Hacker News - Unicorns and Improvements
By continental-shrew-31 · 5 months ago
Larger font, unicorns everywhere, sort by upvotes, gray for <50 points
Key Highlights
- Increases Hacker News text size for titles, navigation, ranks, and story metadata.
- Sorts visible story listings by upvotes from highest to lowest.
- Dims stories with fewer than 50 points using a gray, faded style.
- Adds unicorn-themed accents to the Hacker News header, navigation, and high-scoring stories.
Details
This Hacker News tweek changes the front-end view of news.ycombinator.com so stories are easier to scan at a glance. It increases text size across the page and reorders story listings by points, placing higher-upvoted items above lower-scoring ones.
Stories with fewer than 50 points are visually de-emphasized with a gray, faded appearance, while higher-scoring stories and navigation areas receive playful unicorn-themed accents. The result is a more readable, more visually opinionated Hacker News layout focused on score-based browsing.
Runs on
1 site
news.ycombinator.com
Developer
Tweek Code
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