Hacker News Reader

Comment by pritambarhate | Hacker News Reader

Is there a hacker news client which focuses more on typography. I use official hacker news site on Web. On a Retina Mac book Pro with 13-inch screen. I find the fonts too small. Also, one major issue is the line height. Even with browser zomming, the text lines seem to be too close together.

I wonder if other hacker news members also find this problematic.

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I use the HackerNew Chrome extension to improve the site UI/UX: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hackernew/lgoghlnd...

The source can be found here: https://github.com/tommoor/HackerNew

It always confuses me now when I open the site on another persons machine.

I 100% agree, but this has been brought up often, and the powers that be do not seem to value this opinion too much.

Thanks for this, I usually prefer smaller fonts when reading online but I do agree that the official Hacker News site is quite small. More than a few people have mentioned they would prefer having the ability to increase size/line spacing so I'm going to try to add this.

Did you try this one: https://react-hn.appspot.com/

Thanks for Sharing. Much better.

I'm on a plain Linux laptop with a 15-inch screen. HN is the only site which I always read at a 175% zoom.

Checkout mackernews.com I Made that app to scratch my own itch for precisely the reasons you bring up. :)

You might consider a browser extension like Stylebot which lets you bring your own custom CSS.

Thanks for sharing. Will try it out.

Sure thing. I also keep a collection of Hacker News clients on Pinboard.

https://pinboard.in/u:tedmiston/t:hacker-news/

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