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probably vibe coded
Should that be a criteria for deciding whether it's cool or not?
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#142Cool concept. I built something very similar [1] but as a native iOS app in an attempt to cut down on my doomscrolling, but it turns out it’s hard to get my brain to read plain text when there’s a plethora of dopamine overloading video apps available.
1. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/egghead-scroll-learn/id6630364...
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> Why are you serving so much data personally instead of just reformatting theirs? Because then you only need to download 40MB of data and do minimal processing. If you were to take the dumps off of Wikimedia, you would need to download 400MB of data and do processing on that data that would take minutes of time. And also it's kind of rude to hotlink a half a gig of data on someone else's site. > What am I missing? 4…
Why not…. Load it on demand?
Why not... Just not make a problem out of nothing and wait those 3 seconds?
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Yeah, that's fair, though I'd think you can get a CDN/someone else to host the blob this for fairly cheap/free. Having too many users is a pretty good problem to have anyway!
(Could have the client download the blob from where the repo is hosted on GitHub, which takes under a second for me to download: https://github.com/rebane2001/xikipedia/raw/refs/heads/mane/... )
I'd need to implement a js brotli decompressor, or make you download a file that's 5x bigger, to use that.
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#145I assumed that obviously this is very clever performance art to show how even the healthiest food can be turned into brainrotting sludge. But then I look at the comments, and it really looks like some people want this. Now I'm depressed.
Yeah, that was the intention.
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I think it's "this one is good but if I swipe the next one can be even better", i.e. classic dopamine addiction. Stop digging!
i would place my money on the vast gap between effort and reward. you dont even need to think "if i swipe..." because the thought takes longer than the action. So why would you stop to consider what you might have to gain by swiping when you can literally swipe and find out faster than you can think about it? Then you go about your regular day and suddenly everything feels harder in comparison. You have to think abou…
it starts to sound scarily close to opioid addiction
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I want to try reimplementing it for Wikipedia in another language, would you mind sharing how you went from the 400MB Wikipedia export to the .1x (40MB) file that is downloaded here?
Yeah I plan on putting the code for that on GitHub soon too.
Added now!
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I might add a proper explanation at some point, but for now you can view-source the page and read the code, there really isn't that much of it.
Impressive! We're a university lab and published recommendation algorithms. Never knew that doomscrolling could be this addictive this fast, thnx! Please consider taking an hour and push this to a Github with quick readme. Scientists and developers would get it. We have been building a torrent-based alternative to Youtube for a few years. Not many knowledge out there around operational frontpage algorithm. Edit: http…
I've now added the algorithm explanation to the GitHub README.
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i would place my money on the vast gap between effort and reward. you dont even need to think "if i swipe..." because the thought takes longer than the action. So why would you stop to consider what you might have to gain by swiping when you can literally swipe and find out faster than you can think about it? Then you go about your regular day and suddenly everything feels harder in comparison. You have to think abou…
it starts to sound scarily close to opioid addiction
thankfully it is much more of a daily cycle than a true addiction. if you spike dopamine in the first hour of being awake, you effectively addict yourself for the day. whether you follow through on that addiction or not is less relevant, it kind of shapes your baseline. So you might just have a harder day than usual because it was a dopamine deprived day and instead of having a low baseline you primed your brain for a very stimulating day by having a high-dopamine activity in the morning.