Can you request a specific wiki article?
I'd like to see https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Dome_(missile_defense_syst...
Show HN: Scroll Wikipedia like TikTok
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#62This is amazing! I think this could actually catch on! Plz give an easy way to follow some tags so it's not showing me football stuff. If it was just topics I was interested in, I could scroll this for hours.
Huge- good to hear will see if I can add a way to type in what you want or to go dig further into just certain hashtags.
It's pretty cool.
This is even scalable if you consider caching some of these requests and allow users to choose if they want a just-in-time version. Also the comments really are snappy and quick to load.
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#63Nice tech demo but in practice utterly annoying and without purpose. I mean don't you think enshitifying Wiki knowledge kind of beats the purpose of acquiring knowledge?
It's a proof of concept to pave the way. I could see benefit in having series which deep dive into material. This felt too shallow to me.
Deep dives with TikTok mechanics? That's not going to work, that TikTok UI was optimized for dopamine release. You want to teach junkies new things? All they learn is how to get their kicks, so outside that settings nothing will stick. When they have to apply the infotainment snippets in a real world setting the won't be these high reward stimuli. I mean if you want to hook them on feeling great while believing they've learned something...
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#64Wow 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?
Wikipedia articles are randomly sampled, theres no algorithm per-se yet but hoping to collaborate with others to see that through
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#65747.run is a realtime infinite Ai wikipedia, every word is a link to a unique article based on the word in the URL, Ai frequently checks all URL's and writes a new article based on the word you click.
You can also write articles and all your words become links, use the website address bar to type any word after 747.run/ or type 747.run/ behind any domain to generate unique articles based on domain.
Have a group chat with unlimited people and Ai, share any link to chat with anyone, press space to chat with the Ai, have an Ai chatbot on your website or chat with users privately by embedding it on your website with iFrame (set BG color or leave it transparent)
The Ai sometimes drifts & hallucinates.
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#66I thought the scroll didn’t work at first, apparently only the bottom of the screen is scrollable. I see other comments talking about a voice, I don’t have it, just the music? Also the content is really irrelevant and uninteresting (I’m assuming it uses a random article? It should aim for the most popular instead), it really needs some curation.
The subtitles are also hard to read, they should be displayed sentence by sentence, not word by word.
IMO you didn’t capture what makes some interesting content work on TikTok. The scientific content on TikTok doesn’t have the brainrot music, it’s just interesting because of the short format. It looks to me like a clone of TikTok made by someone who hates TikTok and built it out of assumptions on what TikTok is.
Honestly interesting Wikipedia articles summarized as TikTok content is a killer idea, but the implementation is not there yet
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#67Hilarious. The one AI voice is a little too grating for me, but with a little variation I might actually scroll it for a while.
They could have used Kokoro which is open source, fast and way more human-like.
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#68I thought the scroll didn’t work at first, apparently only the bottom of the screen is scrollable. I see other comments talking about a voice, I don’t have it, just the music? Also the content is really irrelevant and uninteresting (I’m assuming it uses a random article? It should aim for the most popular instead), it really needs some curation. The subtitles are also hard to read, they should be displayed sentence b…
I think you are taking this more seriously than the creator. It's just a bit of fun.
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#69How appropriate
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#70Google should buy Wikipedia and be done with it. Or we could cut out Google altogether and just search Wikipedia because it is one of the few sites Google will show you.