You run the risk of making it a lot easier to figure out your password for other sites once one of them is known though, right?

Say you create an account at fakecompany.com where they happily and naively save their passwords in plain text in their database. Wouldn't it be easy for that site admin to then figure out your facebook.com, for example, password?

I do this too. You just have to make sure your passwords have sufficient complexity, yet have an algorithm that is easy for you to remember. Just start off a base, let's say oUb$r8!A. Now let's use a simple algorithm of taking the first letter and last letter and injecting it somewhere into the base. So your new password for amazon.com is oUAb$r8!nA. For facebook.com it's oUFb$r8!kA. To the casual observer it looks just like any other password and it beats using the same password over and over again. You can of course make it even more obscure by changing the algorithm, just as long as it's easy to hash out in your head.

Yep, that makes sense. Thanks for clarifying.

Like the Tech page a lot and the idea in general.

Some thoughts/suggestions:

- Change the font. Really distracting.

- Like the simplicity and little splash of color provided by the favicons.

- Agree with photon_off on the popup menu. It also overlaps with its headline.

- I'd make the 'shared by' column more subtle (e.g., gray text instead) so the headlines jump out more.

- Add some padding between it and the headline as the longer headlines run right into it.

- A more visual way of representing the 'shared by' column might be nicer as well. It's not clear it matters to me exactly how many people shared an article but getting a sense of one headline vs. the others seems valuable.

- Totally a personal preference for me, but how repetitive "People" is in the 'shared by' column distracts me; the fact that it's a capital 'P' does too. :)

Nice work though. I can see this becoming a nice browser home page if you add some more customizability around the sources and their ordering.

Thanks, excellent feedback. I'll do all of this. Also, I do plan on adding some more customization options.

I would also move source column to right. Readers want to focus on article titles, not where it came from.

While it may be a bit of a time-sink, it's also very streamlined and efficient to consume. I love how visually simple it is: no images, the careful use of dark/light text, formatting of comments, lack of ads, etc. Compared to the other sites I still frequent, admittedly less and less since discovering HN, the differences are not minor. Definitely becoming a big fan though still very much an HN rookie.