Its laggy on mobile

Way too much spacing between comments.

It’s many times better, but the original website is so mediocre that any implementation is better at something, at least. I’m getting a good laugh reading all this ‘the original is so good’ praises. Just increase the font sizes on mobile and see how it’s broken.

I don’t think this is better. Mind you I opened this on my phone.

Overall there is too little space for the titles and the space there is, is given to the branding of the source, so favicon and domain.

I believe the focus should be the content. The hn community overall is quite good at filtering out the nonsense, so if you go to the homepage there will be quality content and having to filter out based on source is not necessary for me.

The approach taken in your design is similar to a search engine where filtering on source credibility or appropriateness IS necessary.

While it looks “modern” I think your redesign proves that flash does not equal good UX