Show HN: HN Deck – An alternative way to browse Hacker News

Interesting idea, but I think the comments count; "x comments" should probably be clickable as anyone from HN will instinctively click that, not the "discuss" text.

HN Deck uses Hacker News api to display all tabs in a single page. The interface is inspired from tweetdeck. Code for this app is here <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;sagunsh&#x2F;hndeck" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;sagunsh&#x2F;hndeck</a>

I&#x27;d love to be able to customize the columns. For example, I have no interest in Jobs, and I&#x27;d prefer Ask and Show to be mixed together so there are only 3 wide columns.<p>Also, I&#x27;ve noticed that Ask posts often don&#x27;t make it to the official Ask page. I&#x27;ve talked to the mods about this and understand there is a threshold, though in my experience it is not accurately applied (sometimes a newer Ask post with more points won&#x27;t show up, but an older Ask post with fewer points will). I hope you can pull the raw post data instead of just pulling from the &#x27;official&#x27; Ask (and probably also Show) pages.

In the spirit of interesting way to browse Hacker News: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;datapeek.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;datapeek.org&#x2F;</a> ( Hacker News comments backed by data )

Interesting way to browse, some suggestions<p>- some visual hierarchy would be good, right now it&#x27;s quite hard to read at a glance. Some quick CSS overrides, a bit buggy but you get the idea - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;ztmCSNQ" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;ztmCSNQ</a> - you probably don&#x27;t also need all the extra info, the headline and number of upvotes&#x2F;comments most interesting<p>- I think most of the time you&#x27;re not interested in jobs or some of the other columns, would be nice to turn them off or add other ones you are interested in (like let&#x27;s say all recent posts&#x2F;comments from users XYZ)<p>-it would be nice to have a preview of the comments without opening the post

Good work OP.<p>This reminded me of the debate we had in my previous startup when developing a News App[1] in 2015 -<p>Single article on the screen(me) vs Multiple articles as thumbnails (associate).<p>My reasoning was that our eyes are going to see one article at a time, we are going to focus on single article at a time, then why crowd the screen with useless items.<p>My associate&#x27;s argument was that we should be able see as much information as possible without scrolling.<p>Well, since I was the CEO; should I say which one did we go for?<p>[1]<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;talkabout.co.in&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;talkabout.co.in&#x2F;</a> [Abandoned long back, updating in personal capacity for android breaking changes ocassionally].

Slightly off topic, but I built a feed aggregator for reddit and HN a few weeks ago: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;readr.page&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;readr.page&#x2F;</a> (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;vibhuagrawal14&#x2F;readr.page" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;vibhuagrawal14&#x2F;readr.page</a>) I am going to borrow your interface and add ask&#x2F;show&#x2F;jobs&#x2F;new for HN feed and hot&#x2F;new&#x2F;top for reddit!

As an easy fix for the UI, I&#x27;d suggest to remove the fixed height for the cards.

Interesting, I&#x27;ve never seen Tweetdeck.<p>It would be more usable with the share links at the bottom and smaller column headings. Personally I don&#x27;t often look at the Jobs posts so having a checkbox to hide it would leave more room for other columns&#x27; text.<p>If something could be done to make the &#x27;line 2&#x27; info fit on one line would be awesome:<p><pre><code> Ask HN: How to avoid over-engineering software design for future us... 181 points by h43k3r a day ago 190 comments | discuss </code></pre> Hover text for both abbreviated titles (and line 2) is useful.<p>Btw, I also made a 2-col browser that groups by post date. Click the column headings to change view modes. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hackerer.news" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hackerer.news</a>

One simple suggestion: make the columns collapsible.<p>For example, each column can have a &quot;shrink&quot; button that, when clicked, shrinks and allocates it to the side, thereby allowing the other columns to expand into that space.<p>This way a user can just view the columns they wish to see.

Nice. Quick feedback<p>1. Trim top part to add more spaces, 2. Link the column headings to &#x2F;best, &#x2F;ask, respectively, 3. Remove &quot;Discuss&quot; and link &quot;comments&quot;, 4. Fix height (Getting double scroll in small monitors)

Here&#x27;s mine. It inlines the content from the links on hn into an RSS feed.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;damng.github.io&#x2F;hackernews-rss-with-inlined-content&#x2F;output.rss" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;damng.github.io&#x2F;hackernews-rss-with-inlined-content&#x2F;...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;damng.github.io&#x2F;hackernews-rss-with-inlined-content&#x2F;lobstre.rs.rss" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;damng.github.io&#x2F;hackernews-rss-with-inlined-content&#x2F;...</a>

Nice work and I liked the clean layout.<p>I see you are able to open the URLs directly - something the app I use seems unable to do - perhaps it’s time for me to changes apps.<p>A feature I’d enjoy is the ability to open both the story and the comments at the same time. I almost always do so manually anyway - i like comparing the (often) hyperbolic article with a does of reality&#x2F;sense in the comments. Or is it the other way around?<p>I keep trying to find the time to write something myself - perhaps in Swift or Capacitor. An HN reader seems like a good first project to learn a new language or technology.

This reminds me of a view I have wanted to create but have been too busy to think about. I would like the ability to dismiss stories (swipe away or click [x]). This would allow me to filter out things I&#x27;m done with or don&#x27;t want to engage with. Bonus points for stories coming back if their points increase passed some threshold. This would be limited to the page itself, so it would not be some infinite scroll thing pulling from page 2, 3, etc. It would just have stories from page 1.

More visibility to &#x27;new&#x27; is good news in my book.

By the time the font size is large enough to approximate the normal site, the design is back to a single column on my monitor, but with worse spacing.

Like it a lot, because:<p>a) no need for more button; b) optimized for big screens; c) open-source;

Only if HN had downvote button

While it blocks one third of the screen on mobile, what problem is this trying to solve? I feel like I am missing the point of this and miss out on something maybe good.

Well done. I think the bars at the top should not be as tall.

Love it, I&#x27;ll start using it from now on.

Personal opinion: Too stories on the screen at once. Is there an option to adjust the number of columns?

awesome project! this is the HN that i&#x27;ve been looking for. the ask&#x2F;new&#x2F;show are burried in the original Hacker News but in here, it&#x27;s balanced and a much better way to view the content. huge props!<p>another huge props is that you are from nepal, which i rarely see get represented.

Love it when I could swipe the cards from the deck with headlines I don&#x27;t care about.

I like it. The only thing I would add is a style for visited links similar to hackernews.

Seemed nice until it died. :-) Can&#x27;t wait to try it some more later.

This looks interesting... Maybe collapsible model for comments might work?

Too busy for me :&#x2F;

I like this. Will try in the next days and then give feedback.

This is extremely neat! Love it.

oh man, that&#x27;s great. Love it.