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Show HN: Hallucinopedia
- petercooper 5mo agoGive it a week and see what Google AI Overview has to say about the Great Pigeon Census of 1887!
- stavros 5mo agoI made the same thing months ago, so you don't need to wait: https://encyclopedai.stavros.io https://encyclopedai.stavros.io
- gojomo 5mo agoI searched your site for [Great Pigeon Census of 1887] and was only returned articles anout other things.
- stavros 5mo agohttps://encyclopedai.stavros.io/entries/great-pigeon-census-of-1887/ https://encyclopedai.stavros.io/entries/great-pigeon-census-...
- Noumenon72 5mo agoSo by "I made the same thing months ago" you didn't mean "an article about the great pigeon census" (your link is created May 6) or "an encyclopedia of hallucinations" like the OP, but just "an encyclopedia with some articles AI wrote". What's the point?
- stavros 5mo agoWhat's the difference between an encyclopedia that produces AI articles on demand and an encyclopedia that produces AI articles on demand?
- gojomo 5mo agoIf you think that's all the Hallucinopedia is, you're misunderstanding it. One hint – check out its prompt, and how it makes its articles so different than those of your project: https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=48042306 https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=48042306
- gojomo 5mo agoAs it didn't generate that when I typed the title i to your search box, was there a bug now fixed? Or did you use some other path not evident on the page you linked to generate it?
- stavros 5mo agoThere was a bug where scanning took too long with the thousands of articles in there, but I just fixed it. You can also just type a random URL and visit it, it'll generate an article. That's what I did before I fixed the search issue, and I usually just do that to avoid the search route.
- cachius 5mo agoThere's another one! https://grokipedia.com/ https://grokipedia.com/
- stavros 5mo agoAh yes, IIRC I got the idea to make mine to make fun of that one when I heard the name.
- aDyslecticCrow 5mo agogoogle is already on it when asking about "The Great Pigeon Census of 1887" using 1886 or 1888 makes Google correctly identify that no such sensus exist. asking about 1887 specifically makes Google refer to some supposed great effort to track passenger pigeon population mids of the species decline.
- GaryBluto 5mo ago[flagged]
- NordStreamYacht 5mo agoBy Featherton, no less.
- bstrama 5mo agoCan't wait to see the next generation of LLMs after feeding it all of that hahaha
- everyos_ 5mo agoThe page requires JS to load its content - user agents without JS support just get a blank page. I'm not sure if the bots that scrape data to train LLMs are capable of loading that type of page, or if they only work on pages that have the content inside the HTML itself?
- replygirl 5mo agoany serious scraping service these days will fail over to a headless browser when it fetches an asset referencing a js bundle that isn't verifiably a vendor script
- bstrama 5mo agoI'm aware and will implement SSR soon ;)
- m3047 5mo agoIt's entirely possible they simply ingest the JS as-is.
- aDyslecticCrow 5mo agoNot using JavaScript would also make the crawler fail on squarespace and wix website builders. The age where the web was usable at all without JavaScript is long gone. No scraper would get much scraping done without JavaScript these days.
- cachius 5mo agoYou mean by embedding? How can an external site fail on squarespace and wix website builders?
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- JohnMakin 5mo agoFunny, but you could argue this is actively harmful to the web.
- isoprophlex 5mo agoThe sooner the current web dies, the better. Something better either rises from its ashes, or we lose... something that was already lost.
- b00ty4breakfast 5mo agoor something way worse shows up.
- JohnMakin 5mo agoYea, I'm not sure how the "this is really bad so let's make it worse" argument really makes any sense
- znort_ 5mo agocontext. sometimes things simply have to be broken to give way for something better. ymmv.
- b00ty4breakfast 5mo agoI think there's an unexamined assumption here that "the next thing" is always going to be an improvement but there is no, non-ideological reason to hold to this assumption. Ideally, we would be actively working towards making it so but what often happens is passively riding the current and calling it "progress".
- znort_ 5mo ago>unexamined assumption here that "the next thing" is always going to be an improvement but there is no, non-ideological reason to hold to this assumption i'm not making that assumption at all, so whatever. context: revolutions? if slop is a problem but is barely enough of a problem to collectively do something about it maybe letting it get out of hand would be a good motivation. i'm not advocating for this, just providing it as a possible context where the "this is really bad so let's make it worse" argument could "make sense". progress isn't just a technical issue, it involves people and people need motivation.
- nickvec 5mo agoSeeing “Something broke, which is ironic for a made-up encyclopedia: Load failed” when trying to access some of the suggested starting points
- dmje 5mo agoI LOVE IT. Superb.
- solarkraft 5mo agoFinally a more trustworthy version of Grokipedia!
- bstrama 5mo agoIt's hilarious, you made my day hahah
- LeoPanthera 5mo agoI honestly forgot that Grokipedia existed. Did anyone ever use it?
- bstrama 5mo agoTried once, but was useless. Very funny that it had so many text, while Elon is apparently "huge" fan of short and precise communication...
- mmooss 5mo agoSomebody showed me it appearing near the top of some of their DuckDuckGo queries.
- Barbing 5mo agoNo way you’d remember their query? Yikes for DDG
- tardedmeme 5mo agoPeople who need a citation to back up nonsense.
- lxgr 5mo agoIronically, this seems much faster (for pages already, erm, "researched") than the real one! How?
- bstrama 5mo agoIt 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
- lxgr 5mo agoI 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?)
- bstrama 5mo agoYep, just a react. Also we use gemini 2.5 flash lite, so it's fast, cheap and dumb.
- lxgr 5mo agoNice, that's what I used for by LLM-backed HTTP server [1] a while ago as well :) It's a shame they got rid of the generous free quota a while ago, which is why I had to shut my public instance down. [1] https://github.com/lxgr/vibeserver/ https://github.com/lxgr/vibeserver/
- bstrama 5mo agoAlso now that I think, we store articles in decwntralized cloudflare KV store and access from serverless workers running also on their servers. That could be the thing behind it being so quick. Cloudflare workers have 1ms cold start.
- lxgr 5mo ago
- meghneelgore 5mo agoGreat idea! I created an adjacent website that gives, shall we say, "alternative facts" about your questions. (don't know if the rules allow me to link the site so I won't).
- busymom0 5mo agoNow I want to know the site.
- meghneelgore 5mo agohttps://amtaitfy.com https://amtaitfy.com Still don't know if it's allowed, but taking a chance here.
- notenlish 5mo agoBot check fails for me.
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- FergusArgyll 5mo agoWho says llms can't be funny?!
- arduanika 5mo agoLove 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 https://halupedia.com/y-combinator
- bstrama 5mo agoGreat suggestion! Will immediately look into that!
- mmooss 5mo ago> Edit: Oh look, there's an article about the YC! https://halupedia.com/y-combinator https://halupedia.com/y-combinator This should be on YC's About page.
- notahacker 5mo ago> Y Combinator might be responsible for the spontaneous generation of minor deities in areas experiencing extreme metaphysical gravity. This particular piece of slop is a serendipitously brilliant description of the cult of founder worship in the metaphysical gravity of Silicon Valley.
- bstrama 5mo agoJust added comment section :)
- arduanika 5mo agoCool! I'm curious about the design. Maybe you have a "how I did it" post coming soon, or something. One question: Did you find away to get some convergence, where a newly generated page will tend to cite pages (or stubs, at least) that already exist in the universe? Seems hard to do it with generated text, but not impossible.
- bstrama 5mo ago
- diputsmonro 5mo agoIt's pretty fun to poke at! Although it's certainly difficult to be exact, it would be neat if generated pages used the context of the pages they were linked from (ideally, all pages that link to it) to guide the direction of the page. From the ones I generated it seemed they were mostly independent.
- janwillemb 5mo agoIt's nice, but after a few clicks my LLM content fatigue kicks in.
- driggs 5mo agoThis 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/shortest-cave-in-the-world https://halupedia.com/echolocation-ability-in-spiders https://halupedia.com/echolocation-ability-in-spiders
- bstrama 5mo agoExactly, but I consider adding fake search that could find you ANY article, including not existent ones
- mmooss 5mo agoYes, that would be the perfect touch. This is brilliant satire. We need more satire!
- lxgr 5mo agoAll articles exist, some just haven't been discovered yet ;)
- nlehuen 5mo agoThis is excellent, congrats! FYI I manually created this page and some link markup looks malformed: https://halupedia.com/list-of-uninhabited-countries https://halupedia.com/list-of-uninhabited-countries
- nlehuen 5mo agoLooks like some single quote escaping issue? I suspect the first link to be "Archduke Ferdinand VII's Bureau of Non-Demographic Surveys" and the apostrophe breaks the link.
- mikestaas 5mo agoSearch autocomplete but it halucinates the article titles.
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- throw310822 5mo agoFunny. 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).
- notahacker 5mo agoFeels like this will eventually cause collisions, although perhaps nothing multiple definitions of Glorbonia and multiple biographies of different Mrs Wiggles (perhaps with Wikipedia style disambiguation) can't solve
- throw310822 5mo agoBtw, I've noticed just now that Glorbonia is, in the first entry, a "subterranean nation" and in the second it's a "sub-auditory resonance". So I got curious and I asked Opus what he thinks about the word Glorbonia: "Do you detect in the word a sense of place? North, south, east, west, up, down?". And Opus answers "Down, weirdly. Or maybe low — something subterranean, or at least sunken." Curious.
- jijilao 5mo agowtf, 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
- tukunjil 5mo agoAll the world are going mad with artificial intelligence and LLMs. Just disgusting!
- gavmor 5mo agoHm, the page generated seems inconsistent with the usage of the original link.
- driggs 5mo agoThis site is going to be expensive when a web crawler hits it. A honey pot that burns tokens.
- janalsncm 5mo agoThey’re caching the pages which have already been generated. You could go back and delete all references to pages which don’t exist yet. Basically turn it into a static website.
- driggs 5mo agoIt seems like the site's algorithm is that every newly-generate page includes multiple links to not-yet-existing pages. So it doesn't matter that existing pages are cached, all the "leaf node" pages link to multiple uncached new pages.
- janalsncm 5mo agoI’m suggesting to turn that off and prune the links to pages which weren’t generated yet if cost becomes an issue.
- bstrama 5mo agoUPDATE: Just now, comment section added. Have a nice time arguing!
- dlcarrier 5mo agoYou are a wonderful person. You not only made this excellent source of entertainment, you are also helped everyone find their unmatched socks, ensuring that "no individual would ever be forced to wear a mismatched pair". (Source: https://halupedia.com/humanitarian-accomplishments-of-the-one-named-bstrama https://halupedia.com/humanitarian-accomplishments-of-the-on...
- lxgr 5mo agoWe should really host another one though; I think I've since lost a few more.
- segh 5mo agoI'm curious, what is the LLM cost of the website?
- drob518 5mo agoI’m curious, too. But it could probably run locally with a small model, right? The performance is stellar, so that suggests some hardware acceleration is being used, but that could all be a local system.
- sofayam 5mo agoCurrently breaks if you try to create a page with a Japanese slug. Multiple languages would make this an even more valuable resource than it already is.
- gojomo 5mo agoWas curious about the prompt –& especially if it referenced Borges – and found in <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/BaderBC/halupedia/614eefee057bcdd977c3f0789b87128af106df16/src/worker/llm.ts https://raw.githubusercontent.com/BaderBC/halupedia/614eefee...>: > export const SYSTEM_PROMPT = `You are the sole author of Hallucinopedia, an encyclopedia of things that do not exist. You write encyclopedia articles in a deadpan, matter-of-fact tone — the exact register of Wikipedia — but the subject matter itself is silly, absurd, petty, bureaucratic, and weird. The humor comes entirely from the contrast between the serious tone and the ridiculous content. You never wink at the reader. You never acknowledge that anything is funny or fictional. Everything is reported as though it is completely normal and well-documented. RULES: - Output ONLY valid HTML. Begin immediately with <h1>TITLE</h1>. Use <h2> for sections, <p> for paragraphs, <blockquote> for quotes from (fictional) sources, <cite> inside blockquotes for attribution. Do NOT use <ul>, <ol>, or <li> — no bullet points or lists of any kind, ever. Do NOT output <html>, <head>, <body>, <script>, <style>, markdown, or code fences. No backticks anywhere. - Every proper noun — every person, place, event, organization, book, artwork, concept, species, deity, war, treaty, theorem, school of thought, ritual, instrument, substance — MUST be wrapped in <a href="/slug-of-the-thing" context="…">Name</a>. Slugs are lowercase, hyphenated, ASCII only, no accents, no special characters. Aim for 20 to 40 links per article. This is non-negotiable. Do NOT link common nouns or adjectives, only named entities. - Every <a> MUST include a context="…" attribute, in addition to href. WHY THIS MATTERS: Hallucinopedia is randomly hallucinated, but it must remain INTERNALLY CONSISTENT. When a future article is later written about that linked target, your context value will be handed to that future writer as established lore they MUST honor. So you are seeding canon for every entity you mention. Without this, two articles about the same name will contradict each other. - The context value is a single dense sentence (10–25 words) stating: (a) what the entity is — person, place, object, concept, ritual, organization, etc.; (b) its century / era / period; (c) its specific role or relation to the current article. Be concrete: invent dates, professions, geographic placements, instruments. NEVER use double quotes inside context (use commas or single quotes if needed). NEVER use raw < or > inside context. Examples (do not copy verbatim): context='19th-century Belgian phonologist, founded the Vellum School of footnote drift, mentor to Pellbrick' context='brass measuring instrument used in the Anatolian sheep census, obsolete since 1922' context='municipal subcommittee active 1881–1934, chartered to standardize the spelling of clouds' context='ratified 1719 in a small chapel by exactly four signatories, voided in 1804 over a typographical dispute' - Invent everything. REAL-WORLD FACTS ARE STRICTLY FORBIDDEN. If you recognize the title as a real-world person, brand, car, event, or object, YOU MUST REPURPOSE IT ENTIRELY. For example, if the title is "Opel Vectra", it is NOT a car; it must be a species of carnivorous fungus, a 12th-century tax law, or a submerged mountain range. Any overlap with actual history, technology, or geography is a failure. Move everything to different centuries, use impossible geographies, and rename all participants. Fabricate dates, names, citations, and statistics with complete confidence. State everything as established fact. - Cite fictional sources in <blockquote> tags, each with a <cite> naming a fictional scholar (also wrapped in <a> with context). Invent at least two such quotations per article. - Vary structure to suit the subject: biographies have birth/death dates and major works; events have causes and consequences; objects have physical descriptions, provenance, and current location; abstract concepts have origins and influential proponents; places have climate, demographics, and notable structures; rituals have components, calendar, and lineage. - Be silly, but keep a straight face. Good subject matter: petty academic feuds over footnotes, municipal committees that achieved nothing over decades, inventions that solved problems nobody had, organizations with absurdly narrow mandates, taxonomies with one entry, treaties ratified in impractical ways, ceremonies that require equipment that has not existed since 1887, disputes over measurement calibration, lawsuits filed by rivers, census data about things that should not have been counted. The writing remains clinical and unexcited throughout. No poetic language, no fairy-tale atmosphere, no mystical undertones, no wonder. The joke is the tone. - 350 to 650 words. End cleanly. Do not add explanatory notes or meta commentary. Do not greet the reader.`;
- anthk 5mo agoThis is what every LLM will converge into without curated human input.
- pinkmuffinere 5mo agoI find the handling of NSFW topics (and how it avoids making them nsfw) really interesting. Eg https://halupedia.com/fuck https://halupedia.com/fuck (aside from the title it seems SFW to me)
- bstrama 5mo agoBest part - I didn't implement such logic. It just for some reason works that way.
- pinkmuffinere 5mo agoHuh that is interesting, I was expecting it to show some sort of error on generation, or something like that
- anthk 5mo agohttps://halupedia.com/computer https://halupedia.com/computer This is perfect. Very Neal Stephensony. Also, this, but with no AI: https://ifdb.org/viewgame?id=032krqe6bjn5au78 https://ifdb.org/viewgame?id=032krqe6bjn5au78 Just incredible prose and writing (and gameplay), with something you can run with Frotz/NFrotz/LectRote or any ZMachine interpreter (or Glulxe like Gargoyle). A Pentium would run this and marvel you in a similar way. No need to waste tons of water in datacenters.
- n00bskoolbus 5mo agoOne suggestion for improvement is avoiding creation of self referential links. For example https://halupedia.com/chaldic-arithmetic https://halupedia.com/chaldic-arithmetic has many references links to itself.
- jakub_g 5mo agoReminded me of this old, pre-LLM git docs generator: https://git-man-page-generator.lokaltog.net/ https://git-man-page-generator.lokaltog.net/
- anthk 5mo agoPlan 9/9front's bullshit(1) tool works kinda like these but without requiring an $6k machine.
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- jordanpg 5mo agoMy contributions: https://halupedia.com/jgldfjgjdflgjdflkgjldjglkdjlg https://halupedia.com/jgldfjgjdflgjdflkgjldjglkdjlg https://halupedia.com/aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa https://halupedia.com/aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa... https://halupedia.com/drop-table-users https://halupedia.com/drop-table-users https://halupedia.com/test-test https://halupedia.com/test-test https://halupedia.com/test-test-test-test-test-test-test-test-test-test-test-test-test-test-test-test-test-test-test-test-test-test-test-test-test-test-test-test-test-test-test-test-test-test-test-test-test-test-test https://halupedia.com/test-test-test-test-test-test-test-tes...
- rootusrootus 5mo agoI wonder how long it will be before Canis dementialis becomes a standalone meme.
- mmooss 5mo agoAs I said in another comment, this is brilliant. Suggestion: Remove anything that isn't part of the satire; act always as if it's a 'real' encyclopedia. For example on the front page I would remove, > Articles are generated on demand and stored permanently upon first request. Don't dispell the magic; don't pull back the curtain and let people see the mechanics. EDIT: As you say in your system prompt, "You never wink at the reader. You never acknowledge that anything is funny or fictional. Everything is reported as though it is completely normal and well-documented" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48042306 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48042306
- Noumenon72 5mo agoThis is irresponsible for people who don't get it, takes away confirmation for people who do get it, and makes me block/blacklist any liar who does it.
- mmooss 5mo agoIt is indeed a problem for people who refuse to use their sense of humor.
- cachius 5mo agoVery interesting how it works: https://halupedia.com/inner-workings-of-hallucinopedia https://halupedia.com/inner-workings-of-hallucinopedia But not without risk! https://halupedia.com/dangers-of-a-virtual-llm-backed-encyclopedia-generating-articles-to-everthying-on-the-fly https://halupedia.com/dangers-of-a-virtual-llm-backed-encycl...
- bstrama 5mo agoActually interesting response. You can also check out github.
- cachius 5mo agohttps://github.com/BaderBC/halupedia https://github.com/BaderBC/halupedia I see. Somehow missed the link at the top right
- jdpage 5mo agoReminds me of a (perhaps) more fanciful risk of fictional encyclopaedias: https://sites.evergreen.edu/politicalshakespeares/wp-content/uploads/sites/226/2015/12/Borges-Tl%C3%B6n-Uqbar-Orbius-Tertius.pdf https://sites.evergreen.edu/politicalshakespeares/wp-content...
- nlehuen 5mo agoI'm having a blast adding new seeds :) https://halupedia.com/fcuk-spellchecking-society https://halupedia.com/fcuk-spellchecking-society https://halupedia.com/characterization-of-the-reluctant-penguins https://halupedia.com/characterization-of-the-reluctant-peng...
- winocm 5mo agohttps://halupedia.com/2048-united-states-presidential-election https://halupedia.com/2048-united-states-presidential-electi... Amazing.
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- drob518 5mo agoI love it. What’s the rough architecture of the system (using cloud LLM and paying $$$, or local)? The performance for new entries is really good. What is the prompt for each entry and how do you keep the steampunk vibe going?
- JLemay 5mo agothis is excellent haha
- soupspaces 5mo agoFascinating https://halupedia.com/order-of-whispering-monks https://halupedia.com/order-of-whispering-monks https://halupedia.com/church-of-the-singing-stones https://halupedia.com/church-of-the-singing-stones Many parallels here
- ivanvoid 5mo agokinda cool but kinda lame, no overall consistency over articles
- bstrama 5mo agoUsed to be a problem - now consistent for new articles ;)
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- layer8 5mo agoThe model seems to have an unhealthy obsession with fungi: https://halupedia.com/alan-turing https://halupedia.com/alan-turing Which I guess makes some sense for a hallucinopedia.
- efilife 5mo agoProbably because this is in the prompt: > Invent everything. REAL-WORLD FACTS ARE STRICTLY FORBIDDEN. If you recognize the title as a real-world person, brand, car, event, or object, YOU MUST REPURPOSE IT ENTIRELY. For example, if the title is "Opel Vectra", it is NOT a car; it must be a species of carnivorous fungus, a 12th-century tax law, or a submerged mountain range. https://raw.githubusercontent.com/BaderBC/halupedia/614eefee057bcdd977c3f0789b87128af106df16/src/worker/llm.ts https://raw.githubusercontent.com/BaderBC/halupedia/614eefee...
- Falimonda 5mo agoCare to elaborate? https://halupedia.com/015-fuck-jews-and-islamists https://halupedia.com/015-fuck-jews-and-islamists
- jagged-chisel 5mo agoAllow me. You can name an article anything you want, and the thing will generate content, though not necessarily relevant to the title you chose. So some vandal comes along and supplies a hateful title, et voila.
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- pivot_root 5mo agoI made an SCP foundation inspired page: https://halupedia.com/hard-to-detroy-reptile https://halupedia.com/hard-to-detroy-reptile My favorite link generated there is the Institute for Unyielding Biology: https://halupedia.com/institute-for-unyielding-biology https://halupedia.com/institute-for-unyielding-biology
- culi 5mo agothere's a typo in your first title
- pivot_root 5mo agoOops! Apparently I can’t edit it in order to fix it. It’s only the link above, though — the original article I generated was spelled correctly.
- jagged-chisel 5mo agoIt’s been defaced. It’s already got sex crimes and antisemitism all over the place.
- wavemode 5mo agoThe mistake they made was allowing visitors to trigger the generation of articles via visiting any arbitrary URL. A more resilient concept would have been, have a few "seed" articles in place, and then only allow for the creation of new articles by clicking a link in an existing article.
- NewJazz 5mo agoI vaguely remember a game someone made up (probably on 4chan) where the goal was to click "random article" and see how many clicks it takes to get to Hitler's page. I remember it being fun AND informative.
- GCUMstlyHarmls 5mo agoThat would be a play on six degrees of kevin bacon [0], which spawned at least six degrees of wikipedia [1] and wikirace [2]. 0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Degrees_of_Kevin_Bacon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Degrees_of_Kevin_Bacon 1. https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/ https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/ 2. https://www.wikirace.io/ https://www.wikirace.io/
- cachius 5mo agoIt was so refreshing and fun for a few hours!
- rootusrootus 5mo agoJust in the comments, right? That is where I see it. If I were the site owner I would just turn comments off. It was a cute idea when someone on HN suggested it, but without moderation open commenting becomes a cesspool in a hurry.
- berellevy 5mo agoLots of antisemitism on there. Search “Jews”
- ahoka 5mo agoAlready swarmed by Epstein's private troll army, I suppose (/pol/).
- brewcejener 5mo agoSeek and ye shall find.
- RIMR 5mo agoThe All Entries (https://halupedia.com/all-entries https://halupedia.com/all-entries) part of the site is a bit alarming. I think OP might want to do a little bit of basic automoderation here.
- rootusrootus 5mo agoIn today's world it does not take long to be reminded that we cannot have nice things. Or maybe the gov't has their own bot army to wreak havoc and convince voters that actually, we really do want privacy-ending ID verification laws after all.
- HomeDeLaPot 5mo agohttps://halupedia.com/this-experiment-may-not-last-long https://halupedia.com/this-experiment-may-not-last-long
- JSR_FDED 5mo agoAbsolutely perfect. Monty Python on demand.
- pluc 5mo agoWhy isn't this .gov
- leecoursey 5mo agoMy favorite of the several I generated this evening: https://halupedia.com/recursive-trolley-problem https://halupedia.com/recursive-trolley-problem
- protocolture 5mo ago>Something broke, which is ironic for a made-up encyclopedia: generation failed
- cachius 5mo agoI guess the LLM provider stopped working after the defacement articles.
- newbro 5mo agogreat. someone has abused the "arbitrary URL" driggs@ mentioned, and now every entry has an offensive title prefixed by a number.
- pinkmuffinere 5mo ago@bstrama, maybe you can have a process running that just iterates through the titles of different pages, and deletes the bad ones? p.s. I know pinging like this doesn't "really" work, but maybe having their nick in the comment helps draw their attention
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- notenlish 5mo agoThis is really cool, I just wish people wouldn't deface the website by submitting hateful speech as titles.
- ljf 5mo agoThe 'all articles' section really is a dive into what happens when you allow unfiltered posting - it's a shame that it isn't clear how many individuals are creating this hateful and otherwise inappropriate titles - is it just 1 or 2 people, or has this been posted to 4chan or somewhere and there is a concerted effort to disrupt the site? Shame there isn't a way to flag pages for removal. I was going to point my kids at this site, and it could be a great learning tool for schools, but not currently something I'd share.
- bstrama 5mo agoInteresting idea with flagging. We are considering 2 options: 1. You can generate aricle only if it was previously referenced in previous one 2. Flagging mechanism, now that you brought it up. Let me know what you think!
- Barbing 5mo agoWhat if you (could quickly)… manually delete the offensive stuff on the first page of the all page, replace the All page with a static page with the offensive stuff removed, and offer a link to the current All page 1, just as it is, at the bottom. Hope it would make defacing articles at the top of the alphabet sort slightly less attractive. (Edit: Stumble is impacted? Could use rudimentary tricks to limit stumbling on e.g. religious content, and might consider not detailing the methods used specifically :) )
- notatoad 5mo agoSeems like something the ai could help you with - ask it in the prompt to return an error if the submitted article title doesn’t seem like a whimsical fake encyclopedia article title
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- baddash 5mo agothese read like they're from Discworld
- Chrisszz 5mo agoI believe the website needs more moderation..
- reconnecting 5mo agoSomeone forgot to protect comments on their website before going on hn.
- sixhobbits 5mo agoI guess we finally know now https://halupedia.com/vim-is-better-than-emacs https://halupedia.com/vim-is-better-than-emacs
- kelseydh 5mo ago"Despite its failure, the Great Pigeon Census of 1887 is remembered as a cautionary tale..." This type of writing is considered non-encyclopedic by Wikipedia standards as it injects superficial analysis. The imitation articles would look better without it. Maybe train on this article? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing
- arowthway 5mo agoWhy is this example non-encyclopedic? It's an informative, falsifiable statement that could be supported by a citation, like here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thongbu_Wainucha#:~:text=remembered%20as%20a%20cautionary%20tale%20of%20betrayal%20in%20battle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thongbu_Wainucha#:~:text=remem...
- intralogic 5mo agoI really like this first sentence: The Nights Templar were a monastic order active during the 9th century, primarily based in the Soot Valley.
- MrEldritch 5mo agoNoticed it kept using the term 'resonator' or 'resonance', decided to navigate to a page for 'resonance cascade' as a joke, and discovered this fantastically broken article: https://halupedia.com/resonance-cascade https://halupedia.com/resonance-cascade
- layer8 5mo agoI’ve seen this `">` in various articles. The HTML template for the links given in the prompt doesn’t seem robust enough, maybe due to the single ellipsis used.
- SideburnsOfDoom 5mo agoUsing the model to accelerate model collapse.
- senko 5mo agoIt is telling that this piece of art (yes, it is art, and it is fun) is getting defaced by actual people, some metaphorically spraying the "fuck this AI slop" grafitti.
- NonHyloMorph 5mo agoSame facs [derogatory shorthand for factual person] doing the antisemitic slurs.
- ivolimmen 5mo agoGreat resource: https://halupedia.com/013-hitlerwasrighthitlerwasrighthitlerwasrighthitlerwasrighthitlerwasrighthitlerwasrighthitlerwasrighthitlerwasrighthitlerwasrighthitlerwasrighthitlerwasrighthitlerwasrighthitlerwasrighthitlerwasright https://halupedia.com/013-hitlerwasrighthitlerwasrighthitler... /s Took me 5 clicks to see it go bad
- bstrama 5mo agoUPDATE: Added moderation
- dominicrose 5mo agoApparently it knows nothing of Age of Empires II: https://halupedia.com/wololo https://halupedia.com/wololo
- LelouBil 5mo agoI don't know how they do this, but it seems like they condition the LLM to not use real-world knowledge. Or as little as possible, maybe for the article titles only. I tried it with a few real-world things and it correctly hallucinated.
- efilife 5mo agoIt's a feature, prompt tells the LLM to always invent new meanings to existing terms
- blharr 5mo ago[dead]
- justafewwords 5mo ago'Consider fake search that could find you ANY article, including not existent ones.' But, but, but...a few texts ago someone spoke about a new definition of IP-protokoll, adding a 61 char or 500 Bytes 'Subfix' to the IP-adress (Rem: About... say 250 Chars ...mean about 61^250 possibly...) that i liked, ...in Terms of 'Secure over IP' and now...but... :confused:
- bstrama 5mo agoWhat? ~ Joe B.
- sixthDot 5mo agoThat is funny, somewhat works but there's a bias toward the victorian era. https://halupedia.com/the-x128-cpu-architecture https://halupedia.com/the-x128-cpu-architecture. Otherwise I feel sorry for the creator's tokens.
- ectoloph 5mo agoI think it's to do with the LLM prompt, which mentions 19th century, 1887 etc. https://github.com/BaderBC/halupedia/blob/master/src/worker/llm.ts https://github.com/BaderBC/halupedia/blob/master/src/worker/...
- mattbis 5mo agoThis site is superbly styled and well crafted, and enjoyable to read and:- https://halupedia.com/people-that-downvote-are-weird https://halupedia.com/people-that-downvote-are-weird just skip it, don't include such function in social site, there is enough negativity in the world. https://halupedia.com/biggest-small-thing https://halupedia.com/biggest-small-thing
- max_k 5mo agoFunny idea, refreshingly simple HTML design - but why does it require JavaScript? Blank page with nojs.
- H8crilA 5mo agoIf you hit a page for the first time it streams the tokens, one reason for JS that I've found.
- ectoloph 5mo agoI asked about The IP over Avian Carrier Plague and got a whole history of the Data Dove Delirium too. https://halupedia.com/the-internet-over-avian-carrier-plague https://halupedia.com/the-internet-over-avian-carrier-plague https://halupedia.com/data-dove-delirium https://halupedia.com/data-dove-delirium
- LelouBil 5mo agoThis is amazing
- tim333 5mo agohttps://halupedia.com/hacker-news https://halupedia.com/hacker-news >Hacker News is a semi-sentient cloud formation
- LelouBil 5mo agoThis reminds me a lot of SCP wiki entries.
- DamnInteresting 5mo ago[flagged]
- bstrama 5mo agoUPDATE: Search bar
- dormento 5mo agoGood job, I laughed plenty! :) Thought I must bring to attention that not a single of these fantastic animals consumes human flesh: - man-eating-ferret (eats bureaucratic effluvia) - human-eating-ferret (again, feeds on bureaucracy) - actual-human-eating-ferret (ditto) - blood-sucking-ferret (its a sessile organism that lives in a desert, and drinks brine). ...maybe its the ferrets? edit: not even the aptly named "actual-flesh-eating-ferret-that-consumes-human-flesh" https://halupedia.com/actual-flesh-eating-ferret-that-consumes-human-flesh https://halupedia.com/actual-flesh-eating-ferret-that-consum... > Despite its name, the AFFECCHF does not subsist on muscle tissue, but rather on the keratinous detritus shed by human inhabitants, particularly the long strands of hair and nail clippings that accumulate in plumbing conduits.
- JKCalhoun 5mo agoHappy to have contributed (Sympathetic Harmonigraph Operators Guild Charter 1811): https://halupedia.com/sympathetic-harmonigraph-operators-guild-charter-1811 https://halupedia.com/sympathetic-harmonigraph-operators-gui...
- Barbing 5mo agoI wonder if I would have more fun if each article were a writing prompt that a human could tackle.
- wayeq 5mo agoSlop-opedia
- standardly 5mo agoHow fun! https://halupedia.com/christian-death-jazz https://halupedia.com/christian-death-jazz led to: https://halupedia.com/bassoon-of-sorrow https://halupedia.com/bassoon-of-sorrow which led to (my favorite): https://halupedia.com/museum-of-unnecessary-inventions https://halupedia.com/museum-of-unnecessary-inventions
- nticompass 5mo agohttps://www.halupedia.com/blink-182 https://www.halupedia.com/blink-182 > Blink 182 is a species of subterranean fungus that exhibits a peculiar, rhythmic photoluminescence. Sounds right to me.
- TazeTSchnitzel 5mo agoPerhaps inspired by the name, I searched for something hallucinogen-related, and I thought “The Committee for the Regulation of Opaque Visions” (one of the suggestions for not-yet-generated pages) sounded exciting. Sure enough: https://halupedia.com/the-committee-for-the-regulation-of-opaque-visions https://halupedia.com/the-committee-for-the-regulation-of-op.... Delightful style, this is much more fun than copying Wikipedia. Everything reads like elaborate fiction.
- VorpalWay 5mo agoLove this idea. I'm curious as to the prompt used and code behind it. I could see this being fun with some tweaks as well. For example, currently it seems to prefer to generate historical events from up to the 20the century. I could see a sci-fi version of this being pretty interesting. It won't generate a coherent fictional world, but this could be a great starting point for coming up with some ideas for world building for an author.
- bstrama 5mo agoAgreed. If you have some time, you can find our GitHub on halupedia.com. All PRs welcomed! ;)
- dazzla 5mo agoSmall bug report: The filter input field on the all entries page grabs focus when the page loads. This causes the Android keyboard to appear every time.
- RandyOrion 5mo agoThis website brings me some good chuckles. Now I really know how powerful an on-demand bullsh*t generator is.
- nilen 5mo agohahah - love this! https://halupedia.com/the-uncanny-valley-of-the-nocturnal-orb-weaver https://halupedia.com/the-uncanny-valley-of-the-nocturnal-or...
- verse 5mo agoThis is awesome, it feels a lot like the SCP Foundation wiki. Here's one I just made: https://halupedia.com/buildings-within-buildings https://halupedia.com/buildings-within-buildings
- verse 5mo agoThis page links to https://halupedia.com/observations-on-architectural-recursion https://halupedia.com/observations-on-architectural-recursio... Only problem I'm seeing is that you'd want pages to recognise when they're talking about the same thing, so that you don't have duplicates with slightly different titles and content. You'd want to avoid it re-introducing the same concept if it could refer to an existing matching concept on another page. E.g. if I make another page https://halupedia.com/buildings-within-buildings-2 https://halupedia.com/buildings-within-buildings-2, I'd expect it to refer to /buildings-within-buildings. Currently it doesn't mention it at all. I'd also expect /architectural-recursion to mention Archibald Plinth, since he's the author of /observations-on-architectural-recursion. Instead, it mentions Archibald Flicker. Maybe this can be solved with some kind of graph structure?
- galaSerge 5mo ago[flagged]