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Show HN: Rabbit Holes (rabbitholes.wiki)

43 points by amanmathur ↗ HN
Built a way to spatially explore wikipedia topics!

Enter a topic of your choice and dig into the rabbit hole. All content is from Wikipedia—related topics are generated with GPT based on the summary.

Spacebar to expand a topic inline, arrow keys to move around, and "J" to open journey view!

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thomascountz
This is a cool idea and is fun to explore. It would be cool to be able to revisit a page/topic via the journey view. (Perhaps you can, but I'm unable to on Firefox iOS). I think it's interesting that each time I revisit a topic, I might be given a different set of choices; leading me down a different branch. Thanks for sharing!
robbles
I opened this on a mobile device, and it only shows the top and bottom topic buttons. I was pretty confused until I tried turning on "desktop site" in Chrome and saw the left/right buttons. Having only a linear track of topics kind of undermines the overall idea!
amanmathur
yeah was originally a way to keep mobile more constrained and usable -- but definitely isn't as fun. Will add 4 directions back in on mobile :)
g-adamante
I like the concept! I don't like the wall of text. It's hard to concentrate / parse what's in the text box. Keep working on it, it has potential.
amanmathur
can present the text in a more readable way, thanks for the feedback!
piyushtechsavy
Cool idea, however I feel the linked topics are pretty narrow and may not be very related. It could be more like a map.
cobertos
So is down "deeper" into the rabbit hole? Or is down more specific and up is more general? Or is it just a related topic (meaning up and down aren't different in any way)?
amanmathur
right now they're all random topics, but thinking about adding meaning to the directions in next iteration
dimal
Cool idea. I’d suggest a few tweaks to improve text formatting. Justified text generally doesn’t read well on a device. Better to justify left. And paragraph breaks seem to be lost, which makes it harder to read and scan.
rickcarlino
Would be fun if it had a language selector.
samstave
"All wikipedia entries lead to philosophy:

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=wikipedia+always+leads+to+p...

https://old.reddit.com/r/philosophy/comments/iqatv/wikipedia...

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Did any of this come up for you when you built this?

Is this a rabbit hole

https://i.imgur.com/PDjVH2J.png

But the UI is neat -- but it REALLY needs a minimap in the corner that will give me the path of my Rabbit's Warren.

https://i.imgur.com/E0WpuQU.png

Also navigate by WSAD like Bards Tale - and walk through the concept map with keyboard.

vintagedave
Great idea. Your site may have been hugged to death, but if it's supposed to be working now, please check on Safari: viewing a topic shows a blank scrollable rectangle where there should be article text, and not much else.

I second another commenter's idea of a minimap: let's visually build the rabbit warren! Just like this:

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Rabbit-warren-with-entra...

bhargav
Love this concept but I wish it did not pick topics that were so "distant" from the current topic.

Initial topic: Pizza Recommended nodes: Pizzerias, Italian cuisine, Woodfired Ovens, Neapolitan Pizzas

At L1, I'd expect more of the last, such as type of pizza.