I've updated some things to this design.

* I made the background not white, which seemed to be hard on the eyes; I decided to keep the color scheme from orignal HN.

* Changed vote button icon; moved point count together with the button.

* Moved comments from the right to the left, closer to the link and vote button. Reason: it's too important of an element to have it be all on the very far right.

* Moved less important content (time and poster) to the far right.

* Internal stuff: I'm using localStorage APIs to cache the data I'm scrapping from a third party hackernews API source. This is because the source kept getting hiccups.

Here are my questions to the rest of those who are still interested in this endeavor:

Should I go with grey text on white, or black text on tanish grey (like it is now)?

Are the icons too distracting? Are they good, or would you suggest I do something else? Maybe I should ditch the orange background on these icons, and go with orange text when mousing over the buttons?

Some idea I have planned:

* Search field in header * Automatic next page loading with ---page n--- separators (if I can get this to work with the API I'm using) * Replace submit button with a visually persistent composer item.

Let me know what you think of these ideas too.