This is an amazing interface for Wikipedia; at least for those of us who have their brains fried by "verticals"
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#22nice! kind of similar but re-made a scrollable wikipedia a few weeks ago: https://quack.sdan.io/
oh I have not see this one, looks good. I was inspired by wikitok project https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42936723, I just did not like that it had random wikipedia articles, so I used HN as sort of a filter
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#23Oh, nice execution. I had the same idea during the pandemic. Though my aesthetics are completely different as I focused more on the discussions on HN, as they often have some golden nuggets. Yours is of course way more polished, as I basically just slapped bootstrap on my database front end. https://www.mostdiscussed.com/ Interesting how different our "popularity score" is though: https://www.mostdiscussed.com/popula…
Hey, nice project! I guess it is much easier now with claude/codex to get polished design fast.
I used to have topics etc but removed them for simplicity sake. Proabably makes sense to revert. I'll check out new filter (thanks for the pointing out)
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#24Other modes worth trying: "Mailing Lists", "Research Papers"
yes, absolutley, I was looking into it yesterday and there is a lot of potential
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#25This is an amazing interface for Wikipedia; at least for those of us who have their brains fried by "verticals"
Thanks! I was inspired by the wikitok project (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42936723), but wanted to be able to dive into article a bit deeper.
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#26Someone at WIkipedia currently abuses visitors via nag-spam-harass pop-ups. Now, ublock origin hero-blocked this, but I feel that this is an abuse. I already had a similar "discussion" with Nate abusing KDE users via his donation-daemon but he keeps on wanting more and more money (https://web.archive.org/web/20250914213714/https://jriddell....; the original website entry was removed some months ago, for reasons unknown to me).
I feel that this is blatant abuse of people. The argument is NOT about as to whether donations should be acceptable or not, that is another discussion; the argument is that pester pop ups are an abuse of visitors. Same with pester daemons running in the background asking for money or possibly gathering user information in the future (age sniffing daemons).
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#27Wikepedia, the most untrustworthy source ever, cases and cases of people who gained access to the article and completely changed it with fake information: 1. Assassin's Creed video game: A guy changed Japanese history by introducing a black samurai. The whole dramas was so bad that Janapense officials got involved, and one of the reasons Ubisoft Studio which was already broke due to DEI, went even more bankrupt. 2. A…
>1. Assassin's Creed video game: A guy changed Japanese history by introducing a black samurai. The whole dramas was so bad that Janapense officials got involved, and one of the reasons Ubisoft Studio which was already broke due to DEI, went even more bankrupt. Honestly one of the best Wikipedia talk pages I had ever read, during the controversy. I read amazing arguments well put from both sides, but personally fell…
Wait, did people really get worked up over a playable character in a video game? How is Ubisoft changing history or whatever with this? Its a silly assasin game where you murder a lot of people?
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#28Cool! I’ve been using this bookmark for years: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=wikipedia.org
Which is denser on information, faster to read, more accessible and works without javascript. I did whitelist the orangecrumb domain for JS temporarily though. Does look neat, but not the the sort of interface I'm into.
"Which is denser on information"
Depends, it mostly shows those entries that were not popular or even flagged.
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#29Wikepedia, the most untrustworthy source ever, cases and cases of people who gained access to the article and completely changed it with fake information: 1. Assassin's Creed video game: A guy changed Japanese history by introducing a black samurai. The whole dramas was so bad that Janapense officials got involved, and one of the reasons Ubisoft Studio which was already broke due to DEI, went even more bankrupt. 2. A…
Yeah, Wikipedia has some unreliable articles, but "the most untrustworthy source ever"? Whatever country you live in, I'm sure it has its share of Fox News, The Sun, or Bild Zeitung.
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#30Oh, nice execution. I had the same idea during the pandemic. Though my aesthetics are completely different as I focused more on the discussions on HN, as they often have some golden nuggets. Yours is of course way more polished, as I basically just slapped bootstrap on my database front end. https://www.mostdiscussed.com/ Interesting how different our "popularity score" is though: https://www.mostdiscussed.com/popula…
fixed the new fillter, thanks for heads up