Hello HN, this is a small side project I worked on that restyles HackerNews to look like the desktop of an older version of MacOS from the 90s.<p>Internally, this is just a proxy to news.ycombinator.com that injects a custom `news.css` style sheet on some routes (login routes redirect back to HN). If you want to use the style sheet on the client side, there are browser extensions and a custom style sheet available at the github repo [0].<p>[0] <a href="https://github.com/anthmn/hackertosh.css" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/anthmn/hackertosh.css</a><p>edit: try <a href="https://hackertosh.org/news" rel="nofollow">https://hackertosh.org/news</a> if the page is blank
Neat! Will go very nicely with one of my desktop environment containers, which is inspired on Platinum as well: <a href="https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2022/04/12/2330" rel="nofollow">https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2022/04/12/2330</a>
Fun!<p>One small immersion break for me was that the triangles next to comments are upvote buttons; I expected them to toggle the threads open and closed (even though they're pointing upwards - a toggle would point to the right in the open state). I'm not sure what an idiomatic upvote button would look like. A checkbox?
Has a small bug with Android Firefox:<p><a href="https://i.ibb.co/ZRsFNQW/Screenshot-20220918-204917.png" rel="nofollow">https://i.ibb.co/ZRsFNQW/Screenshot-20220918-204917.png</a>
The font looks atrocious without enabling antialising (which I abhor). Compare the headlines text with the menu bar image at the top left of the page: <a href="https://i.imgur.com/0MDGYpn.png" rel="nofollow">https://i.imgur.com/0MDGYpn.png</a><p>Taken on Windows 7/Chrome
Love this to bits! One minor improvement is to add spacing between the user name and the "logout" text. Based on my own user name "usrme": <a href="https://imgur.com/M8PHS6g" rel="nofollow">https://imgur.com/M8PHS6g</a>
<a href="https://i.imgur.com/vhER5zX.jpg" rel="nofollow">https://i.imgur.com/vhER5zX.jpg</a> this happened on Samsung Android with the link preview browser
The opaque icon text background - I made sure that my desktop stayed clutter free and my wallpaper always matched the background color to hide the ugliness of the opaque icon text background.
I wish I could apply the current HN format to websites with dumpster fire UIs.
Zerohedge comes to mind, and perhaps even Reddit (which isn't as bad)