Show HN: Wikihack – HackerTube, but for Wikipedia articles mentioned on HN (wikihack.netlify.app)
After seeing Karpathy's Hackertube and Hackerbooks, I just had to make Wikihack.
I scraped all mentions of wikipedia on hackernews and ranked them, and turn them into a scrollable feed to make it a bit more easy to digest / interact with. You can see where people submitted the articles and where people mentioned it in comments.
The top shows the most frequently linked articles.
Random is random but slightly weighted towards the more frequently linked articles (a little bit like Wikipedia actually).
Rising is ranked towards the past 12 months.
The entire site is served only through the frontend -- I'll add more features if people enjoy this!
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[ 5.0 ms ] story [ 56.7 ms ] threadFor wikitok, I made it take up the entire screen, but for this project I felt that having the comments was a core part of the experience so it's better to have them both side by side to get context, so the mobile-like layout wins.
Obviously the dropbox comment would be the most cited. But I wonder what number two would be
https://news.ycombinator.com/ask
You mean this[0]?
0 https://hnarcade.com
What a sad dystopian future...
( I read my own past comments several times. Brrrr )
https://wikihack.netlify.app/feed/top
If someone doesnt care enough to invest $3.00 in their project I'm not going to use it.
On more than one occasion a friend has sent me a netlify link asking for my opinion on a business or product and Ive replied that its a throwaway project.
I guess those last two are actually being used for something. But it kind of bothered me you know. Like if someone bought all the land in your city and then just left it empty. (Actually that sounds kind of nice... Bad example :)
You can register any free domain, it is better than having the project at Netlify, Vercel, ChatGPT, lovable, or any other domain - those domains are vendor-locks.
I get it: HN people give generally good recommendations to the HN crowd.
Next up: Hacker Games, Hacker Niche Social Media sites, Hacker Enterpreneurship blogs, Hacker Art, Hacker Instagram Channels To Follow.
Bundle it and call it: Hacker Index or something ;-)
Hacker Blogs: https://popularity.refactoringenglish.com/
HN Hall of Fame: https://www.orangecrumbs.com/hall/
HN Top Charts: https://hn-summary.github.io/
If it has been it will be, it if has been done it will be done.
Uncle John's Hacker Quarterly: Its just the amusing anecdotes collected from the comments
Hacker's Digest: Just a collection of meta-posts that are collections of other HN content
I suspect that this fad will die out when LLM capabilities are no longer as exciting.
I'm just here to make a fun little website to pass the time it's not that deep.
I’d appreciate if the site didn’t hijack my scroll wheel though. It currently doesn’t let me scroll through the page at my own speed, which is super annoying, plus it hides any scroll bar (which would have served as my escape hatch for scrolling).
Most browsers have a "stop loading" button.
Why don't we have a "stop JavaScript" button?
https://console.cloud.google.com/marketplace/product/y-combi...
Clickhouse equivalent, updated in real-time: https://play.clickhouse.com/play?user=play#U0VMRUNUIG1heCh0a...
Relevant post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40644563
What's missing are entity-level extracted data, and embeddings.
Such a sad state of affairs.. holding end user's data hostage.
It also reminds me of the Onion article "Sumerians Look On in Confusion as God Creates World".
https://theonion.com/sumerians-look-on-in-confusion-as-god-c...
Sadly, convenience always wins, and most people need a better reason to "switch platforms" (which is, ironically, what moving your socials to atproto/fedi means). Together with the dismal state of general education on digital independence, such revolutions just won't happen for the overwhelming majority of internet users. The lack of GPG usage is a common example, but people don't even own their email domains :)