This is a great story, and I've read some of it before, but the UX is just terrible. I was a quarter of the way through before I realised half the story was hidden in the photos.
document.querySelectorAll('.h-overlay').forEach((x) => x.style.cssText="display: block; left: 0px; top: 0px;");I prefer this js hack[0] which shows everything and after mouseover it allows to hide text for better image viewing.
But content and quality of texts are great!
Also appreciated would be a way to expose every image's text at once, for those of us who don't use our mice to read. (like the mobile layout)
[after reading: this is a great project and I deeply appreciate the amount of thought that went into its design. It would have been nice if there were some way to bring more of that awareness into the initial reading experience, instead of just dropping us into something unfamiliar and confusing, but that's a limitation of the hackernews interface and I'm not sure what you could have done about it other than show up and explain as you are doing here. Keep up the good work!]