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Frank Groeneveld

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Frank Groeneveld writes Frank’s blog, a personal blog at frankgroeneveld.nl about systems and programming. Since 2014, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “The most underused browser feature: reader mode”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.

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12mentions?
3HN people?
2014–2022first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 5 in 2014

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

The only comment is a discussion of the idea of converting HTML to SVG to save bandwidth, citing a related project. It says nothing about the writing itself, so the posts appear to be about forking Chrome to render HTML as SVG.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Most-linked posts?

  1. The most underused browser feature: reader mode
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-08-24

What Hacker News says?

  1. mrkramer · 2022-11-13
    That would be cool if actually converting HTML to SVG would save you bandwidth and all the rest that goes with web requests. Imagine a web browser that only supports SVG and converts all HTML to SVG then when browsing the web you would only look at screenshots of websites and webpages. This would be something like read-only browser. It is already possible[0] tho but it is not enabled by default on Chrome nor it is e…

    Comment linking /2021/08/24/most-underused-browser-feature/

    on “Forking Chrome to turn HTML into SVG”
  2. frenkel · 2021-08-24

    Submitted The most underused browser feature: reader mode as a story · 882 points

    HN discussion
  3. frenkel · 2014-03-23

    Submitted Basic Concepts of High Availability Linux as a story · 101 points

    HN discussion
  4. frenkel · 2014-03-16

    Submitted No Need for RVM or Rbenv on OpenBSD as a story · 25 points

    HN discussion
  5. frenkel · 2021-04-28

    Submitted My First Month as a Solo Founder as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  6. thunderbong · 2021-05-27

    Submitted My Favorite Ruby Gems as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  7. frenkel · 2021-04-15

    Submitted Generating unique invoice numbers in Ruby on Rails as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  8. frenkel · 2014-03-30

    Submitted Pro Pupppet Second Edition Review as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  9. frenkel · 2021-02-05

    Submitted Choosing a Rails JSON serializer for your API in 2021 as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  10. frenkel · 2015-08-16

    Submitted Configuring L2TP Over IPSec on OpenBSD for Mac OS X Clients as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  11. frenkel · 2014-04-27

    Submitted Fighting Spam With OpenBSD's Spamd(8) as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  12. frenkel · 2014-04-13

    Submitted Remote Installation of OpenBSD From Linux as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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