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

wikihack.netlify.app

130 points by aizk 4 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!

jacobobryant 1 hour ago

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

alcomatt 34 minutes ago

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

thasso 1 hour ago

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

  • defrost 1 hour ago

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

  • emaro 1 hour ago

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

nomilk 1 hour 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 1 hour 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 1 hour 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.

sixtyj 1 hour 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 1 hour ago

    There's so many dead domains though.

    • lifeisloving 34 minutes 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.

      • komali2 5 minutes 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?

lofties 13 minutes ago

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

julenx 1 hour 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.

mettamage 1 hour 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 ;-)

koruse 32 minutes ago

Pls somebody make hackertwitter save us from Elon

thefourthchime 2 hours ago

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

joshuaS98 1 hour ago

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

rvz 2 hours ago

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

  • jacquesm 1 hour ago

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

    • guitarlimeo 1 hour 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 34 minutes ago

        Mmmm Karpathy slop

Profazia 1 hour ago

looks like slop though