Show HN: Wikihack – HackerTube, but for Wikipedia articles mentioned on HN

Posted by aizk 7 hours ago

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!

Comments

Comment by comboy 2 hours ago

I'll skip you guys some time, hackerstuff - all media links, entities and people mentioned on HN, weighted by posters karma.

We could even display them together sorted by the newest one, maybe with some associated comments.

Comment by Rapzid 1 hour ago

"HackerBait"

Comment by Hackbraten 3 hours ago

Cool project!

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).

Comment by loopmonster 1 hour ago

Every click of my mouse wheel takes me epilepsy-fast through about 10 articles.

Comment by freakynit 2 hours ago

We have a continuously updated, publicly accessible hackernews database in BigQuery, in case more of you folks are interested in building similar projects:

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.

Comment by vincnetas 1 hour ago

imagine having this open data for major social networks.

Comment by giladd 31 minutes ago

I'm pretty sure the AT protocol is meant to solve this. Not so sure that any of the big players in the social media industry are enthusiastic to use it, though.

Comment by freakynit 1 hour ago

We used to have.. at least it was not so heavily restricted.. and then AI happened, and everyone closed those down.

Such a sad state of affairs.. holding end user's data hostage.

Comment by thasso 5 hours ago

I would just love it if the front page were full of "Show HN: HackerFoo" posts for two weeks now.

Comment by xeyownt 1 hour ago

Then we must have a "Show HN: HackerHack", all the Hackerfoo sites mentionned on Hacker News.

Comment by defrost 5 hours ago

Show HN: Peak Passive Aggressive comments; flagged, dead, and eerily popular !

Comment by emaro 4 hours ago

I mean the hype cycles usually don't last that long anymore these days? It will get old by Friday.

Comment by moehm 2 hours ago

Hey, nice, I built roughly the same during the covid era pre AI.

https://www.mostdiscussed.com/

Comment by bawis 2 hours ago

These "Hackerfoo" posts are just getting better and better, thanks.

Comment by sixtyj 5 hours ago

Pls buy some nice domain for project and then we can talk :). I am a bit tired to bookmark a project that disappears in few weeks when traffic via Netlify grows and isn’t free anymore…

Comment by ShinyLeftPad 4 hours ago

There's so many dead domains though.

Comment by andai 25 minutes ago

A little while ago I was looking for a domain for a project. I spent like 12 hour straight trying out different names. Not a single one was actually being used! Almost all of them were domains for sale (average price like 10K). A bunch of them were registered but server didn't respond. One was a blank page. And one was a company intranet.

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 :)

Comment by lifeisloving 4 hours ago

I mean, Im probably never going to bookmark a netlify url. A domain cost $3.00.

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.

Comment by ShinyLeftPad 1 hour ago

Who bookmarks things these days?

Comment by darkwater 3 hours ago

Where? I had a xyz for a few bucks in PorkBun and it just renewed for 15$ now. Also, a domain is an ongoing expense.

Comment by inbx0 2 hours ago

Just let it expire and then buy the same one as "new" on sale again! /s

Comment by komali2 3 hours ago

Especially because you could just buy your name as a domain, then put all your projects as subdomains off it. I have like, a billion projects off my co-op's subdomain, which costs us, idk, a hundred bucks a year?

Comment by alcomatt 4 hours ago

Let's raise the bar. Create HackerDump - it's like HackerNews but only shows the articles you read in the toilet...

Comment by morkalork 6 minutes ago

Dr Bronner's Hacker: All the long wall-of-text posts

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

Comment by julenx 4 hours ago

Great job! As a little suggestion, it'd be great if this could also process non-English Wikipedia articles, because some niche (usually culture-specific) topics do not exist in English Wikipedia, and I believe there is quite a bit of value in exposing these.

Comment by nomilk 5 hours ago

I like that it links to the actual HN comments (I don't think Karpathy's yt equivalent did that), and tbh I enjoy reading the context in which articles/videos are mentioned as much (or more) than the articles/videos themselves.

Comment by defrost 5 hours ago

Click through on HackerTube took you from thumbnail wall to a specific video summary with AI context summary and links to user comments.

( I read my own past comments several times. Brrrr )

Comment by nomilk 5 hours ago

Thank you I see them now. Since I enjoy reading the HN comments more than (and often prior to) the video itself, I'd love the comments to be on hover or sidebar (like Wikihack) on the main page so I can use them to decide whether to invest time on the video.

Comment by LoganDark 3 hours ago

One video may have been linked to in multiple comments, which is why each comment that links to the video is enumerated under the video.

Comment by enoch2090 3 hours ago

Coming soon: HackerHacker, HackerX, HackerGitHub, HackerAliExpress and HackerP*nHub!

Comment by davidzweig 3 hours ago

well I made this for Reddit and HN:

https://www.trustmebro.reviews/

Comment by freakynit 2 hours ago

This is a goldmine. Holy!!!

Comment by davidzweig 2 hours ago

The travel opinions on a map are pretty neat: https://www.trustmebro.reviews/c/travel?view=map

I made new submission here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50333280

Comment by freakynit 1 hour ago

Woah.. I absolutely love the design.. and its so so fast! I hope more people know about this site. Truly incredible work.

Comment by davidzweig 37 minutes ago

Well thank Claude mostly. :)

It's actually pretty hard to post links about it: AI project collects product opinions with AI, so, Reddit posts mostly got flagged.

Comment by felixyz 2 hours ago

Incredibly useful!

Comment by enoch2090 3 hours ago

But seriously, please don't burn any more tokens to make any of these real

Comment by snarfy 1 hour ago

All the "Hackernews but for X" posts want me to make one for games.

Except it would just be as link to Factorio

Comment by jlpMurugesh 2 hours ago

Doesn't it seem like there's less diff b/w 'HackerNews' and 'WikiHack'. It provides less value compared to HackerTube, HackerBoom imo.

Comment by Rapzid 1 hour ago

Show HN: HackerJacks – HackerTube, but for mentions of well-known Jacks

Pumpkin Jack, Jack Dorsey, Cracker Jack, jackoffs, and more!

Comment by mettamage 4 hours ago

Can someone just gather up all the media types that HN recommends and put them in one collection?

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 ;-)

Comment by bawis 2 hours ago

Hacker Games: https://hnarcade.com/

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.

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Comment by lofties 3 hours ago

Show HN: Hacker News - HackerTube, but for articles posted on HN.

Comment by Rapzid 1 hour ago

Amazing project!

I can finally breath again thanks to HackerWiki!

Comment by pythonRon 2 hours ago

How about a light themed version for those of us with vision problems?

Comment by 1e1a 5 hours ago

Similar app from 4 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48530382

Comment by thefourthchime 5 hours ago

On the desktop this seems to be only rendered for mobile.

Comment by koruse 4 hours ago

Pls somebody make hackertwitter save us from Elon

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Comment by testfrequency 2 hours ago

Show HN: “I took hacker news content and turned it into a message board”

Comment by rvz 5 hours ago

We are now past the "intellectual curiosity" era of Show HN and it has now entered into its fast food slop age.

Comment by jacquesm 5 hours ago

I also doubt that youtube thing would have made it as high as it did if not for Karpathy.

Comment by guitarlimeo 5 hours ago

Yeah influence has always had a huge effect but nowadays it feels like it starts to be the only thing that has an effect, as all these curiosity projects are low effort.

Comment by ares623 4 hours ago

Mmmm Karpathy slop

Comment by yagyavendratiwa 1 hour ago

Nice project

Comment by nomilk 5 hours ago

Will Betteridge’s Law of Headlines Fail to Take Number One Spot?

https://wikihack.netlify.app/feed/top

Comment by joshuaS98 4 hours ago

Can we next do FruitHack? HackerTube, but for fruits mentioned on HN

Comment by Profazia 4 hours ago

looks like slop though

Comment by verve_rat 2 hours ago

Sweet. Now I just need someone to build one for phone apps, one for desktop software, and one for Web apps and I think I'll be all sorted.

Comment by brador 3 hours ago

Every vibe coded software I’m following has stopped updates after about a week. Is this a change of interest in the developer or did they get lost in the code slop and the AI hit context limits to quality essentially locking out further changes?

Comment by xpct 2 hours ago

People are creating projects by paying money and not time, things that they wouldn't actually invest time into.

I suspect that this fad will die out when LLM capabilities are no longer as exciting.

Comment by rvz 3 hours ago

It is because it makes $0 and they spend $100 - $1,000 on tokens.

Comment by jacobobryant 5 hours ago

Coming soon: HackerHackerTube, my website that recommends HackerTube variants posted on HN!

Comment by sailorganymede 4 hours ago

I can't wait for the HackerHacker: HackerNews comments cited by other HackerNews comments

Comment by hiimkeks 3 hours ago

Not quite but close: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

Comment by wongarsu 3 hours ago

Now just add a ranking

Obviously the dropbox comment would be the most cited. But I wonder what number two would be

Comment by nakedneuron 3 hours ago

Waiting for HackerMusic and HackerGames...

Comment by x______________ 3 hours ago

>..and HackerGames

You mean this[0]?

0 https://hnarcade.com

Comment by MarcScott 3 hours ago

Podcasts would be one I might actually be interested in

Comment by ylxdzsw 2 hours ago

HackXKCD please

Comment by 9dev 4 hours ago

If I had time, I’d do HackerOverflow - all threads where HN users help answer technical questions and help debugging!

Comment by bawis 2 hours ago

Better, HackerOverflow: the most suggested Stack Exchange questions on HN.

Comment by 9dev 1 hour ago

And thus, StackerNews was born.

Comment by jacquesm 3 hours ago

That's going to be a very short list then.

https://news.ycombinator.com/ask

Comment by 9dev 2 hours ago

I really also meant nested in discussions on other submissions, not just Ask HN - I have found amazing gems hidden downthread of posts through the years, sometimes from internet legends or high-profile maintainers directly.

Comment by econ 1 hour ago

I want this, but sorted by most down votes.

Comment by whilenot-dev 3 hours ago

HackerUsers: List of HN accounts and their skill set. Since I already got emails from my HN comments I'm sure some big consultancy companies already have this in place.