Show HN: Hacker Times, a New York Times-inspired version of Hacker News
- ID
- 42452
- Status
- summarized
- Published
- 03 Nov 2026, 9:53 AM
- Fetched
- 03 Nov 2026, 6:11 PM
- Provider
- Hacker News
- Category
- dev-community
- Original URL
- https://hackertimes.ca/
- Source URL
- https://hnrss.org/best
Summary
- Score
- 3.0
- Created
- 03 Nov 2026, 6:12 PM
- Tags
- Audience
- developersvibe_codersstartup_founders
What happened
Hacker Times (hackertimes.ca) is a Show HN side project that reformats Hacker News as a New York Times-style front page: dateline 'Tuesday, November 3, 2026', EST timestamps, per-story comment counts, and 'Past editions' / 'Saved edition' navigation. The thread drew 247 points and 74 comments. Its headlines are invented in straight news voice — an MIT CSAIL team editing neural-network weights, Andrej Karpathy's 'HackerTube' video library, a PostgreSQL release delay tied to AI-found bugs — presented with bylines and comment counts as if reported.
Why it matters
The build itself changes nothing for your stack, but the artifact is a working demo of how much credibility typography and layout carry: strip the URL and a screenshot of this page is indistinguishable from real tech reporting, fabricated GPT-6 and CVE-2026-98432 headlines included. If you share news screenshots in Slack, decks, or client updates, this is a concrete case where you now need to check the source URL before repeating a headline — and if you build aggregator or dashboard UIs, it shows how much perceived authority comes from masthead, dateline, and byline formatting rather than content.
Discussion angle
Show the front page cold and ask the room which headlines they'd have believed — then ask what verification step they actually apply before forwarding a screenshot of 'news' to a team channel or investor deck.