Show HN: Readability for web and PDFs with TTS and local AI summary
Readability Reader A private, local-first reader for articles and PDFs with AI summaries and natural text-to-speech. What it does Readability Reader is a Manifest V3 browser extension for Chrome and Firefox. Click its toolbar button on an article or PDF to open the content in a quiet, responsive reading view.
- ▪Readability Reader A private, local-first reader for articles and PDFs with AI summaries and natural text-to-speech.
- ▪What it does Readability Reader is a Manifest V3 browser extension for Chrome and Firefox.
- ▪Click its toolbar button on an article or PDF to open the content in a quiet, responsive reading view.
Hacker News (Show HN) files mainly under programming. We currently carry 68 of its stories.
Story provenance
Source · retrieval · rights · ranking — open for full record
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Story provenance
Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
Record
| Original publisher | GitHub |
| Canonical URL | https://github.com/ldenoue/readability-read-aloud-web-pdf-ai-summary |
| Publication time | Sun, 26 Jul 2026 18:18:42 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-07-26T18:28:15.558Z |
| Last seen | 2026-07-26T18:28:15.558Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | p3PWezWaKHcZ |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
Readability Reader A private, local-first reader for articles and PDFs with AI summaries and natural text-to-speech. What it does Readability Reader is a Manifest V3 browser extension for Chrome and Firefox. Click its toolbar button on an article or PDF to open the content in a quiet, responsive reading view. Extracts article content locally with Mozilla Readability. Converts PDFs locally with PDF.js and preserves their text hierarchy and reading order. Detects PDF text, headings, pictures, tables, and formulas with a bundled DocLayNet layout model. Converts detected formulas to LaTeX locally and renders them with KaTeX. Produces concise on-device summaries with the browser's built-in Summarizer API when available.
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at GitHub.