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Re: Show HN: Scroll Wikipedia like TikTok

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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 also thought immediately of WikiTok and was confused by this exchange and the grammar in the quote here; I thought they were claiming to have made a VSCode extension called Wikitok. I understand now!

Re: Show HN: Scroll Wikipedia like TikTok

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post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I also thought immediately of WikiTok and was confused by this exchange and the grammar in the quote here; I thought they were claiming to have made a VSCode extension called Wikitok. I understand now!

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=SuryaDan...

for clarification :)

Re: Show HN: Scroll Wikipedia like TikTok

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Next step is allow viewing TikTok like wikipedia. Take a bunch of popular tiktok posts, use an LLM to describe what's happening via text/screenshots (with references to memes, etc), and link them to other relevant tiktoks.

Some meme sites might be somewhat similar to this.

Re: Show HN: Scroll Wikipedia like TikTok

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Having a generated voice tell me about some historical massacre in a chipper tone with a generated infographic and set to TikTok music was. Especially dystopian.

As an experience I found it nauseating and am never doing it again, but as an art piece I give it high marks. Good job.

Re: Show HN: Scroll Wikipedia like TikTok

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post #37

Having a generated voice tell me about some historical massacre in a chipper tone with a generated infographic and set to TikTok music was. Especially dystopian. As an experience I found it nauseating and am never doing it again, but as an art piece I give it high marks. Good job.

Indeed.
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