YHK - yet another hacker news clone

21 points joshmarinacci 3 hours ago 5 comments

After ten years I’m working on a redesign of my personal tech blog. I want to look at some other blogs with good modern design. Of course searching for ‘well designed blogs’ or ‘webdesign 2026’ brings up endless marketing listicles. Even after wading through the crap, the advice is focused on advertising and product centric sites, not prose heavy sites with good typography.

So my question to you is: What are some of your favorite text heavy blogs that are a joy to read?

I don’t mean the content (though that helps too), but rather sites where the actual experience of reading is pleasant. Think: good fonts, sticky headers (or not), well formatted code snippets, and responsive images. Slide in navbars vs inline table of contents.

Thanks, - j

RickS 2 hours ago | parent

Lesswrong for both sidebars: the heading based TOC on the left, and the margin notes on the right: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/bJ2haLkcGeLtTWaD5/welcome-to...

For interactive / code snippets Maxime Heckel: https://blog.maximeheckel.com/posts/the-study-of-shaders-wit...

Honorable mentions Maggie Applebaum https://maggieappleton.com/ai-enlightenment Marek Chotoborski https://zanlib.dev/blog/number-inputs-in-react/

Line width, sane fonts, avoiding clever shit unless very polished, gets you a long way.

ktrnka 1 hour ago | parent

I like the formatting and readability of https://nesbitt.io/2026/05/28/protestware-for-coding-agents.... though I wish it loaded faster.

b00palicious 31 minutes ago | parent

Here is a decent collection of some text heavy personal sites. Not affiliated in any way: https://mnmm.xyz/

gustavus 18 minutes ago | parent

Just finished a series on

acoup.blog

Must also mention

https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/