[natural_order]

The question is what will this newspaper do that HN doesn't. Perhaps an approach would be creating a friendly and attention grabbing wrapper for HN, one that shows "trending" stories and popular comments to greater effect. Positioning questions and showcases in their own spot to maximise interest.

Also bear in mind who you're making this for. The developer mindset may require page efficiency (size of text, number of features), while designers may value page effectiveness (pictures, layout).

[blcArmadillo]

I'd have to agree with everyone else on here that this probably wouldn't take off. Specifically with services like Flipbook coming out I don't see how even writing a HN wrapper would give you a real advantage.

[jaz]

Hacker Monthly is basically an HN wrapper, and seems to be doing well - 5,000 subscribers as of a few months ago[2].

[1] http://hackermonthly.com/ [2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2445314