WikiHack - Hacker News-linked Wikipedia articles as a browsable feed
Show HN: Wikihack – HackerTube, but for Wikipedia articles mentioned on HN
WikiHack is a Hacker News-inspired discovery tool that surfaces Wikipedia articles mentioned across HN discussions, ranked by community engagement. Instead of scrolling through comment threads, you get a clean feed of topics like the FAIRVIEW surveillance program, the 2013 Metcalf sniper attack, or the is–ought problem, each showing how many HNers linked to it and the timespan of those links. It solves the problem of losing track of fascinating rabbit holes buried in HN comments, turning collective curiosity into a curated, endlessly scrollable reading list. Just open the site and start exploring.
It's HackerTube, but for Wikipedia articles mentioned on HN — a feed of the rabbit holes your fellow HNers actually went down.
- comboy
I'll skip you guys some time, hackerstuff - all media links, entities and people mentioned on HN, weighted by posters karma.
We could even display them together sorted by the newest one, maybe with some associated comments.
- 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).
- 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.
- hidelooktropic
I did this before it was cool
Every Wikipedia Page from HN's Top Front Page
- thasso
I would just love it if the front page were full of "Show HN: HackerFoo" posts for two weeks now.
- moehm
Hey, nice, I built roughly the same during the covid era pre AI.
- 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…
- 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.