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Show HN: Hardwary- Hacker News for Hardware

by exposition on 6/1/23, 5:32 PM with 21 comments

  • by jimmyswimmy on 6/1/23, 6:06 PM

    Well, if you're asking for opinions, I'll offer a few. I certainly appreciate having another option for focused tech aggregation, especially if the comments section is able to attract and retain high quality, well-informed commenters rather than redditors.

    Stylistically, I think there's way too much white space on the front page. HN has spoiled me.

    And if it's supposed to be a HW site that attracts good commenters, there's way, way too much intro level material on the top list right now. I was getting turned off by the several intro to FPGA links but intro to soldering made me close the page. Not that introductory material can't be there, but there is a very low cool stuff to introductory material ratio.

    I like the idea a lot, and wish you luck. Hopefully I find it again in a few years and love it and eat my words.

  • by ryeguy_24 on 6/1/23, 7:55 PM

    I always like the idea of a Hacker News clone for other topics but I've never seen one that sticks. I would assume it's a critical mass and quality user base issue. This site is so amazing because of all the submitters, the upvotes, and the commenters. Hard to replicate that.

  • by dabluecaboose on 6/1/23, 6:05 PM

    I was just thinking to myself that I'm much more interested in the hardware projects than software on HN. Hope this takes off!

  • by chrisco255 on 6/1/23, 6:01 PM

    Like to see HN but for specific specialties. Still, you might want to learn from HN's design and keep the front page nice and compact with smaller fonts and minimal whitespace. Even on a mobile device I can view 12 headlines at first glance on HN. On this site, the header is enormous and I can only see 3 headlines on first paint. Drop the "Today's Headlines" altogether and minimize the size of the navbar.

  • by satiric on 6/2/23, 7:04 PM

    The whitespace and font size you have now is good. On HN, I have to zoom in to 140% to be able to read comfortably. Just went back to 100% and quickly remembered why I had it zoomed in.

    No one is using 480p CRTs anymore, IDK why HN is still formatted that way. Regardless, I like how it is. My scroll wheel is not poisonous, I'm happy to use it.

  • by johndoe0815 on 6/1/23, 5:47 PM

    Looks like there's a number of interesting articles listed already.

    One little inspiration from HN would also be nice - adding the age/year of the linked web page to the linked title, so it's easier to see which link refers to recent content.

  • by pbrw on 6/1/23, 6:21 PM

    Psychology, writing, culture topics interest me the most when I browse HN. It would be cool to have a HN-style websites for them. Do you know any?

  • by tiffanyh on 6/1/23, 7:28 PM

    https://lobste.rs

    This is where Lobsters tag/label system comes in handy.

    You still get the all tech news frontpage, but if you wanted to filter by hardware - you can do that.

    Like so --> https://lobste.rs/t/hardware

    This also address the problem of not having enough content for a site to take off, since it's similar to reddit with it's subreddit system.

  • by dvh on 6/1/23, 6:18 PM

    Decrease padding on mobile, 1cm of white space is too much.

  • by lofaszvanitt on 6/1/23, 8:03 PM

    Ah, another machine generated site? We'll see?

  • by matthewbarras on 6/1/23, 8:20 PM

    Ah, been wanting a HN-esqe hardware site. Nice!

  • by electroagenda on 6/1/23, 8:29 PM

    Looks like a great idea. Good luck!