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Show HN: Akedo – Retro gaming and coding platform
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Show HN: Unclutter — A new approach to reader mode
Hey! This is a reader mode browser extension I built that hides noisy page elements rather than extracting and re-rendering only the page text. The idea is to not make all articles look the same [0], have them still render graphs, and ideally to work in more cases.<p>There are a few "tricks": patching the site CSSOM to apply simpler mobile styles even at desktop width, detecting the likely main text & removing its non-text siblings, blocklists for classnames that contain words like "sidebar", and testing this on a few hundred popular sites.<p>I got carried away and also added a dark mode, page outlines, private annotations & inline Hacker News comments. The last feature works by parsing every top-level HN comment with a quote in it (formatted with > or "") within a few minutes, and anchoring these quotes in the related article HTML. So when you click a link on HN you’ll see the parts people are talking about while reading. [1]<p>The code is all on GitHub!<p>[0] Screenshots comparing it to the Firefox reader mode: <a href="https://github.com/lindylearn/unclutter/blob/main/docs/comparison.md" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/lindylearn/unclutter/blob/main/docs/compa...</a><p>[1] It's fun to try this on some of the "HN classics" that got 30+ quote comments over the years. Another project I built, <a href="https://hn.lindylearn.io/best" rel="nofollow">https://hn.lindylearn.io/best</a> shows the number of "annotations" an article has beneath its title.
Show HN: Unclutter — A new approach to reader mode
Hey! This is a reader mode browser extension I built that hides noisy page elements rather than extracting and re-rendering only the page text. The idea is to not make all articles look the same [0], have them still render graphs, and ideally to work in more cases.<p>There are a few "tricks": patching the site CSSOM to apply simpler mobile styles even at desktop width, detecting the likely main text & removing its non-text siblings, blocklists for classnames that contain words like "sidebar", and testing this on a few hundred popular sites.<p>I got carried away and also added a dark mode, page outlines, private annotations & inline Hacker News comments. The last feature works by parsing every top-level HN comment with a quote in it (formatted with > or "") within a few minutes, and anchoring these quotes in the related article HTML. So when you click a link on HN you’ll see the parts people are talking about while reading. [1]<p>The code is all on GitHub!<p>[0] Screenshots comparing it to the Firefox reader mode: <a href="https://github.com/lindylearn/unclutter/blob/main/docs/comparison.md" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/lindylearn/unclutter/blob/main/docs/compa...</a><p>[1] It's fun to try this on some of the "HN classics" that got 30+ quote comments over the years. Another project I built, <a href="https://hn.lindylearn.io/best" rel="nofollow">https://hn.lindylearn.io/best</a> shows the number of "annotations" an article has beneath its title.
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