copy news.ycombinator.com. differentiate yourself (if you want) with content (maybe geo-focused? hn might be comparatively weak on NYC, Boulder, Seattle, Austin content?), and/or add actual features.
It's not like the community even cares about "pretty" design, they want functional design, and HN is approximately as good as it will get. The things to fix about HN are the non-reversible actions, annoying link-timeout due to continuations (hint: don't use Arc, probably...), etc.
It's not like the community even cares about "pretty" design, they want functional design, and HN is approximately as good as it will get. The things to fix about HN are the non-reversible actions, annoying link-timeout due to continuations (hint: don't use Arc, probably...), etc.