Better HN

An alternative frontend for Hacker News available at bhn.vercel.app.

This fork keeps the original app lightweight while adding a few practical improvements for daily use.

What This Fork Improves

• System theme mode, alongside light and dark.
• Better comment reading on mobile, including smoother in-page navigation and cleaner thread spacing.
• Built-in RSS feeds under /rss, including frontpage, newest, ask, show, polls, best, active, classic, and best comments.
• Docker runtime and container-friendly deployment setup.
• Official Hacker News favicon set.

See CHANGES.md for the full fork-specific change log.

Docker

Create a compose.yaml with the published image:

services:
  web:
    image: ghcr.io/karamanliev/better-hn:latest
    ports:
      - "3000:3000"
    restart: unless-stopped

Then run:

docker compose up -d

Then open http://localhost:3000.