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Hypothesis
Company blog · hypothes.is/blog · on HN as dwhlywebproductivity
Hypothesis is the company blog at hypothes.is, writing about web and productivity. Since 2011, 86 different Hacker News readers have linked it 117 times, most often “Hypothes.is: an open platform for scholarly discussion on the web”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-21, and you can follow it by feed.
Sometimes recommended · 10 of 40 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Hypothesis, an open-source web annotation project, for annotating any URL or PDF, for collaborative notes and highlights, and as an implementation of the W3C Web Annotation standard.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 40 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Hypothesis is the leading social annotation platform trusted by 300+ institutions to boost student engagement, comprehension, and critical thinking — seamlessly integrated into your LMS.
Most-linked posts?
- Hypothes.is: an open platform for scholarly discussion on the web28 people · 32 mentions · first linked 2014-11-06
- /19 people · 20 mentions · first linked 2015-07-23
- Hypothes.is - social sentence-level annotation of the Web, with Kickstarter17 people · 20 mentions · first linked 2011-10-21
- /10 people · 10 mentions · first linked 2012-05-13
- A Coalition on Annotating Scholarship4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2015-12-01
- Annotation is now a web standard4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2017-02-25
- The Internet, peer reviewed.2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-10-21
- /blog/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-12-02
- Code review in remote teams2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-11-30
What Hacker News says?
I think a better approach would be to use annotations on the current AWS docs so that additional information is inline with the official documentation so you have both in the same place. The Hypothesis project is working on such a browser plugin that does this for example and is having success with academic research already. https://hypothes.is/
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on “Open Guide to Amazon Web Services”Submitted Annotation is now a web standard as a story · 627 points
HN discussionIndeed, this is a decentralised problem in need of a decentralised solution. Also relevant are https://hypothes.is/ and IPFS.
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on “Facebook to ban white nationalist content”Submitted Hypothes.is: an open platform for scholarly discussion on the web as a story · 68 points
HN discussionhttps://hypothes.is supports threaded comments on anything with a URI; including PDFs and specific sentences or figures thereof. All you have to do is register an account and install the browser extension or include the JS in the HTML. It's based on open standards and an open platform. W3C Web Annotations: http://w3.org/annotation About Hypothesis: https://web.hypothes.is/about/
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on “Time to break academic publishing's stranglehold on research”Submitted Credibility evaluation open-sourced as a story · 10 points
HN discussionhttps://rolandog.com I had taken it down, but — as I'm learning everything Emacs — I'm in the middle of recreating it with project.el and org-mode... comments be damned... So, there's very little of value at the moment. However, I've been thinking about inviting people to add annotations with https://hypothes.is
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on “Ask HN: Share your personal site”Submitted Hypothes.is - social sentence-level annotation of the Web, with Kickstarter as a story · 8 points
HN discussionThis is such a great project. The potential here is just immense. I wish dwhly and everyone at hypothes.is the best of luck. P.S. This url - https://hypothes.is/register - accessible from most pages by clicking "sign up" in the top-right corner, presents an error and doesn't redirect anywhere. https://hypothes.is/signup works fine, however.
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on “Annotation is now a web standard”Submitted A Coalition on Annotating Scholarship as a story · 6 points
HN discussion> The blog post is put out by a company I've never heard of, and the credits listed on it include nobody who works on a browser… By the way, the Genius team is backed by Marc Andreessen. While Genius and Hypothesis aren't formally related, the two annotation products are very similar just for different audiences. Tim Berners-Lee is even featured in the video at the end of the post. This is kind of a crazy comment to…
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on “Annotation is now a web standard”Submitted Annotation is now a web standard as a story · 4 points
HN discussionWe agree that this is an issue that deserves attention. We've discussed it here. https://hypothes.is/blog/involving-page-owners-in-annotation...
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on “Annotation is now a web standard”Submitted Annotate with anyone, anywhere as a story · 4 points
HN discussionOur implementation at Hypothesis uses a robust anchoring approach we call Fuzzy Anchoring. https://hypothes.is/blog/fuzzy-anchoring/
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on “Annotation is now a web standard”Submitted Cross Format Annotation as a story · 4 points
HN discussionIn terms of controlling for trolls/spam, etc annotation service providers will need to use the same combination of automatic filtering and editorial or community moderation that are relied on widely elsewhere. The success of any individual service will presumably at least partly depend on how good of a job they do. Ultimately annotation is something that readers choose to enable by adding to their browser, and by ch…
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on “Annotation is now a web standard”Submitted Code Review in Remote Reams as a story · 3 points
HN discussionJournals and publishers should start focusing on creating value out of their community: the authors and readers they've attracted. http://hypothes.is/ is a nonprofit that makes annotation tech that some are using to publish peer-reviews, not just the article. I think that's pretty cool. Give the content away for free (you have to/should), but focus on having the best community around it.
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on “We've failed: open access is winning and we must change our approach”Submitted Code review in remote teams as a story · 3 points
HN discussion> I wish there was some kind of service or plugin (preferably not based on a centralized service) where one could easily leave comments on any site even if the site itself did not support comments. Not exactly for comments, but look at https://hypothes.is it is for collaborative note taking
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on “Disqus, a dark commenting system”Submitted Annotating All Knowledge as a story · 3 points
HN discussionIt was just a few days ago when I mentioned how often I see the dragon book held up as a punching bag. It seems that at some point the book, along with K&R, have become the target for unsubstantiated criticism. I've pressed for details, and I've seen others do the same, but it never ends in anything concrete—just an implicit appeal to the new conventional wisdom that they do more harm than good. Reminds me of how "t…
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on “Turing Award goes to Aho and Ullman”Submitted Hypothes.is Launches as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThe reason why Wikipedia has these pages is because people push fringe science theories, jingoist distortions of history, and inflated product claims if you do not. Even so, Wikipedia is effectively used to promote just these things. For example, the editor FT2 got promoted to ArbCom while underming efforts to eliminate pseudoscience. His philsophy he summed up "Writing for an encyclopedia is not the same as writing…
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on “The Closed, Unfriendly World of Wikipedia”Submitted What is hypothes.is? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionoutline.com is cool. Did not know about this service. It seems it uses https://hypothes.is/ (btw. open source) for annotations too. Cool.
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on “I tried to buy an actual barrel of crude oil (2015)”Submitted User-curated annotation of knowledge as a story · 3 points
HN discussionHow's your side project differ from https://hypothes.is , and how come it's not possible to highlight parts of another highlighted piece of text? Good job for following the W3C Annotation standard!
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on “Ask HN: What are you working on?”Submitted Ask HN: Are bookmarklets really dead? as a story · 2 points
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