HackerZen – a minimalist Hacker News clone

Show HN: HackerZen – a minimalist Hacker News clone

Operating in show hn launch, HackerZen – a minimalist Hacker News clone operates.

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Every so often I open a very long thread on HN and because there are so many replies it slows down my browser considerably. It's mostly the amount of elements in the HTML, so I felt like taking a shot at creating an HN frontend.I made this minimalist version of HN, and it works by just opening the index.html locally. It creates a local cache of the items fetched in IndexedDB, and only loads a few items in batches.Replying and upvoting only work with a local server, and also copying the user cookie, since I don't think there is a way to log in via API. This workaround works well if you don't mind installing Node and just running two or three commands, and having the terminal in the background

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Website: proc0.github.io/HackerZen