Nope, that's not an improvement. You gotta add hover animations to each news item, fading effects, real time updates of timestamps and likes, thumbnails(because how else can we differentiate between the items?!!1!), and don't forget the ads inbetween to not blow a hole into your budget due to the increase in bandwidth thanks to the innovative responsive frameworks.

This half-assed proposal is not a good solution! /s

Idly I wonder how many people will answer as a knee-jerk reaction to the title and not actually read the article and see what it says. I'd guess quite a few ... perhaps this comment will give them pause for thought, and it will become fewer.

Excellent satire :)

"Until then, go here and browse some more trends to follow at the cost of authenticity, objectivity, originality, reasoning and fundamental understanding of how to design user interfaces"

Sorry. I disagree.

The only thing I'd change is to put the flag|hide|etc as prefix icons so I can get 1 headline per line with minimal vertical spacing. This gives about 60 headlines per page and the highest "headline density". In other words, one headline per line.

I want information, not scenery.

Did you miss that this whole article is satire?

In fact, I did.

I have been tempted to write a program to fetch the hackernews headlines and eliminate the useless cruft so it hit one of the things I find annoying.

I came in here ready to be angry, and am leaving with a smile. Thank you.

Pffft! --call that modern design? Where are the badly drawn flat vector style illustrations?

Thanks for letting us know, but I'm not sure many people around here agree with you.