Wikihack
HackerTube, but for Wikipedia articles mentioned on HN
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After seeing Karpathy's Hackertube and Hackerbooks, I just had to make Wikihack.I scraped all mentions of wikipedia on hackernews and ranked them, and turn them into a scrollable feed to make it a bit more easy to digest / interact with. You can see where people submitted the articles and where people mentioned it in comments.The top shows the most frequently linked articles.Random is random but slightly weighted towards the more frequently linked articles (a little bit like Wikipedia actually).Rising is ranked towards the past 12 months.The entire site is served only through the frontend -- I'll add more features if people enjoy this!
HN · launched Nov 2, 2026 · 339 upvotes (top 3%) · 0 views
Niche: novelty and humor web apps · 175 launches, 12 in the last 7 days ▼ -33% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Search & retrieval
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes It pulls HN mentions of Wikipedia via the HN Algolia API, ranks them, and renders a scrollable feed, which is simple data plumbing plus UI.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: WikiTok (wikitok.io), Bugscope (LadybugDB)
Concerns raised: doubts it will take off
Feature requests: hackertropes of HN user cliches
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 191 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #16 of 192 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 362 days after the earliest competitor.
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- HackerRepos · hn · 2026-11-05 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- 20 years of Hacker News discussions, clustered and visualized · hn · 2026-03-22 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- Hacker News · hn · 2026-11-01 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- Hacker News but for comments posted on HN · hn · 2026-11-02 · 19 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- Hacker Atlas · hn · 2026-09-25 · 86 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- HN Hall of Fame · hn · 2026-07-22 · 219 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Hacker Backlinks · hn · 2026-02-06 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.55
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