Show HN: Wikihack – HackerTube, but for Wikipedia articles mentioned on HN
176 points by aizk 6 hours ago | 47 comments
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!


Hackbraten 45 minutes 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).

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jacobobryant 3 hours ago
Coming soon: HackerHackerTube, my website that recommends HackerTube variants posted on HN!
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sailorganymede 3 hours ago
I can't wait for the HackerHacker: HackerNews comments cited by other HackerNews comments
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hiimkeks 2 hours ago
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wongarsu 55 minutes ago
Now just add a ranking

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

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nakedneuron 2 hours ago
Waiting for HackerMusic and HackerGames...
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MarcScott 2 hours ago
Podcasts would be one I might actually be interested in
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x______________ 58 minutes ago
>..and HackerGames

You mean this[0]?

0 https://hnarcade.com

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ylxdzsw 19 minutes ago
HackXKCD please
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whilenot-dev 50 minutes 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.

What a sad dystopian future...

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9dev 3 hours ago
If I had time, I’d do HackerOverflow - all threads where HN users help answer technical questions and help debugging!
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jacquesm 2 hours ago
That's going to be a very short list then.

https://news.ycombinator.com/ask

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9dev 27 minutes 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.
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freakynit 26 minutes 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.

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enoch2090 36 minutes ago
Coming soon: HackerHacker, HackerX, HackerGitHub, HackerAliExpress and HackerP*nHub!
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enoch2090 34 minutes ago
But seriously, please don't burn any more tokens to make any of these real
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davidzweig 33 minutes ago
well I made this for Reddit and HN:

https://www.trustmebro.reviews/

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thasso 3 hours ago
I would just love it if the front page were full of "Show HN: HackerFoo" posts for two weeks now.
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defrost 3 hours ago
Show HN: Peak Passive Aggressive comments; flagged, dead, and eerily popular !
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emaro 3 hours ago
I mean the hype cycles usually don't last that long anymore these days? It will get old by Friday.
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alcomatt 2 hours ago
Let's raise the bar. Create HackerDump - it's like HackerNews but only shows the articles you read in the toilet...
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pythonRon 12 minutes ago
How about a light themed version for those of us with vision problems?
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sixtyj 3 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…
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ShinyLeftPad 2 hours ago
There's so many dead domains though.
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lifeisloving 2 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.

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darkwater 34 minutes 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.
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komali2 2 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?
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nomilk 3 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.
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defrost 3 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 )

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nomilk 3 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.
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LoganDark 57 minutes 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.
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julenx 3 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.
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mettamage 3 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 ;-)

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lofties 2 hours ago
Show HN: Hacker News - HackerTube, but for articles posted on HN.
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1e1a 3 hours ago
Similar app from 4 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48530382
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thefourthchime 4 hours ago
On the desktop this seems to be only rendered for mobile.
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koruse 2 hours ago
Pls somebody make hackertwitter save us from Elon
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verve_rat 7 minutes 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.
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joshuaS98 2 hours ago
Can we next do FruitHack? HackerTube, but for fruits mentioned on HN
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nomilk 3 hours ago
Will Betteridge’s Law of Headlines Fail to Take Number One Spot?

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

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rvz 4 hours ago
We are now past the "intellectual curiosity" era of Show HN and it has now entered into its fast food slop age.
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jacquesm 3 hours ago
I also doubt that youtube thing would have made it as high as it did if not for Karpathy.
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guitarlimeo 3 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.
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ares623 2 hours ago
Mmmm Karpathy slop
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brador 45 minutes 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?
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rvz 40 minutes ago
It is because it makes $0 and they spend $100 - $1,000 on tokens.
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Profazia 2 hours ago
looks like slop though
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Ylano 15 minutes ago
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overfet 2 hours ago
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beaconflint 2 hours ago
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