Show HN: Wikihack – HackerTube, but for Wikipedia articles mentioned on HN
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!
Discussion Highlights (20 comments)
thefourthchime
On the desktop this seems to be only rendered for mobile.
rvz
We are now past the "intellectual curiosity" era of Show HN and it has now entered into its fast food slop age.
jacobobryant
Coming soon: HackerHackerTube, my website that recommends HackerTube variants posted on HN!
nomilk
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.
thasso
I would just love it if the front page were full of "Show HN: HackerFoo" posts for two weeks now.
nomilk
Will Betteridge’s Law of Headlines Fail to Take Number One Spot? https://wikihack.netlify.app/feed/top
sixtyj
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…
1e1a
Similar app from 4 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48530382
julenx
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.
mettamage
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 ;-)
joshuaS98
Can we next do FruitHack? HackerTube, but for fruits mentioned on HN
Profazia
looks like slop though
alcomatt
Let's raise the bar. Create HackerDump - it's like HackerNews but only shows the articles you read in the toilet...
koruse
Pls somebody make hackertwitter save us from Elon
lofties
Show HN: Hacker News - HackerTube, but for articles posted on HN.
brador
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?
Hackbraten
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).
enoch2090
Coming soon: HackerHacker, HackerX, HackerGitHub, HackerAliExpress and HackerP*nHub!
freakynit
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.
pythonRon
How about a light themed version for those of us with vision problems?