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Comment by txxxxd | Hacker News Reader

It's much much faster than loading and rendering the html, images, and ads on the actual sites.

I can zoom through articles pressing the left/right arrows with no perceptible latency.

Unless I am totally missing something you can't actually read the content without clicking on it. Is there much value in seeing an unreadably small thumbnail of a site before you choose to click on it? I suppose on mobile devices it might work. Loading a small blurry thumbnail could save you the time it takes to load the full page. If it indexed all of Google's searches it would be pretty neat. Previewing thumbnails could save a lot of time wasted on obviously bad results. Maybe that's where this is heading in the future. If not it's really pointless on anything other than a mobile device IMO.

A lot of people seem to be missing this: clicking on a thumbnail gets you a full-size image of the article in Fast Flip, it does not send you to the original site. You're not expected to read the content from the thumbnails, you select your first article from the list of thumbnails and then fast flip between the full screen versions.

That makes a lot more sense but it unfortunately is not working on my browser. Clicking on a thumbnail does nothing. Probably a bug with WebKit nightlies I guess.

This is especially true for mobile devices with limited bandwidth.- http://fastflip.googlelabs.com/mobile

Grr at lack of Blackberry support. I feel like I own a neglected step-phone.

I can't even read the headlines on many of the thumbnails...

Why use this instead of google reader?

10,000 unread articles.

Who tell you to read all 10,000 unread items ?

Google Reader is slow and not very efficient when you have a lot of subscriptions but unread articles is not its problem. IMO Google Reader's home page can be improved more than just displaying new articles. It could display most read, most recommended articles etc ... from your feeds.

You mean, it could combine search with rapid preview?

Oh, wait.

> 1000+ unread articles

FTFY.

Never thought we were going to see prerendering of webpages :)

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