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Comment by btmorex | Hacker News Reader

For some reason on page 2 some javascript kept scrolling the page all the way down like every 20 seconds... so annoying. I ended up copying the text to a text editor.

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You should really try readability:

http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/

It make reading articles on the web much nicer.

Wow. I didn't know this existed. You sir have made my life better today. Thank you.

Or Instapaper. I can't read on most news sites anymore for all the crap they put on there.

Or Opera's builtin accessibility layout.

I love this. Thank you.

Or the Reader feature in Safari.

It's the disqus real time update feature - click Pause below the comments box.

Why should I have to pause the comment auto-updater just so that I can finish reading the article?

Yeah, at first I thought it was Chrome's AutoPager plugin, but even after I disabled it, same thing happened. I had to resort to the print-friendly view.

I had the same problem and then I switched on Safari's Reader feature -- problem solved.

Same, I was holding the scrollbar with my mouse's left button down to prevent that!

Yeah, I thought I was dreaming at first like I was on some spam site that was trying to take me to the ad. As far as the article goes, very interesting to get into the psyche of someone whose blogs we read on a continuous basis. Whether you love him or hate him, humanizing people always helps break the online barrier.

Yes-- that was another annoying thing that I didn't mention.

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