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Would be cool if there was one of these for the front page of HN. Pretty challenging to parse though. Headlines and comments should be simple enough, articles a
by excalibur 6y ago
Would be cool if there was one of these for the front page of HN. Pretty challenging to parse though. Headlines and comments should be simple enough, articles and images not so much.
- thesephist 6y agoMy thoughts too! Hacker News was actually in a prototype of this and you can try it by going to https://unim.press/#hn https://unim.press/#hn -- but indeed, it didn't look great without pictures. Might be able to scrape linked articles and such, but I didn't get that far in an afternoon hack.
- divbzero 6y agoText alone can be beautiful. As one example, the front page of the Wall Street Journal in 1987 was predominantly text. [1] [1]: https://wsjshop.com/products/framed-reprint-crash-of-1987-stocks-plunge-508-amid-panicky-selling https://wsjshop.com/products/framed-reprint-crash-of-1987-st... "Black Monday Crash of 1987"
- fortran77 6y agohttps://unim.press/#LOLHackerNews https://unim.press/#LOLHackerNews
- thesephist 6y agoAh yes, now we come full circle.