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Re: Show HN: Hallucinopedia

#31

Love it! It feels very Borges! Feature request: also be able to click on the Talk page to see the controversies. I don't always want to trust the article itself as the final word. Edit: Oh look, there's an article about the YC! https://halupedia.com/y-combinator

Great suggestion! Will immediately look into that!

Re: Show HN: Hallucinopedia

#33

Funny, but you could argue this is actively harmful to the web.

The sooner the current web dies, the better. Something better either rises from its ashes, or we lose... something that was already lost.

or something way worse shows up.

Re: Show HN: Hallucinopedia

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Ironically, this seems much faster (for pages already, erm, "researched") than the real one! How?

It generates articles only once. So once it's generated, it never perish. Logic looks like: If article exist -> show it If not -> generate and save

I get that, but how does it serve the generated and cached ones seemingly faster than Wikipedia? (My guess is that single-page applications, which this one seems to be, just need less round trips between navigations or something?)

Re: Show HN: Hallucinopedia

#36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The sooner the current web dies, the better. Something better either rises from its ashes, or we lose... something that was already lost.

or something way worse shows up.

Yea, I'm not sure how the "this is really bad so let's make it worse" argument really makes any sense

Re: Show HN: Hallucinopedia

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

It generates articles only once. So once it's generated, it never perish. Logic looks like: If article exist -> show it If not -> generate and save

I get that, but how does it serve the generated and cached ones seemingly faster than Wikipedia? (My guess is that single-page applications, which this one seems to be, just need less round trips between navigations or something?)

Yep, just a react. Also we use gemini 2.5 flash lite, so it's fast, cheap and dumb.

Re: Show HN: Hallucinopedia

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This is fantastic. I couldn't find any obvious way to search for a new page, but you can simply bang out any arbitrary URL slug and the new article will be hallucinated fresh, eg: https://halupedia.com/shortest-cave-in-the-world https://halupedia.com/echolocation-ability-in-spiders

Exactly, but I consider adding fake search that could find you ANY article, including not existent ones
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