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Unclutter — Reader Mode for Chrome & Firefox
Unclutter is a browser extension for Chrome and Firefox that strips articles to readable format, blocks ads, saves highlights, and manages a read-it-later list. A cleaner, more integrated alternative to Pocket or Instapaper.
KTool: Send Anything to Kindle
KTool sends web articles, blog posts, and newsletters to your Kindle — a simple send-to-Kindle service that extends the long-read experience to arbitrary web content. Useful for anyone who reads better on e-ink than on a screen.
The StoryGraph — Goodreads Alternative
StoryGraph is a Goodreads alternative built by a Black founder that focuses on mood-based book recommendations and detailed reading stats. It's privacy-respecting, ad-free, and adds reading pace, mood tagging, and pace tracking that Goodreads never bothered building.
kindleServer: Serve Local Files to Kindle
kindleServer serves local HTML files with a Kindle-friendly UI and a Read Mode powered by ReadabiliPy — a simple self-hosted solution for reading long-form web content on a Kindle without relying on Pocket or Send to Kindle.
Slow Hacker News
Slow HN surfaces Hacker News stories that are worth reading but don't get front-page velocity — filtering for quality over recency. An antidote to the attention-grabbing noise of the standard HN front page.
Readwise
Readwise resurfaces your Kindle highlights, article saves, and book notes via daily email review using spaced repetition. Solves the highlight graveyard problem — where you underline everything and remember nothing.
Hacker News Books
Hacker News Books extracts and ranks book recommendations from HN comments — a crowd-sourced reading list from technically sophisticated readers. Useful for finding what books the HN community actually recommends, beyond bestseller lists.
Marc Andreessen on Productivity, Scheduling, and Reading Habits
Marc Andreessen on his productivity system — no schedule, reading voraciously and broadly, and operating in a pure reactive mode to maximize serendipity. Counterintuitive for most but coherent for his specific role.
A Great Hacker News iOS App
The Next Web reviewed a Hacker News iOS app (likely Hacker News by Reeder author or similar) that took design cues from Instapaper — clean reading-focused UI, offline support. A 2012 snapshot of the iOS app ecosystem maturing around content aggregators.