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Re: Show HN: Scroll Wikipedia like TikTok

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Post by Edmond »

Work related versions of this, expense report:

https://youtu.be/h0Bg-lqNlkU

In general Just-In-Time app generation is a bad idea. The right approach is to create human-in-loop tools that a bot would recognize and invoke as needed, of course the human-in-loop tool would itself be AI generated.

Example of human-in-loop tool in use:

https://youtu.be/srG5Ze7mS7s

Re: Show HN: Scroll Wikipedia like TikTok

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Post by xnx »

SirFatty wrote: post #6
xnx wrote: post #4

Sounds like WikTok (2023, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42936723 ) or WikiTok (early 2025, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42936723 ).

"This was inspired by Wikitok, a VSCode Extension I made around brainrot, and another fully generative UI site I made."

I saw that but got the submitter and commenter names mixed up, so I didn't realize it was the same person.

Re: Show HN: Scroll Wikipedia like TikTok

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Post by vedmakk »

This is really cool. I'm interested in the GenUI part. Is the web app itself static and the stories are generated on-demand?

Do you give gemini some UI components/templates to build with or is it just prompting to get consistent results across multiple stories?

Re: Show HN: Scroll Wikipedia like TikTok

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Post by aizk »

Hi there, creator of Wikitok here! Very happy to hear that my random little project inspired you :) The attention to detail in the UI is good - I'm so over every default AI generated UI being rounded corners, centered divs, blue and purple gradients, etc. Nice work.

Re: Show HN: Scroll Wikipedia like TikTok

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Post by aizk »

SirFatty wrote: post #6
xnx wrote: post #4

Sounds like WikTok (2023, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42936723 ) or WikiTok (early 2025, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42936723 ).

"This was inspired by Wikitok, a VSCode Extension I made around brainrot, and another fully generative UI site I made."

:)

Re: Show HN: Scroll Wikipedia like TikTok

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Post by odie5533 »

emsign wrote: post #10

Nice tech demo but in practice utterly annoying and without purpose. I mean don't you think enshitifying Wiki knowledge kind of beats the purpose of acquiring knowledge?

It's a proof of concept to pave the way. I could see benefit in having series which deep dive into material. This felt too shallow to me.
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