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

(wikihack.netlify.app)

155 points | by aizk 5 hours ago ago

44 comments

  • freakynit a minute ago 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...

    Relevant post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40644563

    What's missing are entity-level extracted data, and embeddings.

  • Hackbraten 20 minutes ago 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).

  • jacobobryant 2 hours ago ago

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

    • sailorganymede 2 hours ago ago

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

    • whilenot-dev 25 minutes ago 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...

    • nakedneuron an hour ago ago

      Waiting for HackerMusic and HackerGames...

    • 9dev 2 hours ago ago

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

      • jacquesm an hour ago ago

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

        https://news.ycombinator.com/ask

        • 9dev 3 minutes ago 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.

  • enoch2090 11 minutes ago ago

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

  • alcomatt an hour ago ago

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

  • thasso 2 hours ago ago

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

    • defrost 2 hours ago ago

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

    • emaro 2 hours ago ago

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

  • sixtyj 2 hours ago 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…

    • ShinyLeftPad 2 hours ago ago

      There's so many dead domains though.

      • lifeisloving an hour ago 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.

        • darkwater 9 minutes ago 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.

        • komali2 39 minutes ago 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?

  • nomilk 2 hours ago 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.

    • defrost 2 hours ago 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 )

      • nomilk 2 hours ago 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.

        • LoganDark 33 minutes ago 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.

  • julenx 2 hours ago 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.

  • lofties an hour ago ago

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

  • mettamage 2 hours ago 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 ;-)

  • 1e1a 2 hours ago ago

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

  • koruse an hour ago ago

    Pls somebody make hackertwitter save us from Elon

  • thefourthchime 3 hours ago ago

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

  • joshuaS98 2 hours ago ago

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

  • nomilk 2 hours ago ago

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

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

  • rvz 3 hours ago ago

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

    • jacquesm 2 hours ago ago

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

      • guitarlimeo 2 hours ago 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.

        • ares623 an hour ago ago

          Mmmm Karpathy slop

  • brador 20 minutes ago 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?

    • rvz 16 minutes ago ago

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

  • Profazia 2 hours ago ago

    looks like slop though