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Re: Show HN: Hallucinopedia

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Post by aDyslecticCrow » Wed, May 06, 2026, 10:27 PM UTC

everyos_ wrote: post #5

bstrama wrote: post #3

Can't wait to see the next generation of LLMs after feeding it all of that hahaha

The page requires JS to load its content - user agents without JS support just get a blank page. I'm not sure if the bots that scrape data to train LLMs are capable of loading that type of page, or if they only work on pages that have the content inside the HTML itself?

Not using JavaScript would also make the crawler fail on squarespace and wix website builders.

The age where the web was usable at all without JavaScript is long gone. No scraper would get much scraping done without JavaScript these days.

Re: Show HN: Hallucinopedia

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Post by stavros » Wed, May 06, 2026, 10:27 PM UTC

Noumenon72 wrote: post #99

stavros wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://encyclopedai.stavros.io/entries/great-pigeon-census-...

So by "I made the same thing months ago" you didn't mean "an article about the great pigeon census" (your link is created May 6) or "an encyclopedia of hallucinations" like the OP, but just "an encyclopedia with some articles AI wrote". What's the point?

What's the difference between an encyclopedia that produces AI articles on demand and an encyclopedia that produces AI articles on demand?

Re: Show HN: Hallucinopedia

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Post by nlehuen » Wed, May 06, 2026, 10:28 PM UTC

I'm having a blast adding new seeds :)

https://halupedia.com/fcuk-spellchecking-society https://halupedia.com/characterization-of-the-reluctant-peng...

Re: Show HN: Hallucinopedia

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Post by cachius » Wed, May 06, 2026, 10:36 PM UTC

stavros wrote: post #62

petercooper wrote: post #2

Give it a week and see what Google AI Overview has to say about the Great Pigeon Census of 1887!

I made the same thing months ago, so you don't need to wait: https://encyclopedai.stavros.io

There's another one! https://grokipedia.com/

Re: Show HN: Hallucinopedia

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Post by gojomo » Wed, May 06, 2026, 10:37 PM UTC

stavros wrote: post #102

Noumenon72 wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So by "I made the same thing months ago" you didn't mean "an article about the great pigeon census" (your link is created May 6) or "an encyclopedia of hallucinations" like the OP, but just "an encyclopedia with some articles AI wrote". What's the point?

What's the difference between an encyclopedia that produces AI articles on demand and an encyclopedia that produces AI articles on demand?

If you think that's all the Hallucinopedia is, you're misunderstanding it.

One hint – check out its prompt, and how it makes its articles so different than those of your project: https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=48042306

Re: Show HN: Hallucinopedia

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Post by nlehuen » Wed, May 06, 2026, 10:37 PM UTC

driggs wrote: post #38

This is fantastic. I couldn't find any obvious way to search for a new page, but you can simply bang out any arbitrary URL slug and the new article will be hallucinated fresh, eg: https://halupedia.com/shortest-cave-in-the-world https://halupedia.com/echolocation-ability-in-spiders

https://halupedia.com/spatial-bowel-movement-observatory

Re: Show HN: Hallucinopedia

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Post by mmooss » Wed, May 06, 2026, 10:37 PM UTC

Noumenon72 wrote: post #100

mmooss wrote: post #89

As I said in another comment, this is brilliant. Suggestion: Remove anything that isn't part of the satire; act always as if it's a 'real' encyclopedia. For example on the front page I would remove, > Articles are generated on demand and stored permanently upon first request. Don't dispell the magic; don't pull back the curtain and let people see the mechanics. EDIT: As you say in your system prompt, "You never wink…

This is irresponsible for people who don't get it, takes away confirmation for people who do get it, and makes me block/blacklist any liar who does it.

It is indeed a problem for people who refuse to use their sense of humor.

Re: Show HN: Hallucinopedia

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Post by stavros » Wed, May 06, 2026, 10:38 PM UTC

cachius wrote: post #104

stavros wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I made the same thing months ago, so you don't need to wait: https://encyclopedai.stavros.io

There's another one! https://grokipedia.com/

Ah yes, IIRC I got the idea to make mine to make fun of that one when I heard the name.

Re: Show HN: Hallucinopedia

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Post by gojomo » Wed, May 06, 2026, 10:41 PM UTC

stavros wrote: post #93

gojomo wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I searched your site for [Great Pigeon Census of 1887] and was only returned articles anout other things.

https://encyclopedai.stavros.io/entries/great-pigeon-census-...

As it didn't generate that when I typed the title i to your search box, was there a bug now fixed? Or did you use some other path not evident on the page you linked to generate it?

Re: Show HN: Hallucinopedia

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Post by stavros » Wed, May 06, 2026, 10:43 PM UTC

gojomo wrote: post #109

stavros wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://encyclopedai.stavros.io/entries/great-pigeon-census-...

As it didn't generate that when I typed the title i to your search box, was there a bug now fixed? Or did you use some other path not evident on the page you linked to generate it?

There was a bug where scanning took too long with the thousands of articles in there, but I just fixed it.

You can also just type a random URL and visit it, it'll generate an article. That's what I did before I fixed the search issue, and I usually just do that to avoid the search route.