https://hackerweb.app is also nice if you'd like to skim through the story list and the top level comment threads using a better interface (YMMV). You can also expand specific comment threads.

good/bad is subjective. I like HN just the way it is, and I don't actually prefer http://hckrnews.com

There's a page out there somewhere, where someone curates a list of all the alternative HN portals.