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Re: Show HN: Wikipedia as a doomscrollable social media feed

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post #62

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probably vibe coded

I wrote this project by hand in Sublime Text, which is more of a text editor than an IDE. I don't use ai, even for autocomplete. All of the code is unminified/unobfuscated in the index.html file, you can right click the page and view-source it.

I do the same as you, except in vim. But increasingly I'm getting the nagging feeling that I'm wasting my time.

Re: Show HN: Wikipedia as a doomscrollable social media feed

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wrote this project by hand in Sublime Text, which is more of a text editor than an IDE. I don't use ai, even for autocomplete. All of the code is unminified/unobfuscated in the index.html file, you can right click the page and view-source it.

I do the same as you, except in vim. But increasingly I'm getting the nagging feeling that I'm wasting my time.

I made this project from start to finish in less than a day, and I feel it was well worth my time and effort.

Re: Show HN: Wikipedia as a doomscrollable social media feed

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I abadoned facebook since I couldnt stand the feed experience anymore. Recently learned about using https://www.facebook.com/?sk=h_chr in combintation with extension https://www.fbpurity.com/ which give me a chronological feed of groups and people i actually want to hear from. The most astonishing experience is how calm I feel consuming this cleaned up feed. Almost all negative emotions seem to stem from the uncontrollable feed experience.

Re: Show HN: Wikipedia as a doomscrollable social media feed

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This app IS made in under 1mb. The entire app, including all the assets minus all the actual Wikipedia data, is 21kB (no minification or compression). And all of it is in a single html file with human-readable code.

Interesting. I haven't investigated, so I don't know where the 40mb comes from.

It's JSON.

Re: Show HN: Wikipedia as a doomscrollable social media feed

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post #62
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This is a very neat idea. I am not sure why the page needs to load 40mb of data and make me wait 5 mins before the first view. I'd probably also add some ranking criteria to surface good quality articles that maximize the "I learnt something new today" factor. Overall kudos to the developer for original thinking.

probably vibe coded

Should that be a criteria for deciding whether it's cool or not?

Re: Show HN: Wikipedia as a doomscrollable social media feed

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post #46

TIL: The United States Virgin Islands are a group of islands in the Caribbean Sea. They are currently owned and under the authority of the United States Government. They used to be owned by Denmark (and called Danish West Indies). They were sold to the U.S. on January 17, 1917, because of fear that the Germans would capture them and use them as a submarine base in World War I. https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/United…

Yes. The sale has been in the news lately because in that agreement the US formally agreed to cede its interest in Greenland.

Re: Show HN: Wikipedia as a doomscrollable social media feed

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post #18

This is a very neat idea. I am not sure why the page needs to load 40mb of data and make me wait 5 mins before the first view. I'd probably also add some ranking criteria to surface good quality articles that maximize the "I learnt something new today" factor. Overall kudos to the developer for original thinking.

Yeah, the implementation is odd. Cool idea though. Also see:

https://www.wikitok.io/

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