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Re: Show HN: Hallucinopedia

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Post by yodon » Wed, May 06, 2026, 6:13 PM UTC

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Re: Show HN: Hallucinopedia

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Post by throw310822 » Wed, May 06, 2026, 6:15 PM UTC

Funny. Small improvement suggestion: the entry about "Glorbonian culinary arts" links to "the subterranean nation of Glorbonia". However upon clicking the link to "Glorbonia", an entry is generated claiming that "Glorbonia refers to a peculiar and largely uncatalogued form of sub-auditory resonance". It would be cool if some context were carried over from the referrer page so that there is some coherence between entries (ah, and some existing entries could be taken in account when generating new ones).

Re: Show HN: Hallucinopedia

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Post by jijilao » Wed, May 06, 2026, 6:16 PM UTC

wtf, I thought these were just anecdotes until I saw they were actually happening in Astoria. I used to visit in the summers and never heard about any of that! Stop the fake news

Re: Show HN: Hallucinopedia

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Post by znort_ » Wed, May 06, 2026, 6:17 PM UTC

JohnMakin wrote: post #36

b00ty4breakfast wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

context. sometimes things simply have to be broken to give way for something better. ymmv.

Re: Show HN: Hallucinopedia

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Post by gavmor » Wed, May 06, 2026, 6:17 PM UTC

Hm, the page generated seems inconsistent with the usage of the original link.

Re: Show HN: Hallucinopedia

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Post by mmooss » Wed, May 06, 2026, 6:18 PM UTC

LeoPanthera wrote: post #19

solarkraft wrote: post #12

Finally a more trustworthy version of Grokipedia!

I honestly forgot that Grokipedia existed. Did anyone ever use it?

Somebody showed me it appearing near the top of some of their DuckDuckGo queries.

Re: Show HN: Hallucinopedia

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Post by anonymousiam » Wed, May 06, 2026, 6:20 PM UTC

JohnMakin wrote: post #4

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

It's probably only harmful to the AI scrapers that train from the web. Most people will understand the purpose of this -- to poison LLM training in a humorous way, which is really easy to do. It exemplifies a major weakness in modern day AI.

Re: Show HN: Hallucinopedia

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Post by mmooss » Wed, May 06, 2026, 6:20 PM UTC

bstrama wrote: post #40

driggs wrote: post #38

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

Yes, that would be the perfect touch. This is brilliant satire. We need more satire!

Re: Show HN: Hallucinopedia

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Post by driggs » Wed, May 06, 2026, 6:21 PM UTC

This site is going to be expensive when a web crawler hits it. A honey pot that burns tokens.

Re: Show HN: Hallucinopedia

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Post by mmooss » Wed, May 06, 2026, 6:23 PM UTC

arduanika wrote: post #26

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

> Edit: Oh look, there's an article about the YC! https://halupedia.com/y-combinator

This should be on YC's About page.