Show HN: HN Mirror with Image Previews
Developer ernsheong launched HN Mirror, a Hacker News front-end at hackernews.beliantech.com that adds image previews to story listings.
Developer ernsheong launched HN Mirror, a Hacker News alternative front-end that surfaces image previews alongside story links, according to a Show HN post submitted on August 30, 2026. The tool is live at hackernews.beliantech.com.
The project mirrors the standard Hacker News feed and appends visual previews to each story, giving readers a thumbnail-style view of linked content before clicking through. No additional features or technical implementation details were described in the submission.
The creator framed the project as a personal itch: "I am just one of those who need some image stimulation while reading Hacker News," per the Show HN post. The tool is offered openly for anyone to use.
HN Mirror joins a small category of community-built Hacker News clients and mirrors — including Algolia's HN Search and various mobile apps — that layer different interfaces onto HN's public API or scrape its content. The core appeal is familiar: the standard HN interface is text-only and deliberately minimal, and developers have periodically built richer visual experiences around it.
The submission had 1 point and no comments at time of publication. No information about the builder's location, prior projects, or plans for the tool was included in the source material.
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