that did something very similar, but you could customize with RSS feeds, and it would turn it into a traditional looking newspaper.
Sadly, I can't remember the name of it but it was pretty great.
EDIT: Well maybe not, this one seems more like a replacement for ReadLater/GetPocket whereas the one I used was purely based off RSS feeds. I used it on the original iPad 1st gen so it's probably long gone. I give up.
A fun evolution would be to format it into a newspaper format, complete with headlines, front page, and "continue reading on page N", then print it out on large paper, fold it, and mail it to you.
There's probably no money in it, but a physical weekly customized RSS feed highlights newspaper would be neat.
I liked this for two seconds; then all the pictures loaded in the browser window, and its usefulness to me plummeted. Similar to other commenters, I actually prefer text-only in this context; in particular, the first picture displayed just now was animated, and incredibly distracting.
I would probably use this or at least play with it extensively if not for this "feature." I find that, unlike "real" newspapers, leading images in blog posts and even much larger sites are frequently a net negative (a trend greatly worsened with the advent of AI image generators).
i just had a silly idea. around 100 years ago there used to be these devices you'd put a scroll in and it would scroll it[0]. the use i saw for it was maps, in cars. you'd insert like interstate 10 scroll #N for whatever section you were on, and as you passed mile markers or exits you'd scroll it. i hope this explains it.
So the idea is to replicate that and use receipt paper, and thermal or what, dot matrix print onto the roll of paper your tweet stream. then you get something like those plastic M&M bottles, pill bottle, 35mm film bottle (boy i am full of ancient tech ideas)...
if you make some 3d printed cheap compliant mechanism[1] that snaps together and everything fits in a small tin or box...
There’s a lot of negative commentary here, but this is the first HN alternative I’ve bookmarked. Yes lots could be improved, but I think the concept is nice! Thanks for making this!
A nice layout. For fun I attempted to actually print (to PDF) and boy was that messed up badly! Guessing that's not the type of "print" you had in mind. :)
go into the print settings for pdf and set the margins to "none" - that fixed it here. but my workflow was singlefile extension to save as a single html file, then i opened that in another browser and used that to print to pdf - just to make sure i wasn't doing a "but it worked at my house" sort of claim!
I'm getting the an error of "Failed to fetch stories"
The console error is:
(index):464 Error loading stories: TypeError: Failed to construct 'URL': Invalid URL
at (index):482:36
at Array.forEach (<anonymous>)
at NewspaperApp.displayStories ((index):471:25)
at NewspaperApp.loadStories ((index):461:26)
at async NewspaperApp.initialize ((index):418:17)
Can anyone help? I really want to use this product it seems great.
Pretty cool. Like how the animated GIFs will play and the type and whitespace balance is pretty solid. Ever seen Paper-HN? A similar idea: https://www.wolfgangfaust.com/project/paper-hn/ - A fun detail that one has is when you mouseover their photos they go to colour.
This is the first time in a while I've experienced someone else making a design I have been thinking off, have it even somewhere in my ideas list, newspaper but a more "brutalism" design. I love this, great job!
A really cool project and I like the layout a lot. There a a few things that would be nice to be able to customize, like heading sizes and font, but on the whole this is great work.
If it's a "print" do not add changing images. Now we have on first slot "Passport Photos" story with plinking photos, which makes me wanna click X ASAP...
This is likely down to a simple oversight when loading images from articles. OP probably didn't consider GIF images. I don't think its a choice that was made to add animated images. @OP - you can use Cloudinary to transform images on the fly (also stops you using other sites resources) to fix this issue easily.
This is excellent! I've been using it all day. I do wish it was a bit denser (similar to Drudge Report), but the product is neat enough as is. Congrats!
The print stylesheets are also kind of broken. With my printer's default margins, the page becomes an overlapping mess: https://i.imgur.com/lTlFz4l.png
It's reminiscent in some ways of Slashdot of yore, which would include a slug describing the submission. One of my more persistent issues with HN is that the 80-character-limit title gives parlous thin information on whether or not a submission is worth reading. Additional microcontent, even just another 120-240 characters (10--20 words or so) often helps greatly, and your project demonstrates this.
Auto-selecting slugs is of course itself somewhat fraught, one example on the front page of YourHackerNews as I write has a slug beginning "This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks. The action you just performed triggered the security solution...", which is probably not what you'd prefer: <https://www.tokyodev.com/articles/the-english-paradox-four-d...>.
I'm not a fan of animations as noted in another comment. The "Passport Photos" story has a hero image which animates: <https://maxsiedentopf.com/passport-photos/>. One option would be to permit removing an item entirely from the layout. Hitting "X" on a story does not presently do this. HN itself has "hide" feature accomplishing this.
In general, I would strongly caution against auto-including images from sites, particularly as those can be pathways to future abuse, including the appropriation of the image-hosting site by unsavoury content. I'd run across an example from an earlier HN submission a few months ago, of the ever-more-aptly named "ShadyURL": <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41002786>.
On layout: Traditional print newspapers aren't merely an assortment of articles, or a ranked placement of articles, but an edited presentation of them. There's usually a top story, of course, but gathered around those will be stories related to the primary feature. See a recent archive of the (online) NY Times homepage for an example: <https://archive.is/HO7xW>.
Layouts are also grouped by topical sections. Again the Times demonstrates this (top news, analysis, opinion, "the great read", "the athletic", "culture and lifestyle", etc. The Guardian similarly, with several news blocks for top news, "headlines", "in focus", "spotlight", "opinion", "sports", "climate crisis", etc.
HN's news breakdown differs, though looking at the submitted sites, title, and in your case the slug should give some options for largely-automated story placement. I've done my own analysis of HN front-pages, and came up with a list of 47 categories of sites with > 17 front-page appearances (and a great many more without), totaling 16,185 classified sites.
Categories: programming (7719), blog (5506), media (816), science (635), news (344), comm. (227), government (129), software (127), video (78), discussion (73), interest (72), design (60), database (57), cryptocurrency (49), law (41), cybersecurity (25), technology (25), commentary (24), recreation (23), hardware (22), medicine (15), documents (14), military (10), literature (9), economics (8), publications (8), list (7), crowdfunding (6), education (6), webcomic (6), (wiki) (5), books (5), info (5), entertainment (4), environment (4), journalism (4), organisations (3), support (3), information (2), translation (2), humour (1), images (1), n/a (1), networking (1), podcast (1), society (1), ui/ux (1).
(I can provide the classification file on request, username at protomail.com.)
That provides pretty comprehensive coverage of the actual stories submitted (I'd had the exact factor once, I believe it's in excess of 90%).
Again: parsing of the titles and/or slugs (perhaps with an AI assist?) could give better classification. Sites such as Lobsters (<https://lobste.rs>) include tags and often have similar submission selections to HN, which might also be used to organise placement.
Another characteristic of traditional layouts is that the horizontal line is reset periodically. If you look at the NYTimes, Guardian, or other traditional news sites you'll find frequent use of horizontal breaks. I don't know if this is a peculiarity of mine or not, but I find that card-style summaries which are not randomly aligned vertically on a page are much easier to read.
Slugs are chosen using AI, but it doesn't work too well, as you mentioned. I will work on iterating the prompt to try and get better results.
A 'remove' option would be a good addition. It would directly remove the element, and not track it as a 'disliked' story.
Since this whole thing is automated, and there's no curation involved beyond embeddings and HN points, it's hard to display it like a traditional newspaper, with proper vertical alignment (since images and blurbs are manually entered to fill the content there).
I think grouping the newspaper into categories is a great idea. I don't think it works with the daily frontpage, since there isn't enough content (just 30 stories on the front page), but it would work quite well in a monthly version. Your categories are very helpful and I will email you about them.
Fluorescence|1 year ago
My feedback is that a "front page photo" is a very high bar and most of the images fall well below what deserves the space. I would avoid:
Images work better when it's a relevant and a unique visual e.g. the gladiators for the history article or the cockroach but they are still are not really front-page material.To truly earn their place, an image has to add information above and beyond the text. Identifying when an article is actually about an image e.g. space photo, data visualisation etc. would add some real value to the presentation.
sebastiansm|1 year ago
jawilson2|1 year ago
nimbusega|1 year ago
It gets the top 100 stories, sends their html to GPT-4 to extract the main content (this was not producing good enough results with html parsing) and then gets an embedding using the title and content.
Likes/dislikes are stored in local storage and compared against all stories using cosine similarity to find the most relevant stories.
It costs about $10/day to run. I was thinking of offering additional value for a small subscription. Maybe more pages of the newspaper, full story content/comments, a weekly digest or ePub export or something?
ketzo|1 year ago
Not sure if it's a "premium feature" so to speak, but would be very cool to extend this to comments generally.
gsky|1 year ago
It should not cost more than a dollar a day.
Take AWS and azure credits and run it for free for years
jzombie|1 year ago
You're referring to using the embeddings for cosine similarity?
I am doing something similar with stocks. Taking several decades worth of 10-Q statements for a majority of stocks and weighted ETF holdings and using an autoencoder to generate embeddings that I run cosine and euclidean algorithms on via Rust WASM.
tagawa|1 year ago
Regarding HTML to GPT-4, I seem to remember commenters here saying they got better results by converting the HTML to Markdown first, then sending to an LLM. Might save a bit of money too.
jgrahamc|1 year ago
tessierashpool|1 year ago
https://github.com/gilesbowkett/hacker_newspaper/blob/master...
I kept it running for 5 or 10 years but eventually let it die.
edit: I'm not hating on OP btw. their version has pics, which mine doesn't. just agreeing that I believe the visual hierarchy inherent to newspaper title design is an important benefit of the format.
SoftTalker|1 year ago
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yaj54|1 year ago
I've wanted to take a stab at it because I think it would be "neat" but haven't actually found any good reference implementations.
also seems like with almost everyone on mobile it's just not worth it.
MichaelZuo|1 year ago
hk-hater420|1 year ago
pncnmnp|1 year ago
A few years ago, a similar project was posted on HN that I thought was really cool too - E Ink smart screen puts a newspaper on your wall (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22831323).
mahin|1 year ago
lmpdev|1 year ago
The closest thing I’ve found to something actually resembling a proper masthead’s layout would actually be this from HN a few months ago: https://cybernetic.dev/grid
Balancing high information density and readability is the key to a proper layout. You’ve erred to far on minimalist “readability”
I’d suggest looking at older Indesign/Quark Express magazines if you want to see elements of publishing layouts done digitally
There’s going to be a great layout one day that fuses the news-editing with web, but this isn’t it
All4All|1 year ago
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fdphoughton|1 year ago
I’d like if there was some support for customising it without liking and disliking so I could push topics I’m interested in first (e.g. those tagged with emacs). It would also be nice to hide the like and dislike buttons in general as it gives more of a social media feel that the newspaper style UI does well to shake.
stevage|1 year ago
mahin|1 year ago
djaygour|1 year ago
I want to help these businesses. Instagram and Facebook have shopping features, but only for a few brands, and they are not available in many regions like India. India has the world's second most active social media users and millions of businesses trying to acquire customers using social media. I want users and buyers to be able to shop directly from posts without leaving the app. I want my payment model on these platforms to create more convenience for customers and reduce business costs.
So, if someone who has worked at Facebook, Instagram, or any other company has valuable advice for me, please share.
How can I make this happen?
Will these platforms allow me to?
Thank you
mahin|1 year ago
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/hn-explorer/amiaaon...
DeathArrow|1 year ago
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vunderba|1 year ago
Sadly, I can't remember the name of it but it was pretty great.
headclone|1 year ago
It was the peak of RSS for me, beautiful UX, customizable, all the posts in sequential order if I wanted instead of algorithms…
I remember it because useless when web publishers realized they were losing ad views to apps like these and all the posts became previews with links.
vunderba|1 year ago
Found it - it was Instapaper!
https://imgur.com/a/iFBme4f
EDIT: Well maybe not, this one seems more like a replacement for ReadLater/GetPocket whereas the one I used was purely based off RSS feeds. I used it on the original iPad 1st gen so it's probably long gone. I give up.
otras|1 year ago
There's probably no money in it, but a physical weekly customized RSS feed highlights newspaper would be neat.
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eigenhombre|1 year ago
I would probably use this or at least play with it extensively if not for this "feature." I find that, unlike "real" newspapers, leading images in blog posts and even much larger sites are frequently a net negative (a trend greatly worsened with the advent of AI image generators).
nimbusega|1 year ago
paddy_m|1 year ago
I'm thinking specifically of DieWorkwear on twitter, but others too.
genewitch|1 year ago
So the idea is to replicate that and use receipt paper, and thermal or what, dot matrix print onto the roll of paper your tweet stream. then you get something like those plastic M&M bottles, pill bottle, 35mm film bottle (boy i am full of ancient tech ideas)...
if you make some 3d printed cheap compliant mechanism[1] that snaps together and everything fits in a small tin or box...
[0] https://gajitz.com/paper-trails-auto-scrolling-1930s-in-car-... et https://i.imgur.com/WpyOGkI.jpeg (two separate links)
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compliant_mechanism
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SamCoding|1 year ago
The console error is: (index):464 Error loading stories: TypeError: Failed to construct 'URL': Invalid URL at (index):482:36 at Array.forEach (<anonymous>) at NewspaperApp.displayStories ((index):471:25) at NewspaperApp.loadStories ((index):461:26) at async NewspaperApp.initialize ((index):418:17)
Can anyone help? I really want to use this product it seems great.
SamCoding|1 year ago
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AriyanWasi|1 year ago
You could maybe just redirect to the comment page?
mahin|1 year ago
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nightpool|1 year ago
https://i.imgur.com/5bbKiFc.png
nightpool|1 year ago
And even with margins turned off, stories are split "across" pages in a way that makes them useless for printing: https://i.imgur.com/SvmTGa8.png Need to pay more attention to your "break-inside" properties: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/break-insid... (and switch from using JS-generated absolute styles to using a CSS column layout or masonry grid)
nimbusega|1 year ago
catalypso|1 year ago
I now almost exclusively get my HN feed through a simple script I wrote to get desc sorted posts by score or trend (score/time): https://github.com/faroukfaiz10/hackernews-homepage
The result looks something like this ({score/time} - {score} - {link} - {comments link}):
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This post is not even on it.
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[1] https://hackernews-semafor-duhw.vercel.app/
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It's reminiscent in some ways of Slashdot of yore, which would include a slug describing the submission. One of my more persistent issues with HN is that the 80-character-limit title gives parlous thin information on whether or not a submission is worth reading. Additional microcontent, even just another 120-240 characters (10--20 words or so) often helps greatly, and your project demonstrates this.
Auto-selecting slugs is of course itself somewhat fraught, one example on the front page of YourHackerNews as I write has a slug beginning "This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks. The action you just performed triggered the security solution...", which is probably not what you'd prefer: <https://www.tokyodev.com/articles/the-english-paradox-four-d...>.
I'm not a fan of animations as noted in another comment. The "Passport Photos" story has a hero image which animates: <https://maxsiedentopf.com/passport-photos/>. One option would be to permit removing an item entirely from the layout. Hitting "X" on a story does not presently do this. HN itself has "hide" feature accomplishing this.
In general, I would strongly caution against auto-including images from sites, particularly as those can be pathways to future abuse, including the appropriation of the image-hosting site by unsavoury content. I'd run across an example from an earlier HN submission a few months ago, of the ever-more-aptly named "ShadyURL": <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41002786>.
On layout: Traditional print newspapers aren't merely an assortment of articles, or a ranked placement of articles, but an edited presentation of them. There's usually a top story, of course, but gathered around those will be stories related to the primary feature. See a recent archive of the (online) NY Times homepage for an example: <https://archive.is/HO7xW>.
Layouts are also grouped by topical sections. Again the Times demonstrates this (top news, analysis, opinion, "the great read", "the athletic", "culture and lifestyle", etc. The Guardian similarly, with several news blocks for top news, "headlines", "in focus", "spotlight", "opinion", "sports", "climate crisis", etc.
HN's news breakdown differs, though looking at the submitted sites, title, and in your case the slug should give some options for largely-automated story placement. I've done my own analysis of HN front-pages, and came up with a list of 47 categories of sites with > 17 front-page appearances (and a great many more without), totaling 16,185 classified sites.
Categories: programming (7719), blog (5506), media (816), science (635), news (344), comm. (227), government (129), software (127), video (78), discussion (73), interest (72), design (60), database (57), cryptocurrency (49), law (41), cybersecurity (25), technology (25), commentary (24), recreation (23), hardware (22), medicine (15), documents (14), military (10), literature (9), economics (8), publications (8), list (7), crowdfunding (6), education (6), webcomic (6), (wiki) (5), books (5), info (5), entertainment (4), environment (4), journalism (4), organisations (3), support (3), information (2), translation (2), humour (1), images (1), n/a (1), networking (1), podcast (1), society (1), ui/ux (1).
(I can provide the classification file on request, username at protomail.com.)
That provides pretty comprehensive coverage of the actual stories submitted (I'd had the exact factor once, I believe it's in excess of 90%).
Again: parsing of the titles and/or slugs (perhaps with an AI assist?) could give better classification. Sites such as Lobsters (<https://lobste.rs>) include tags and often have similar submission selections to HN, which might also be used to organise placement.
Another characteristic of traditional layouts is that the horizontal line is reset periodically. If you look at the NYTimes, Guardian, or other traditional news sites you'll find frequent use of horizontal breaks. I don't know if this is a peculiarity of mine or not, but I find that card-style summaries which are not randomly aligned vertically on a page are much easier to read.
mahin|1 year ago
Slugs are chosen using AI, but it doesn't work too well, as you mentioned. I will work on iterating the prompt to try and get better results.
A 'remove' option would be a good addition. It would directly remove the element, and not track it as a 'disliked' story.
Since this whole thing is automated, and there's no curation involved beyond embeddings and HN points, it's hard to display it like a traditional newspaper, with proper vertical alignment (since images and blurbs are manually entered to fill the content there).
I think grouping the newspaper into categories is a great idea. I don't think it works with the daily frontpage, since there isn't enough content (just 30 stories on the front page), but it would work quite well in a monthly version. Your categories are very helpful and I will email you about them.