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		sjdz on Sept 8, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: I made a modern web UI for Hacker News There's some overhead, but not much. It basically just parses the underlying HTML as soon as it's loaded, then redraws it with added features. Also no heavy frameworks used, just basic hand-coded JS + jquery + a few helper libraries (luxon for dates etc)

topaz0 on Sept 8, 2022 [–]

The post was about efficiency for the user, not for the computer.

sjdz on Sept 9, 2022 | [–]

Yeah I missed that, first thought was efficient performance!

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