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Re:Creating a Web Development Newspaper. Thoughts? by natural_order on Monday June 20, 2011 @07:22PM (#2676559)
The question is what will this newspaper do that HN doesn't. Perhaps an approach would be creating a friendly and attention grabbing wrapper for HN, one that shows "trending" stories and popular comments to greater effect. Positioning questions and showcases in their own spot to maximise interest.

Also bear in mind who you're making this for. The developer mindset may require page efficiency (size of text, number of features), while designers may value page effectiveness (pictures, layout).

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Re:Creating a Web Development Newspaper. Thoughts? by blcArmadillo on Monday June 20, 2011 @07:44PM (#2676651)
I'd have to agree with everyone else on here that this probably wouldn't take off. Specifically with services like Flipbook coming out I don't see how even writing a HN wrapper would give you a real advantage.
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Re:Creating a Web Development Newspaper. Thoughts? by jaz on Monday June 20, 2011 @08:13PM (#2676759)
Hacker Monthly is basically an HN wrapper, and seems to be doing well - 5,000 subscribers as of a few months ago[2].

[1] http://hackermonthly.com/ [2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2445314

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