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Products that do what Low-Distraction Wikipedia Mirror does
THIS IS PRIMARILY A DESKTOP EXPERIENCE. It kinda works on mobile, but it's not nearly as thought through. https://encyclopedia.marginalia.nu/article/Hacker_News This is a re-implementation of a thing I was experimenting with a few years ago earlier. I find the blue links of Wikipedia very distracting, and my attention starts skipping around when I read text that is busy like that. Gone are inline links, footnotes, most references, many tables, all images. I removed all the distractions on a what-if basis. I've also experimented with designing the encyclopedia around…
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2014 · justread.mpgarate.com
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2013 · github.com
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Recently i stumbled on too many clickgates on the Medium blog Towards Data science. Considering that most people publish to share knowledge on Medium and are driven into putting their content behind a paywall, without actually getting paid for it, including myself. I felt like Medium is running the academic publishing scheme. Get free content and get paid for it. So I decided to create a small script to bypass the paywall on Medium, it turns out it also works on other newssites. Heres the website: https://sugoidesune.github.io/readium/ For the curious I will explain the…
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2018 · thereaderwiki.com
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2015 · cosmiclattes.github.io
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Hey HN community, there are a couple of websites I visit on a daily basis. I type the first two oder three characters of the url and the autocomplete feature of my browser does the rest. That is also how I procrastinate. It happens that i visit the same website over and over again without that there is really new content on that site. Or on the other side it happens that I forget to visit a certain site for some days. To address all this I build the following website: https://everyday-favs.com The idea is: you have one personal link (1) and define a list of websites and how often…
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Hey HN, the full story is on the page, but here's the TL;DR: I'm 35 and somewhere along the way I lost the ability to finish reading articles. I'd open them, read 2-3 paragraphs, get distracted, and close the tab feeling like a failure. My "Read Later" list became a graveyard of 2,000+ unread articles. I tried everything – focus apps, reader modes, blocking extensions. Nothing worked. Then I realized. 'maybe the problem isn't me'. Modern web articles are designed for engagement metrics, not comprehension. Sidebars, popups, related articles, comment sections – everything is optimized to pull…
Jan 2026 · parsely.obasic.app
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Hey everyone! I built a little app for exploring Wikipedia. https://atlaslib.com/wikipedia You can tap on a suggestion or ask anything. Why? Wikipedia is awesome but search on Wikipedia unfortunately is not. I often use Google to search Wikipedia but I wondered if there is a more direct way. Some of the huge Wikipedia articles (e.g. animals, biology, history, health, science) are thorough but a bit dry. A language model like llama 3 70b helps with both: discovery and with making a dry topic more approachable. behind the scenes: - client: 150 lines vanilla javascript, tailwind…
2024 · atlaslib.com
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2022 · wikistroll.com
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