Submission by Limb

Hacker News(https://news.ycombinator.com/) is the thinking layer of Silicon Valley. Every day, engineers, founders, and researchers gather on a single page to figure out what matters first. It surfaces the ideas shaping the industry before Twitter, newsletters, or the mainstream catches up. But the interface hasn’t changed since 2007. HN++ is a full redesign of Hacker News. The content and product stay the same, but the design is completely reinvented. The experience is rebuilt from scratch with glassmorphism, warm SF-inspired tones, frosted cards, and a calmer reading flow without losing information density. Three modes shape the product. Highlights surfaces the best stories of the day by topic. Feed is the live firehose of everything happening on HN in real time. Podcast turns the front page into something you can listen to, with a built-in player and daily episodes generated automatically from top stories. Everything streams live from the official Hacker News Firebase API. The audio experience adds a completely new dimension to HN. Every story includes a Listen button that generates a short narration blending the article with the comment discussion. HN++ Pod is a fully automated daily podcast built from the day’s top threads. Voice Search lets you query HN by speaking naturally. HN++ Bot is a conversational agent with live access to Hacker News — ask what’s trending, what people are debating, or who’s hiring. Built with ElevenLabs (Text-to-Speech, Scribe v2, Text-to-Dialogue (Eleven v3), ElevenAgents, Music API), Vercel v0 for component generation and easy deployment, Firecrawl for scraping, Gemini as the intelligence layer, Cloudflare R2 for storage, and GitHub Actions for daily podcast automation. Hacker News has always had the best content on the internet. HN++ gives it a surface worthy of it — and now a voice. HN++: Same firehose, new senses!