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Re: Wikenigma is an encyclopedia for topics with unknown answers

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Post by internetter »

rzzzwilson wrote: post #4

Doesn't look good: Resource Limit Is Reached The website is temporarily unable to service your request as it exceeded resource limit. Please try again later.

I think it's on a shoddy webserver and is already being hn'd. A refresh fixed it for me.

Certainly not confidence inspiring but from the pages I visited it seems to be an excellent aggregator. Short summary, long enough for me to gadge if I want to head to Wikipedia.

Thank god for that, was worried it was going to be another wiki that is essentially just an unmaintained Wikipedia fork slowly diverging away

Re: Wikenigma is an encyclopedia for topics with unknown answers

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Post by entwife »

A brief review of a single Wikenigma article suggests that it doesn't cover known topics particularly well. The mechanism for color vision in humans is poorly understood. We do know that there are four ocular photoreceptors, and at least one extraocular photosensitive cell in humans. The Wikenigma article erroneously states that "human eyes have three different types of retinal cells (cone cells) which respond to light". Of the several human photoreceptors, it is accurate that cone cells respond to light intensities at which we perceive color, but these are not the only human photoreceptors.

Re: Wikenigma is an encyclopedia for topics with unknown answers

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Post by jokowueu »

internetter wrote: post #5
rzzzwilson wrote: post #4

Doesn't look good: Resource Limit Is Reached The website is temporarily unable to service your request as it exceeded resource limit. Please try again later.

I think it's on a shoddy webserver and is already being hn'd. A refresh fixed it for me. Certainly not confidence inspiring but from the pages I visited it seems to be an excellent aggregator. Short summary, long enough for me to gadge if I want to head to Wikipedia. Thank god for that, was worried it was going to be another wiki that is essentially just an unmaintained Wikipedia fork slowly diverging away

How many users on HN are there that this keeps happening ?

A few hundred in a few minutes is enough to take down a website? I've noticed that this keeps happening .

Re: Wikenigma is an encyclopedia for topics with unknown answers

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Post by pc86 »

jokowueu wrote: post #8
internetter wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think it's on a shoddy webserver and is already being hn'd. A refresh fixed it for me. Certainly not confidence inspiring but from the pages I visited it seems to be an excellent aggregator. Short summary, long enough for me to gadge if I want to head to Wikipedia. Thank god for that, was worried it was going to be another wiki that is essentially just an unmaintained Wikipedia fork slowly diverging away

How many users on HN are there that this keeps happening ? A few hundred in a few minutes is enough to take down a website? I've noticed that this keeps happening .

If you're on a $2/mo shared host I'm sure 50 visits in a short enough period is enough to toast the server for a bit.

Front-page HN articles can result in tens of thousands of unique visits[0] and several hundred simultaneous users. It's not hard to see how 200-300 can throttle an otherwise unoptimized site.

[0] https://medium.com/@ketacode/the-impact-of-appearing-on-hns-...

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