Unofficial alternative UI of hackernews

You know, you could probably harvest quite a number of passwords by adding a small 'login' link to the top right corner of the page

It looks a bit odd for me in Firefox. I'm assuming the comments/points totals were supposed to line up...<p><a href="http://imgur.com/RLkXX?full" rel="nofollow">http://imgur.com/RLkXX?full</a>

Hoped this would be for the comments page -- would love one that didn't reorder the comments as they are rated.<p>I find it desperately hard to find what's new when revisiting a comment thread, unless I've posted in it and can go in via "threads".

Overall, I dislike it. On the plus side there are more stories to scroll through and the hover effect is nice. But I don't think that makes up for the font. Plus, when you scroll down there's no way to tell which column is comments and which is points.

Sorting by date is a great idea, easier to keep up with than a list that randomly reorders every few minutes because of changing point values.

Awesome! You fixed the HN frontpage for me. This has exactly what I was missing.

I really like your site. I want to completely switch to your site. But..<p>1. Some stories are Missing: For example, <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1787019" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1787019</a> ("When Intel’s Hyper Threading goes bad") was posted on Oct 13, 2010. But it is missing your list.<p>2. How often do you update #Points &#38; #Comments? I mean if I just post a comment or upvote any OLD story on news.combinator.com &#38; then if I browse back to that day on your site. Its not showing the updated values. I guess you are storing the stories but not updating them. What is your criterion for updating the #Points &#38; #Comments?<p>3. What is your criterion for "top" in top 10, 20, 50%? Its definitely not points.<p>PS: How are you getting the stories from news.ycombinator.com? Scraping or do they offer some JSON API?

I do not like this design at all. It is simply not personal taste, yet I must applaud you for taking the time and energy to do that.<p>HN with new look is something I think of at least once a day during one of at least 15 visits to the site.

Author here. Part of the reason I built this is so that I could skip a day or two, and still come back and see what was posted. Unfortunately, that means finding this thread 11 hours after it was posted. I'll respond to the comments.

This isn't exactly news. There is a page that include several HN related services here : <a href="http://resourcey.com/site_details/2/news.ycombinator.com/" rel="nofollow">http://resourcey.com/site_details/2/news.ycombinator.com/</a>

This is where I actually think Digg is better than HN and Reddit. Their content and community may not be nearly as good, but at least they ATTEMPT to improve their UI and general functionality. Soon I have been on HN for a year, and I do not think I have noticed a single change to the site.<p>I know that interface is not everything and that once you get used to this simple one, you really get to like it, but I would just expect that a tech site, where 1/4 of the articles are about design, would try to push itself a bit more.

Looks nice overall. But Caslon is a bit blurry and hard to read at less than 18px on Windows with Cleartype enabled. I'd either switch to Georgia or bump up the size.

Apparently there's another one on <a href="http://hckrn.ws/" rel="nofollow">http://hckrn.ws/</a> . What's with the HN redesigns?

I knew that the shapes in the orange boxes on the left were probably letters and numbers, but I honestly could not tell which ones they were (especially just looking at the top one, which for me right now is "6am"). I ended up copying and pasting the text into my address bar to read it. I'd suggest a different font. (I'm on Win7/Chrome Beta).

I like big fonts like in <a href="http://www.hackerblogs.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.hackerblogs.com</a>

The very first thing I tried to do was click on the words "comments" and "points" to sort the entries by that column.<p>Placing those columns on the left-hand side gives them the highest importance. Is that the intention of this UI?

Well done on taking your time out to do this. Congrats on launching.<p>I find this one far less scannable. I see what you tried to do but it needs a bit more refinement.

Great idea but the UI needs some work... Everything blends together. What I'd love is notifications when a comment receives a reply. Sign me up for that!

I like it, but can we get a font with slightly less fiddly tiny details? They don’t work so well on a low-resolution computer display.

A better exercise would be to redesign HN in HTML5. Instead of font tags and tables it needs an urgent injection of CSS.

I don't think this is a good idea. As a somewhat loose comparison I wouldn't make a newyrktimes.com with an alternative layout either. There must be endless other ways of spending one's spare time, e.g. by making something you can charge for. I know this sounds harsh and I don't mean to rip on the author personally, but in general I think there are too many derivative-of-derivative services out there.

I like this. I wonder if there is a way to have a left nav like this and then a right column for comments.

Please add alternate row colors! I find it difficult to read a list of links on plain white background.

One other trick with this site that's not listed on the about page: click on the title to refresh.

In safari 5 the layout blows up (slightly) if you resize the text (it was too small for me).

Excellent! Instantly bookmarked!

i must be in the complete minority here, but that is one of the nicest designs and layouts i've ever seen<p>looks great on chromium full screen<p>has the designer done any other work? any other samples?

Could you implement sorting by points or by comments with jquery?

I tought about this yesterday! Thank you!!

Well I like the original better I guess (nice to see a different design take though... I ain't hatin'). Guessing your alt. design would look cool in an ipad though.