I've seen lots of creative ways to build an alternate interface for Hacker News. A couple that might meet your criteria... The Hacker News second chance pool

I've seen lots of creative ways to build an alternate interface for Hacker News. A couple that might meet your criteria... The Hacker News second chance pool https://news.ycombinator.com/pool https://news.ycombinator.com/pool And this is a fun way to browser Hacker News showing all the posts that got at least 3 upvotes... https://news.ycombinator.com/over?points=3 https://news.ycombinator.com/over?points=3