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For the record, the 11" Air is 1366x768. That resolution will comfortably hold two side-by-side Emacs buffers. (1280x800 won't hold 80 characters-wide side-by-side buffers under the default Ubuntu font, but decreasing the font size by a notch will make it fit.)

For what it's worth, there does exist a 1600x900 12.1" screen in the Panasonic SX. Also there's an ASUS transformer tablet (or something), maybe not yet out, that has a 1920x1200 resolution in something like a 10" screen.
There are other functional things with HN that need improvement. For instance, when you edit a comment, and hit update, you should be taken back to the post. Although I have to edit my comments to fix typos, maybe editing comments shouldn't be allowed at all?
That’s not uncommon. Frutiger (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frutiger) was designed for the signage in the Charles De Gaulle Airport but was later used everywhere.

The characteristics that make for a good signage font seem to me to be beneficial in many other applications.
You can quote the 4th amendment all you like, let me introduce you to what they actually do if you have something they would like: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asset_forfeiture
> I know Hacker News is all about fast load times and minimal bandwidth usage, hence the lack of much graphical work in the current version.

Actually, I believe that the simplified design of HN as it is currently helps ward off the typical Internet surfer looking for new links to click on. The last thing HN needs is to attract users who only post pictures of animals.

My single piece of design criticism for HN would be to provide a hi-res upvote triangle image (heck, why isn't it pure CSS?) for retina display devices.
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Why shouldn't a government offer such a service?

In fact, most large cities in America already do--parking! Most parking in America is priced well below the market value. (Slightly more arguable but still true: all non-toll (and some toll) public roadways.)

Another example are the quasi-governmental agencies that run mass transit systems; none of them approach full revenue recovery in America that I know of.

Perhaps an example closer to the "information" and "technology" bent of public broadband? Public libraries function at a loss, in that the direct fees they collect through fines and other revenue generating services come nowhere close to their cost to operate. There are very few (almost none) direct calls for state governments to ban local public libraries and nearly every decries attempts by book publishers in their attempts to crowd out libraries by restrictive, number of check out limited DRM on eBooks.

We have long accepted in America, for many arenas, that if a government (whether local, state, or federal) chooses to provide a service at a below market price because they think it's a net benefit to their community. Most private companies don't even complain that much normally, since they can compete against the government at better service or quality, of course. People are willing to pay a premium for that. This is an especially odd place to defend the companies attempting to restrict governments from providing services to their residents, when Telecoms have received huge government subsidies and government sanctioned monopolies for years that allowed them to create a huge infrastructure and head start.

If they're really doing so poorly that they feel threatened by much maligned (everybody remember DMV jokes?) local government, they've just been horrible companies and it is a proper place for governments to step in and provide better service.
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You're thinking of price per square foot. The higher that is, the smaller a "2 bedroom" tends to be. The average size of a home sold in Sunset is larger than one sold in Pac Heights.
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So there are no commission fees or monthly fees or any hidden fees? How do you make money if you don't tax the transactions somehow?

If there aren't hidden fees, then i love this idea, i might actually sign up for a facebook account, haha.
Wow, that's really confusing terminology. I would never have guessed that a "check" corresponded to a url or port.

Why do you hide the link to pricing info in the "Features" section? My first question about any product is "How much will it cost me?".

The back button doesn't work in either browser I tried (Chrome and Safari). Click Features, then click Our Customers, then hit back. The page scrolls up about 2 pixels.
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Maybe people notice that techcrunch articles get upvoted. Hence they submit TC articles (to get karma. humans love to have more than their fellow of anything: green beans, salt rocks, pieces of paper etc).

This can be addressed in two ways:

1) Randomly allow a subset of users to upvote article (like slashdot's moderation system).

2) Cap karma from articles.

Sorry if I'm massively mistaken and people don't get karma from article submissions.
feel like if you squish it a bit. make the header less dizzy, and make all the comments line up on the left -- you're set.
Your design is nice but not very mobile device friendly. and theres no point in putting the post position in orange background, its unreadable/invisible.
Making a Wine version instead of the real thing was also lame.

I would have guessed that at least a few Googlers would be using Linux on their primary computers.
I also found them to be distracting. Also, I like the thin & sleek header bar, especially on a mobile.
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"(IMO text is too tiny)"

I run HN at 3 CTRL-+s. It solves the problem, permanently in most browsers.
- The red list numbers are essentially glorified, distracting, bullets

- Why does "x Points" look like a button? The word "points" also does not need to be repeated for each item, or needs to be deemphasized in favor of the number.

- Comment links are all over the place and look like a river of grey blobs running down the page.

- Article titles need more emphasis than the previously mentioned elements
I'm talking about all-together meals, not cafeteria and catering which is totally normal and acceptable by pretty much everybody.
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Well, in that case, the "lock in" comes from S3 being better and cheaper than the alternatives. In which case that's something to be applauded, not criticized.
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It was a joke... visualize tubes coming out of someone's ears. Just because it's a colloquialism doesn't mean you should ignore the imagery it conjures.
You could mention the other podcast without dissing this one on the first day of its existence. The thing barely exists yet.
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Who says we're a bunch of "old farts?" I feel surrounded by "young whippersnappers" around here.
Ah, nice try, but No.

Nothing personal, but you are missing the most important point of existing design - it's the information density and the lack of any whitespace whatsoever. Whatever the redesign it needs to preserve 20+ stories per page, it's a must.
Whilst I don't want to pick on the OP, this is such an important point. Its all too often that 'design' gets confused for 'eye candy'. This doesn't just happen on websites, but in all design based professions. And this is a bit of a case in point.

The HN audience tends to want high-information-density, not necessarily visual joy (or for that matter extra sugar for clarity of new users). Its a very different thing to design than a website-shopfront. Generally I think it works very well as is....
It seems to me as though most of the critics here dislike the decreased information density more than anything else. This is a problem easily solved; make the text smaller and decrease the space between elements.

On a broader topic, though, many of the commenters appear to view style and substance as opposing forces. O hackers, can we not have both the functionality and the form? The presence and organization of information does not fundamentally conflict with rounded rectangles, smoother fonts, CSS buttons and all the other jazz that populate our startup pages.

Arguing that the ugliness of the current design improves the quality of the user base is the online equivalent of wearing coke bottle glasses because it makes you look nerdier. Let's present our services as both sexy and smart.
Would you mind sharing the extra stylesheet you mention ?
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No i think it's fine. After you click it once you'll know. Takes about 3 seconds.
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IMO, most important design value for HN should be readability. But this design? I don't think so. It just distract viewer's focus.

Current HN has too wide with respect to font size neither. :(
I never quite understood how the government could have the power to completely shut down a business before a court had determined the business' practices to be illegal. It seems completely backward to me.

In other well known laysuits against major publicly traded companies, for example the anti-trust suit against Microsoft or AT&T, the government wasn't able to take any action against the company until a settlement or verdict had taken place.

Even in other torrent lawsuits, like the isohunt.com lawsuit, those sites weren't shut down even after being served the suit. In fact isohunt.com is still operational despite the lawsuit that was filed a number of years ago.

So I wonder under what legal authority the FBI operates to completely shut down an entire business without a court order or ruling?
the reason why i said google+ is ruining everything is referring to how they are focusing on one thing and that thing is Google+ as per the convo Sergey had with Jobs about concentrating on one thing and stop turning into Microsoft.
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Well that makes me feel better about my own cold email success rate. In my experience, other founders are more willing to connect than VCs. A lot of them have their emails on their blogs, and are probably willing to introduce you to their own investors.
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It's about ten Raspberry Pi computers capable of running Ruby.

That's a bargain compared to other ISO standards though.
What's most telling about this situation is that something that is clearly not that good nor interesting is at the top of HN. Perhaps this is just 'good' inasmuch as its HN bait.
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Is this only for us residents?
>When you work for law enforcement you get orders and you carry them out. These people are just like anyone else; honest people trying to get by. If anything it should be the ones giving orders who get canned.

You could say the same thing about the cops in Russia who raid businesses that have gotten on the wrong side of the state or its business network. Of course it should be the ones who give the orders who get canned. But noone gets canned.

The definition of tyranny is "arbitrary or unrestrained exercise of power". That accurately describes the current situation where authorities can, with no risk to themselves, freely take your property and destroy your livelihood even when you've broken no laws. The fact that the US can even do this to people in other countries should be concerning to anyone who values rule of law.
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Not a commentary on this particular design, but rather just a general thought: I would argue that the very utilitarian design of this site is actually a feature rather than a deficiency to be corrected. Generally the point of design is to send an unspoken message. For a store, you want to send the message of "we're safe and professional and welcoming", so rounded corners and soft gradients and open spaces are of much utility there.

On the other hand, for a site designed for self described "hackers", I think having a very utilitarian as-simple-as-possible not-trying-to-impress-you design sends the message that "appearances don't matter here, the content is the focus"
It is pretty easy to accomplish too. Here is a perl program an explanation on how to encode images on sounds.

http://www.ohmpie.com/imageencode/
As others have mentioned, there are plenty of good Ruby tutorials around. Personally, I thought "why's (poignant) Guide to Ruby"[1] was pretty great. It goes off topic quite a lot, but I think it's a joy to read while still learning the core concepts.

[1] http://mislav.uniqpath.com/poignant-guide/
Nice design but it doesn't add anything to the site experience for me. The header seems too big for orange. I used the option to turn the color of the header on HN from orange to white to further simplify the look of it. I do kinda like the number of comments bubble though. I'd love to see a link on the 404 pages.
This brings up an interesting debate. It's very difficult (perhaps impossible) to turn off personal emotions, and we entrust our children to other people to teach them. The emotions, intelligence, and beliefs of our teachers directly affect what our children learn. Perhaps we shouldn't be teaching emotional subjects in school, and instead focusing on the tools needed to understand them. Leave the emotional upbringing to the parents. On the other hand, I personally know a lot of people that didn't read at home when they were kids, and if the only way they're going to be exposed to literature is at school, then we should provide that opportunity. A difficult quandary.

In my classes in high school, we spent an awful lot of time on literature. I wish we had spent more time on grammar instead. I can speak at length about Holden Caulfield, but I couldn't for the life of me tell you what a past participle is (note: going off to Wikipedia now to find out).
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I think you're a little too harsh. The comment bubbles are helpful.

Your eye might need to jump around more because you're not used to the new design yet. Sometimes an article might say "discuss" which just means 0 comments. This would make that much clearer.

You might say you shouldn't have to "get used to" a good redesign, but after using a website for years, almost everyone would need to overcome old habits.

HN might be designed to compact a large amount of data in a small area, but reading tiny letters isn't exactly good UX.
I like all of it but the bubbles. I find those distracting. I do care about the comment count/links more than the points though. If it were me (not a designer) I'd stick the '114 pts' right of the arrow, no bubble.. and use the current points bubble (which looks like a button) for the comments link. This would actually severely improve my mobile experience where I often hit the article instead of the comments link.
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The question you need to ask yourself is, "Does my design add value?"

The top comment already sums it up perfectly - Design is not about making things pretty or looking nice. Design is about function, design is about value.

I won't deny that the design looks good. I'd say it looks 'prettier' in certain ways, but if its not more functional or doesn't add more value to my experience on HN, what good is it to me?
You remind me of Steve Jobs (in a good way).
Are you sure its not the browser's own rules and not the lack of an actual website that address?

Try ending with a period.

Certainly http://dk. works.
I'm sure there are others.
Creative? Not always. Have you heard of one Mr. Grinda out of France and his clone-based empire?

http://tinyurl.com/7g5sk95

That said, I'm currently involved in a Kickstarter project in Design and it occurred to me that since the tech-side seems to draw in the most attention/funding these days--not true when I opened my project/account--, isn't confining this platform to the US counter-productive? Thus stagnating the progress of current or potentially new viable innovations.

If anyone is interested I'm seriously considering open to accepting applications for potential tech projects within Europe, S. America and Asia that want but are unable to use KS, provided they meet certain criteria, for a nominal fee in an opportunity to advance this avenue before Grinda and his ilk clone it throughout the World. Its my free Market solution to ensure that Kickstarter remains the crowd sourcing platform of choice.

If you know anyone in need of such a service tell them to post their email/link here and we can get in touch to get the ball rolling. No promises made, of course, but I think its a short-term solution to the current geographical issue.
What would we be judging them on?

EDIT: I mean, what criteria would we be judging them on? Would we be following some sort of rubric or would we be personally judging the project?
It's a standard for 1.8.7, right?
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My single piece of design criticism for HN would be to provide a hi-res upvote triangle image (heck, why isn't it pure CSS?) for retina display devices.

You don't even need CSS, just an unicode character: http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/25b2/index.htm
A company is not a family. Repeat after me: a company is not a family.

In families, mom and dad are probably fucking on a regular basis. They also fight over trivialities and cheat on each other. The kids are CHILDREN who make mistakes, and have fewer legal rights than the adults. The parent(s) fund the whole thing by working for someone else, the children are basically leeches that do not contribute to the profits of the family. They all live together and sleep next to each other and spend enough time with each other to hate each other sometimes. They fight over limited resources and the ultimate goal of a successful family is to eventually disband socially.

They spend all day separated from each other, and come together at night to spend money and time on things together.

Does this sound like any sort of company you'd want to work at?
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I find the number of comments are a better indicator of how interesting an article is than the number of points. I don't even look at the point values.
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- Content is king. The density of content on HN is what people enjoy about it.

- Focal point should be the submission title. The item's position and number of upvotes shouldn't attract the most visual attention.

- Use color sparingly to draw focus. The submission titles should be orange, not their position in the list.

- Style should target audience. The style and aesthetic of HN is more appealing to hackers and programmers than the iOS aesthetic.

- Accessibility is important. Stories should be tab-key accessible.

- Redesigns should improve. OP's redesign shouldn't be a coat of new paint, but a superior model of engineering.
And they ignored the "©2012 Google" at the bottom of the page...
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Another way of looking at it is that the new iPad has 2048x1536 on a 10" screen - and yet despite this, even your genetic inferiors can read what's on it...
'I would drop the development of the QNX OS and all related systems'

I knew it was coming and wanted to stop reading after this. With that said Android may work out for RIM vs other companies because they make pretty good hardware and they'd have their own suite to differentiate themselves. With that said I really like the Playbook OS a lot and would love to see what it can do for their phones.
Second. I was stoked about Retina display, not because it was an actual retina display IMO, but because you didn't have "pixels the size of gorillas," so to speak.
Check out this redesign

Am I missing something? I don't see any noticeable difference between this and the current design.

It's now harder to read

I find it immensely more readable than the current design, which to me is a left-justified wall of dense, unnavigable text. The low-contrast colors of the secondary information make it hard to pick out information quickly and increase eye strain.
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