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Re: Show HN: Scroll Wikipedia like TikTok

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Post by gregjw » Sat, Jan 10, 2026, 1:23 AM UTC

kerisi wrote: post #14

you can use LTX to generate the videos, this video took 15s on a 4090 https://vimeo.com/1152992073?share=copy&fl=sv&fe=ci

we live in an era of frictionless slop creation. yay.

Re: Show HN: Scroll Wikipedia like TikTok

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Post by Imustaskforhelp » Sat, Jan 10, 2026, 1:31 AM UTC

tylervigen wrote: post #40

Hilarious. The one AI voice is a little too grating for me, but with a little variation I might actually scroll it for a while.

Yea I didn't like the voice as well, it felt very coarse to me and not very enjoyable

To be really honest, I still occasionally browse shorts sometimes because of some youtubers/niche content (there is this really good etymology shorts guy and a fun fact guy I watch usually)

So like the other day I was asking fun fact about niche legal laws just out of curiosity if anyone of them might be interesting/genuinely helpful to me lol to chatgpt about different countries

There were lot of niche things but one which I found interesting was that its possible in finland and other norweigian countries to browse even private land / private forests etc. and finland even has a digital right to internet

> Finland was the first country in the world to make access to high-speed internet a legal right, establishing this policy in July 2010. The law requires all service providers to offer a minimum internet speed of one megabit per second to every household, with a goal of providing access to 100 megabits per second by 2015. PBS edri.org (from Duckduckgo AI)

Re: Show HN: Scroll Wikipedia like TikTok

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Post by grugagag » Sat, Jan 10, 2026, 1:49 AM UTC

Good. However, on a smaller phone such as Iphone SE the viewport gets cropped all around and I don’t see around 20% of the content.

Re: Show HN: Scroll Wikipedia like TikTok

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Post by sdan » Sat, Jan 10, 2026, 1:50 AM UTC

tylervigen wrote: post #40

Hilarious. The one AI voice is a little too grating for me, but with a little variation I might actually scroll it for a while.

A few months ago I made a (theoretically) infinitely learning geo-guessing model that updated the policy with each user guess: https://geospot.sdan.io/

Hoping to implement a simple RL loop here and optimize whats generated by the LLM to create the perfect slop machine :)

Re: Show HN: Scroll Wikipedia like TikTok

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Post by sdan » Sat, Jan 10, 2026, 1:51 AM UTC

Note there's a rate limit on generated content for the time being, why you're unable to see any new content on the rest of the feeds. LLMs are expensive!