Yet another Hacker News

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

73 points aizk 2 hours ago 16 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!

thefourthchime 56 minutes ago | parent

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

rvz 53 minutes ago | parent

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

jacquesm 34 minutes ago | parent

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

guitarlimeo 23 minutes ago | parent

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.

jacobobryant 42 minutes ago | parent

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

nomilk 39 minutes ago | parent

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.

defrost 36 minutes ago | parent

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 )

nomilk 33 minutes ago | parent

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.

thasso 39 minutes ago | parent

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

defrost 34 minutes ago | parent

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

emaro 1 minute ago | parent

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

nomilk 30 minutes ago | parent

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

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

sixtyj 30 minutes ago | parent

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 22 minutes ago | parent

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

julenx 15 minutes ago | parent

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 11 minutes ago | parent

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 ;-)