I just realized I'd be much more surprised and exited to see this as an actual desktop application made with something like Lazarus, than imitation of such a program with web tech. Strange times.
You can get most of the functionality in the page (which isn't much) by setting up Thunderbird (which with the classic layout looks very similar to Outlook Express) as an RSS reader for Hacker News' RSS feed.
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I just realized I'd be much more surprised and exited to see this as an actual desktop application made with something like Lazarus, than imitation of such a program with web tech. Strange times.
You can get most of the functionality in the page (which isn't much) by setting up Thunderbird (which with the classic layout looks very similar to Outlook Express) as an RSS reader for Hacker News' RSS feed.
I hope some picks up the challenge.