Box Piper Hacker News
Re-Imagined Hacker News with a re-designed UI/UX
Box Piper Hacker News launched on April 25, 2021 with 140 votes, #230 of 3,754 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 5 years on.
What it does
An innovative and re-imagined version of HN for this decade. With an improved UI/UX, story mode like Snapchat, and a focus to design it in a "202X" way for instant HN content consumption. Also, a new https://twitter.com/boxpiperapp in town will keep you HN updated, once a day.
We are transitioning to a new world. Stay Tuned!
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