Show HN: I took back Video.js after 16 years and we rewrote it to be 88% smaller

Re:Show HN: I took back Video.js after 16 years and we rewro... by QuantumGood on Wednesday March 25, 2026 @01:20PM (#47520363)

Part of what makes AI useful to me is getting though the layers of "what the hell is this, exactly" that slow you down when you jump more than one level beyond your domain knowledge. I think every knowledge container (document, website, what have you) should have a "what the hell is this" link /rich tooltip /accordion section /whatever by default.

Of course, AI explanations often also fail at this unless you give them "ELI5" or other relevant prompting (I'm looking at you Perplexity).

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Re:Show HN: I took back Video.js after 16 years and we rewro... by phist_mcgee on Wednesday March 25, 2026 @05:56PM (#47523824)

I love a github repo's readme.md that only uses jargon and contains no intro paragraph on what the thing is or how it is to be used.

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Re:Show HN: I took back Video.js after 16 years and we rewro... by ramon156 on Thursday March 26, 2026 @03:15AM (#47527501)

Or it prints out the whole Stack, LOC, proj structure, like its in any way useful to me.

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