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Re:Show HN: The load-bearing vocabulary of Claude by black_rabbit_ on Thursday August 27, 2026 @06:33PM (#49472147)
You did a fantastic job; very to-the-point with effective visualisations. Kudos!

One very minor note: if your scroll device reports pixel-perfect deltas rather than discrete scroll-wheel ticks (e.g. logitech mx master, laptop touchpad, etc), the behaviour in the word search box is a bit weird. Arrow keys work fine though.

Re:Show HN: The load-bearing vocabulary of Claude by Labo333 on Thursday August 27, 2026 @08:08PM (#49472834)
Thank you!

I did test it with my mac touchpad without issue. Maybe the problem is that I wanted to make discrete scroll-wheel ticks work. I just tried a fix by normalising deltaMode to pixels.

If you could just paste this in your console, I would have a better idea:

    document.querySelector('.wall').addEventListener('wheel', e =>
      console.log(e.deltaMode, e.deltaY.toFixed(2), e.defaultPrevented ? 'PAGE' : 'native'), true)
Re:Show HN: The load-bearing vocabulary of Claude by customguy on Friday August 28, 2026 @01:30AM (#49474705)
FWIW I got a bunch of "(-)10.00 native" in the console, "PAGE" never showed up no matter what I tried. Firefox, also a Logitech mouse, no trackpad though.
Re:Show HN: The load-bearing vocabulary of Claude by imp0cat on Friday August 28, 2026 @01:12AM (#49474591)
On a compatible Logitech device, browsing through the word search box benefits a lot from enabling hyperscroll.
Re:Show HN: The load-bearing vocabulary of Claude by Labo333 on Friday August 28, 2026 @02:07AM (#49474911)
G502 user here! I also put a draggable scrollbar for the less lucky :)
Re:Show HN: The load-bearing vocabulary of Claude by imp0cat on Friday August 28, 2026 @08:30AM (#49477584)
> Some believe what separates men from animals is our ability to reason. Others say it’s language or romantic love, or opposable thumbs. Living here in this lost world, I’ve come to believe it is more than our biology. What truly makes us human is our ability to hyperscroll!

> Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World

Re:Show HN: The load-bearing vocabulary of Claude by wafflemaker on Friday August 28, 2026 @09:15AM (#49478029)
For those who didn't know (like me 5 min ago):

Hyperscroll - special mode turned on with a button next to scroll that turns off scroll friction and let's you scroll into infinity (wheel keeps turning after you lift your finger).

Re:Show HN: The load-bearing vocabulary of Claude by imp0cat on Friday August 28, 2026 @02:41PM (#49482697)
Yeah, it takes some getting used to (the wheel is VERY sensitive to even the smallest finger movements), but when you get used to it, it's clearly superior to a regular scrollwheel. Much less finger fatique.