HackRSS - browse HN posts visually

Visually appealing, but needs longer titles and link to HN comments. I usually find the comments more enjoyable to read than the source articles.

I love the recursion when it reaches the "HackRSS - browse HN posts visually" post in the feed :)<p>Any chance you could include more of the title text and the link to the comments?

A little competition for <a href="http://hn.embed.ly" rel="nofollow">http://hn.embed.ly</a>? Heh. We think rich data makes much better previews then screenshots. What does HN think about this site vs. hn.embed.ly?

This kind of UI would work well on other HN-like sites, e.g. links to pretty web designs, but the nature of HN links means the screenshots are almost all the same thing: an article, a possible image, some ads or links on the side.<p>Because of the extra space taken up by screenshots, the most important thing - link title - has to be truncated, and it's not showing vote/comment counts.<p>It's always good to experiment with UIs, but in this case, I think the experiment shows the UI is more suited to other kinds of links.

Very well done. I would like to also see this done for various news feed (maybe most popular links on Twitter/Facebook). EDIT: Happy user of URL2PNG.

I think url2png is really cool, but I was a bit pissed when from one day to the next they went to a subscription model and added sign-up links to all screenshots. Their fair right, of course, but no fun if you just started using it.

Here's a search experience for you, same idea: <a href="http://hnsearch.heroku.com/" rel="nofollow">http://hnsearch.heroku.com/</a> :)

Quite cool, but the titles shouldn't be cut.

I usually enjoy visual browsers like this, but here the previews are too small for it to click for me. Just to provide a counterexample, this one is pretty cool and along similar lines: <a href="http://news.peepcode.com/" rel="nofollow">http://news.peepcode.com/</a>

Excellent! And I love the browsing and picture in picture recursion: HackRSS -&#62; HackRSS :-)

How is this useful? I agree with bgraves, it is more of a proof-of-concept of url2png.

I worked on something similar to this a couple of months back: <a href="http://hackernewsbot.posterous.com" rel="nofollow">http://hackernewsbot.posterous.com</a>. Never finished it though.

Cool. I would love to be able to scroll through this using the j and k keys, like Google Reader or <a href="http://ffffound.com/" rel="nofollow">http://ffffound.com/</a>.

very cool. I've always wanted this.<p>and now that we have this, I realize that the end result is that I will now end up reading articles that have nice designs. i.e. judging by the cover.

I love the concept, but I'd rather have the links open in the same window. Just change your target attributes and I will switch over to this solution permanently.

Nicely done but I find the default view much easier to navigate. A JavaScript-switch between default and with pictures would be nice though.

Well, I looked. It was not obvious how to view the comments, so I probably won't ever go back. Sorry, them's the apples.

Kudos for Droste effect of HackRSS showing the HackRSS post showing HackRSS showing the HackRSS post.

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Can we have a place that lists all the HN related sites? Or maybe PG can create such a page and link it at the top/bottom. That would be useful instead of them getting lost in the old posts and people who haven't seen the posts missing them.