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The Controversial Academic (Nathan Cofnas) Who Ignited the Jason Arday Furor.


Show HN: Hackerznews – Yet Another HN Client. Around a little more than a year ago, thanks to the advancements in agentic coding, I created my personal ideal HN reading app.
There are oh so many of those, but this one is mine. I couldn’t write syntax in any programming language if my life depended on it, so I was glad to have different models help me in that regard. I’m transparent about it, because a lot of HN users might view this negatively and I don’t want to mislead anyone.
The updated feature set includes:
* Updated UI for everything, including the story view with a favicon and simplified actions.
* Dark mode switching based on device settings as a default, but optional setting
* Responsive design for hopefully easier reading on mobile
* On Desktop split view: the comment section opening up with the story list as a sidebar for easier story switching.
* Updated thread design
* Added Save functionality
As I’m only an avid reader, not really contributor, I don’t really care about any account management or reply features. Nothing in here requires an account. Saving a story is simply locally done.
I know there are some controversial things in this app, like the use of a JS framework for something as simple as this, or the color of the main nav (which doesn’t pass AA). I tried to appeal to some of the audiences whims, like making the general comment UI relatively dense (I feel this crowd appreciates it!), but I want to make one thing very clear: I built this for me and not necessarily anyone else. I didn’t really anticipate to share this, I just wanted to make something nice and proper for myself. I’d love some feedback, but I guess I can make my life easy and just say: “I like it this way”.
If you find this useful, great - let me know in a comment. If you find this dreadful, feel free to tell me why.
PS: as for the name, I misremembered the movie “Hackers” to be called “Hackerz” for whatever reason and based it off this.
I’m going to go to sleep now - bye!


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Show HN: Hacker News minus the slop

Show HN: Hacker News minus the slop. Like everybody, I'm getting sick of seeing slop on HN. So like a good little hypocrite, I vibe coded a little CF Worker that uses the fantastic HTMLRewriter + Luna to filter low-quality posts.
It leaves popular and controversial stories alone. Everything else still goes directly to Hacker News.
Not my proudest project lol; drop feedback in the comments and I’ll throw it back into Codex, see what we get ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Source: https://github.com/mintshelf/hnfiltered.com


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