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Re:Show HN: Hacker Times, a New York Times-Inspired Version ... by danpalmer on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @01:55AM (#50348904)
Isn't what people pay for with the NYT or other publications, the journalism and editing? Like, the UI isn't why people pay for it.

Given that this seems to just be a re-skin, why a full site that updates hourly, instead of just a browser extension that rewrites the content in-place live?

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Re:Show HN: Hacker Times, a New York Times-Inspired Version ... by prmoustache on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @03:17AM (#50349407)
Quoting the show hn introduction: "I thought it would be fun"

I think we can leave it at that no?

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Re:Show HN: Hacker Times, a New York Times-Inspired Version ... by FearNotDaniel on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @03:26AM (#50349474)
The instant value I got from this is actually something that resembles journalism and editing, even if it’s just an LLM doing the job: the rewriting of headlines along with a half-decent editorial summary paragraph gives me a clear overview of what each link is actually about without the usual puzzling over what the cryptic HN headline is trying to say.
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Re:Show HN: Hacker Times, a New York Times-Inspired Version ... by Pavilion2095 on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @07:00AM (#50350919)
Yeah. Look at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50321605 — what the hell is this? Why do people click on random links allegedly belonging to no name projects? What are these projects about? Fascinating.
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Re:Show HN: Hacker Times, a New York Times-Inspired Version ... by Pavilion2095 on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @06:59AM (#50350906)
Yes, but it's still nice to have a good UI. HN has many things that one can find inconvenient.
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