<story><title>Ask HN: What projects are you working on now?</title><text>With the quarantine being placed in effect in a lot of cities across the world, we all likely have a little bit more time to focus on personal projects or learning something new from the comfort of our homes. What are you guys up to these days?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>chdaniel</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m making a new tool for writers. With it, you&amp;#x27;ll be able to write your essays on &amp;quot;layers&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;The problem? Tweets are easier to read than long-form essays, as they require less time commitment. If the content is not good on a long-form article, you&amp;#x27;ll find out way too late. With this tool I&amp;#x27;m developing:&lt;p&gt;Layer 1 is the shortest version of your essay, the 1 min read — like a tweet. The idea boiled down to the shortest version&lt;p&gt;Layer 2 is the same text from layer 1, but with extras added here and there. What&amp;#x27;s already read by you is in black ink. What&amp;#x27;s new is in blue ink. This is the 2 min read version&lt;p&gt;Layer 3 shows everything from Layer 1 and 2 in black ink, but what&amp;#x27;s new is now in blue ink. and you keep doing that until you get to the full version.&lt;p&gt;I can post some screenshots here of my mockups, as I&amp;#x27;m a designer. PM me if you find this intriguing!&lt;p&gt;——&lt;p&gt;Edit: Since people are showing interest, here&amp;#x27;s how I see it happening — &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;invis.io&amp;#x2F;GQWINO2YKU2#&amp;#x2F;410298082_1_Min_Verison&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;invis.io&amp;#x2F;GQWINO2YKU2#&amp;#x2F;410298082_1_Min_Verison&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;The first thing that you see is the first layer (1 min version). Go right for 3 and 5 min version!&lt;p&gt;——&lt;p&gt;Edit 2: since I&amp;#x27;m seeing the upvotes and the emails, I quickly made this sign-up form for the people who want to be updated when the  product is done: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;layered-ink.webflow.io&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;layered-ink.webflow.io&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I would put up the &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;layered.ink&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;layered.ink&lt;/a&gt; link but the domain hasn&amp;#x27;t been propagated yet.&lt;p&gt;@Admins — please do let me know if this is not permitted so I can take it down. Apologies if so.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>keenmaster</author><text>Can anyone vertically scan 5 paragraphs of a long-form article in a 1-2 seconds and ambiently detect keywords that signal relevance? By ambient, I mean in your peripheral vision, without even knowing which word you&amp;#x27;re looking for or actively reading anything.&lt;p&gt;I acquired this &amp;quot;skill&amp;quot; about a year ago and now I use it when I suspect there may be filler text or introductions to concepts I already understand. I know it works because I uncannily land on interesting but otherwise nondescript passages. When I scroll back up I find that I did indeed skip the filler. Of course, this isn&amp;#x27;t voodoo or unprecedented. It&amp;#x27;s just funny that I&amp;#x27;ve read so much that my brain basically has a regression model for various semantic characteristics that signal novelty by subject area. I suspect I also switch into different modes of scanning based on the writing style detected.&lt;p&gt;Because of all that, I actually prefer no layering at all. Reuters articles are Layer 1 compressed and I find them annoyingly curt.</text></comment>
<story><title>Ask HN: What projects are you working on now?</title><text>With the quarantine being placed in effect in a lot of cities across the world, we all likely have a little bit more time to focus on personal projects or learning something new from the comfort of our homes. What are you guys up to these days?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>chdaniel</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m making a new tool for writers. With it, you&amp;#x27;ll be able to write your essays on &amp;quot;layers&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;The problem? Tweets are easier to read than long-form essays, as they require less time commitment. If the content is not good on a long-form article, you&amp;#x27;ll find out way too late. With this tool I&amp;#x27;m developing:&lt;p&gt;Layer 1 is the shortest version of your essay, the 1 min read — like a tweet. The idea boiled down to the shortest version&lt;p&gt;Layer 2 is the same text from layer 1, but with extras added here and there. What&amp;#x27;s already read by you is in black ink. What&amp;#x27;s new is in blue ink. This is the 2 min read version&lt;p&gt;Layer 3 shows everything from Layer 1 and 2 in black ink, but what&amp;#x27;s new is now in blue ink. and you keep doing that until you get to the full version.&lt;p&gt;I can post some screenshots here of my mockups, as I&amp;#x27;m a designer. PM me if you find this intriguing!&lt;p&gt;——&lt;p&gt;Edit: Since people are showing interest, here&amp;#x27;s how I see it happening — &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;invis.io&amp;#x2F;GQWINO2YKU2#&amp;#x2F;410298082_1_Min_Verison&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;invis.io&amp;#x2F;GQWINO2YKU2#&amp;#x2F;410298082_1_Min_Verison&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;The first thing that you see is the first layer (1 min version). Go right for 3 and 5 min version!&lt;p&gt;——&lt;p&gt;Edit 2: since I&amp;#x27;m seeing the upvotes and the emails, I quickly made this sign-up form for the people who want to be updated when the  product is done: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;layered-ink.webflow.io&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;layered-ink.webflow.io&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I would put up the &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;layered.ink&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;layered.ink&lt;/a&gt; link but the domain hasn&amp;#x27;t been propagated yet.&lt;p&gt;@Admins — please do let me know if this is not permitted so I can take it down. Apologies if so.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>StavrosK</author><text>I wrote something similar for HTML:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;skorokithakis.github.io&amp;#x2F;expounder&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;skorokithakis.github.io&amp;#x2F;expounder&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>