unim.press
Productivity
news reader
SHOW HN2020
638points
122comments
#23of 3,028 in 2020
Top 1%of 2020 by points
How HN took it
DebatedReal support and real criticism
22 positive, 26 neutral or asking, 7 mixed, 23 critical, out of 78 comments about the project. Thread score +0.01.
Execution: 2 for, 15 againstIdea: 13 for, 0 againstDesign: 3 for, 7 againstPerformance: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.
positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Fun, novel idea that looks great
From 4 comments
This is amazing! Like the newspapers in harry potter. You’ve closed the loop on automating a dynamic, crowdsourced, curated front page. The meta paper. Now do hackers news. It’ll…
sixstringtheory on HNThis is superb, a very cool idea! Congrats.
mellosouls on HNAwesome job! Super cool.
Matt-Gleich on HNLooks cool. Superb!
subhashp on HN
Suggested extensions like HN front page or PDF export
From 3 comments
Would be cool if there was one of these for the front page of HN. Pretty challenging to parse though. Headlines and comments should be simple enough, articles and images not so…
excalibur on HNThis would be cooler if there were an option to export to pdf and epub
egfx on HNCool! Another suggestion: why not extract and show the text of the leading comment (or maybe some other metric) of the articles in question rather than lorem ipsum filler? And an…
Santosh83 on HN
Objections
Fails to load with Firefox tracking protection or ad blockers due to blocked Reddit API requests
From 4 comments
The Same Origin Policy disallows reading the remote resource at https://api.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/hot?limit=25. (Reason: CORS request did not succeed). The resource at…
slater on HNThis doesn't work with Enhanced Tracking Protection and/or uBlock Origin enabled in Firefox. I wonder if there's a way around that server-side.
cosmojg on HNA note to those using Firefox who get stuck at "Loading stories...": Enhanced Tracking Protection (on by default?) blocks the request. To disable it for this page, click the…
jml7c5 on HNturn off enhanced tracking protection in Firefox if the content doesn't load
weswpg on HN
Justified text with poor hyphenation leaves gaps
From 3 comments
The hyphenation on the center-spread column doesn't look great, leaving big whitespace gaps in justified text. In my experience, "hyphens: auto" in browsers doesn't work well at…
dfabulich on HNPlease do not use justified formatting for text unless you can hyphenate it. Otherwise you end up with large chunks of white space between the words, especially in narrower (then…
andrei_says_ on HNI like it. Although I wouldn't use justified text for headlines. Makes it really difficult to read, at least for me.
mouzogu on HN
Lorem ipsum placeholder text instead of real content
From 3 comments
Text always says lorem ipsum. It could be composed of comments in the thread.
asimjalis on HNIt's still got lorem ipsum in its teeth.
visarga on HNThat's cool. Although there are some kerning issues... And the lipsum might be a bit much :D
keyle on HN
Requests
Show comments or real article text instead of lorem ipsum
From 3 comments
Cool! Another suggestion: why not extract and show the text of the leading comment (or maybe some other metric) of the articles in question rather than lorem ipsum filler? And an…
Santosh83 on HNText always says lorem ipsum. It could be composed of comments in the thread.
asimjalis on HNWouldn't it be cool if you could replace the "Lorem ipsum..." with first lines of the link?
seesawtron on HN
Better error messages when loading fails
From 2 comments
It hangs on "reading stories". Web app authors can be very creative, but one thing I don't like about web apps is that often their error handling is nonexistent. It's not about…
self_awareness on HN> It actually does handle errors properly IMO if a website displays a loading message indefinitely then this isn’t error handling. I’d say that showing accurate feedback is part…
thih9 on HN
Reddit login and personal feed support
From 2 comments
Amazing! Any plans of adding reddit login / user home feed ?
moviecrazy on HNThis does some fascinating things to my brain and I think I want a Reddit front end that lets me put in my username to see my own front page as an auto-generated Newspaper.
egypturnash on HN
Questions
Whether it works on mobile browsers
From 2 comments
I love this. There’s a weird bug though when you try to zoom in on mobile safari. It jumps back out again and makes it hard to read the smaller articles. Fantastic idea and…
jonplackett on HNNot loading on FF mobile
badrabbit on HN
Alternatives named
The Magazine (iPad RSS aggregator with newspaper look)
From 1 comment
Several years ago there was an extremely popular app that was an RSS newsfeed aggregator for iPads with an unfortunately very generic name called "the magazine" that did this…
scpedicini on HN
Morning Paper style digest
From 1 comment
Imagine that combined with this: https://onezero.medium.com/the-morning-paper-revisited-35b407822494
onurcel on HN