YHK - yet another hacker news clone

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

119 points aizk 3 hours ago 27 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 1 hour ago | parent

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

rvz 1 hour 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 1 hour ago | parent

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

guitarlimeo 1 hour 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.

ares623 14 minutes ago | parent

Mmmm Karpathy slop

jacobobryant 1 hour ago | parent

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

sailorganymede 48 minutes ago | parent

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

hiimkeks 5 minutes ago | parent

Not quite but close: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

9dev 43 minutes ago | parent

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

nakedneuron 9 minutes ago | parent

Waiting for HackerMusic and HackerGames...

nomilk 1 hour 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 1 hour 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 1 hour 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 1 hour ago | parent

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

defrost 1 hour ago | parent

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

emaro 54 minutes ago | parent

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

nomilk 1 hour ago | parent

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

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

sixtyj 1 hour 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…

ShinyLeftPad 40 minutes ago | parent

There's so many dead domains though.

lifeisloving 14 minutes ago | parent

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.

1e1a 1 hour ago | parent

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

julenx 1 hour 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 1 hour 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 ;-)

joshuaS98 41 minutes ago | parent

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

Profazia 41 minutes ago | parent

looks like slop though

alcomatt 13 minutes ago | parent

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

koruse 11 minutes ago | parent

Pls somebody make hackertwitter save us from Elon