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sunnylemonon DaScript – high-performance statically strong typed scripting language (2019)

Yup! It looks for paragraphs that are at least 140 characters long. I wrote about it a bit more here: https://videoinu.com/blog/firefox-reader-view-heuristics

sunnylemonon Ask HN: Flightradar24 on iOS knew my location without having access to it

Wifi hotspot SSID?

sunnylemonon Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform

I actually just wrote a blog post about this topic: https://videoinu.com/blog/firefox-reader-view-heuristics

In a nutshell, the paragraphs (<p> tags) do not contain enough text to contribute to the readability score. Reader view heuristics rewards paragraphs of at least 140 characters.

sunnylemonon Instance-Aware Image Colorization

Very cool. I wonder how skin color is handled in algorithms like these.