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Re: Show HN: Scroll Wikipedia like TikTok

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Post by nephihaha »

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.

Allow TikTok to be run like Wikipedia... So that people with no interest or knowledge of a particular subject can go round deleting said content, or blocking every shared IP from uploading content while saying anyone can edit it.

Re: Show HN: Scroll Wikipedia like TikTok

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Post by fpsvogel »

sdan wrote: post #26
cons0le wrote: post #22

This 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.

One way to get usable and consistent categories for a Wikipedia article is Lift Wing: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Machine_Learning/LiftWin...

I once used it to create a "Wikipedia StumbleUpon": https://github.com/fpsvogel/wiki-stumble#demo

Here is the code related to Lift Wing: https://github.com/fpsvogel/wiki-stumble/blob/main/app/model...

Mentioning this in case you're looking for something as a basis for tags.

EDIT: Here is a list of all the categories from Lift Wing: https://github.com/fpsvogel/wiki-stumble/blob/main/app/model...

Re: Show HN: Scroll Wikipedia like TikTok

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Post by [deleted] »

sdan wrote: post #25
cornonthecobra wrote: post #24

The caption highlight timing is very inaccurate. It looks like it just steps through each word on a fixed timer, rather than using timing information from the TTS engine?

Yes just fixed timer, and using browser TTS nothing fancy here on purpose - when I did some research on tiktok videos generally simpler/worse quality seemed to be better XD

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Re: Show HN: Scroll Wikipedia like TikTok

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Post by cornonthecobra »

sdan wrote: post #25
cornonthecobra wrote: post #24

The caption highlight timing is very inaccurate. It looks like it just steps through each word on a fixed timer, rather than using timing information from the TTS engine?

Yes just fixed timer, and using browser TTS nothing fancy here on purpose - when I did some research on tiktok videos generally simpler/worse quality seemed to be better XD

In this case, static text without the highlighter would have been better. Because the timing is so far off, the highlighter interferes with reading the captions for hearing assistance.

Re: Show HN: Scroll Wikipedia like TikTok

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Post by thiht »

saltwatercowboy wrote: post #68
thiht wrote: post #66

I 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.

Yeah because I think it’s a seriously good idea. Making knowledge and science somewhat addictive is a cool goal

I could see myself using that

Re: Show HN: Scroll Wikipedia like TikTok

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Post by rhplus »

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.

TikTok like Wikipedia, huh? So we’d finally get to see how much of the recommendation algorithm was edited by IP addresses from US gov, Chinese gov and Russian bots?

Re: Show HN: Scroll Wikipedia like TikTok

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Post by nolok »

nephihaha wrote: post #71
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.

Allow TikTok to be run like Wikipedia... So that people with no interest or knowledge of a particular subject can go round deleting said content, or blocking every shared IP from uploading content while saying anyone can edit it.

That's a very wrong view of how Wikipedia works, and frankly vastly I prefer its limited but generalized gatekeeping than "everybody is allowed to lie and bullshit and as long as it makes engagement your feed is going to be filled with it" the TikTok way.
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