But that boring web app doesn't even have pretty fonts. It even has a "next" button, so you can see more than 30 posts, who needs that? It shows the point cou

But that boring web app doesn't even have pretty fonts. It even has a "next" button, so you can see more than 30 posts, who needs that? It shows the point count in a smaller greyer font, instead of a big circle, so I can't instinctively choose posts by popularity instead of their headlines. It doesn't even pull up a random image from the article that might not have anything to do with the actual topic, and display it along with a preview of text, so I can't get distracted and pulled by fundamentally more attractive colorful pictures instead of boring text topics. It's not written in the newest JavaScript framework, it's just plain old HTML, some simple CSS and Racket making it all run. Racket! That doesn't even have "JS" in its name. What is this, 2013? Whoever wrote that version clearly doesn't know how Hacker News is meant to be viewed. ahem But seriously, the Hacker News site is one of my favorite "news" sites. Simple, clean, no distractions, just headlines. Also, some of the websites listed in the article are quite useful, like the search engine. Most of the others are simply different ways of reading Hacker News, not "better". Might be better for some people. Not for me.