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An interface to scroll full-length articles or quickly skip to the next one, coupled with the TikTok algorithm to select pages that maximize the amount of time spent reading would be a fun time waster.

Couple that with a rudimentary "show me more of what I liked" and you could get versed on a lot of interesting topics quickly

Tie that down to an open source reccomendation algorithm that won't steer users deeper and deeper into paid political pages (unless the user wants it), and you've got yourself a win

This shows randomly selected summaries from English Wikipedia articles from a selection of 49652 articles that seem to be have been last crawled two years ago. [0]

[0] https://github.com/retrohacker/wikiscroll/blob/main/output/0...

I’m impressed by how fast I can scroll and never see it buffering.

Make it mobile-friendly and you’ll rule the world.

Nice one, I've been thinking about this for past months. Something like TikTok and new Twitter algorithm with infinite scrolling.

Now I can train myself the way the AIs do it

Text should definitely be larger on phones.

There is a height limitation on a dom element in browsers, so even if virtual scroll is working at some point there will be a problem :)

For information: the limit is above ten million pixels in all browsers, and containers that large are occasionally genuinely useful.

(See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34299569, among other places I’ve remarked on it. Note that that’s just testing the limits of declared CSS values; I haven’t tested whether you can obtain larger values by containing multiple large children rather than specifying an absolute height. Can’t find any place where I documented Chromium’s value for some reason, but it seems to be 11,184,809 pixels, five less than a third of WebKit’s value, with the same clamping behaviour.)

Can the language be changed?

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