Show HN: Scroll Wikipedia like TikTok • Hacker News Board

Re: Show HN: Scroll Wikipedia like TikTok

#51

Post by sdan » Sat, Jan 10, 2026, 3:20 AM UTC

alexpadula wrote: post #50

It’s a cool idea but the content needs to be more useful imo.

how could i make it more useful? different formats? would you want to keep you engaged for longer? entertained for longer?

Re: Show HN: Scroll Wikipedia like TikTok

#52

Post by garyfirestorm » Sat, Jan 10, 2026, 3:30 AM UTC

sdan wrote: post #51

alexpadula wrote: post #50

It’s a cool idea but the content needs to be more useful imo.

how could i make it more useful? different formats? would you want to keep you engaged for longer? entertained for longer?

Relevant content - what is relevant to me may not be relevant to you.

Re: Show HN: Scroll Wikipedia like TikTok

#53

Post by breadchris » Sat, Jan 10, 2026, 3:58 AM UTC

I love this! I made a cooking knowledge brain rot app for myself from my favorite youtuber https://recipes.justshare.io/random-dan

Re: Show HN: Scroll Wikipedia like TikTok

#54

Post by NoteyComplexity » Sat, Jan 10, 2026, 4:13 AM UTC

jaredsohn wrote: post #36

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.

Instead of LLM and just like Wikipedia, there should be users to submit the descriptions of the videos, and see people fighting for getting the most “correct” description.

It will be hilarious to see what people will come up with when they see brain rot content.

Re: Show HN: Scroll Wikipedia like TikTok

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Post by anotherpaul » Sat, Jan 10, 2026, 4:35 AM UTC

Oh I hate it it's so brain rotty. Well done. Well done indeed.

Re: Show HN: Scroll Wikipedia like TikTok

#56

Post by omegabravo » Sat, Jan 10, 2026, 5:17 AM UTC

I was confused why someone would possibly configure the voice to be quiet and raspy.

Seems like there's an issue with Firefox that was causing it. Chrome voice sounds "normal" - like TikTok.

Re: Show HN: Scroll Wikipedia like TikTok

#57

Post by lysp » Sat, Jan 10, 2026, 5:49 AM UTC

jaredsohn wrote: post #36

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.

> Next step is allow viewing TikTok like wikipedia

I tried that and this is what I got:

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Re: Show HN: Scroll Wikipedia like TikTok

#58

Post by baby » Sat, Jan 10, 2026, 6:17 AM UTC

jaredsohn wrote: post #36

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.

There's already memepedia

Re: Show HN: Scroll Wikipedia like TikTok

#59

Post by baby » Sat, Jan 10, 2026, 6:20 AM UTC

Wow this is so freaking awesome! I guess the pages I ended up scrolling on weren't too interesting though, how do you figure out what stories to create/show?

Re: Show HN: Scroll Wikipedia like TikTok

#60

Post by baby » Sat, Jan 10, 2026, 6:21 AM UTC

sdan wrote: post #45

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!

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