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Show HN: Discover Wikipedia articles popular on Hacker News

140 points by octopus143 4mo ago

josters 4mo ago
Nicely done! Would be interesting to sort by upvotes and/or comment count as well.
- moehm 4mo ago
  I have something similar: https://www.mostdiscussed.com/popular https://www.mostdiscussed.com/popular
captn3m0 4mo ago
Other modes worth trying: "Mailing Lists", "Research Papers"
- octopus143 4mo ago
  yes, absolutley, I was looking into it yesterday and there is a lot of potential
mdp2021 4mo ago
> Discover Wikipedia articles popular on Hacker News Wikipedia articles _and YT videos_. Amazing result, very precious, just skimming in it for a few minutes was immensely enriching.
san4mus 4mo ago
I didn't know about this, thanks for sharing.
tacone 4mo ago
Looks great, especially on mobile, congrats!
gnatman 4mo ago
Cool! I’ve been using this bookmark for years: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=wikipedia.org https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=wikipedia.org
- capitainenemo 4mo ago
  Which is denser on information, faster to read, more accessible and works without javascript. I did whitelist the orangecrumb domain for JS temporarily though. Does look neat, but not the the sort of interface I'm into.
  - lukan 4mo ago
    "Which is denser on information" Depends, it mostly shows those entries that were not popular or even flagged.
    - capitainenemo 4mo ago
      ... true. it's frustrating that /from supports site= but not points= and /over supports points= but not site= Sometimes HN is a bit too minimalist for no good reason IMO. Well, there's always running curl on the API. Maybe someone out there has made a nice minimalist non-JS interface that merges /from and /over or otherwise uses the API in a simple HTML wrapper.
- esafak 4mo ago
  If you want more than that you can use HN's BigQuery free dataset. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40644563 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40644563
h4kunamata 4mo ago
Wikepedia, the most untrustworthy source ever, cases and cases of people who gained access to the article and completely changed it with fake information: 1. Assassin's Creed video game: A guy changed Japanese history by introducing a black samurai. The whole dramas was so bad that Janapense officials got involved, and one of the reasons Ubisoft Studio which was already broke due to DEI, went even more bankrupt. 2. A lawyer changed specific laws on Wikipedia and waited, as expected, judges were caught using the "fabricated law" against real cases with real consequences. I could go on and on, but hey, you do you :)
- TZubiri 4mo ago
  A technology that is used up to a million times a day is bad, here's the proof, two times it has failed:
  - glenstein 4mo ago
    A tale as old as time. I don't just want to know the instances of harm, I want to know how representative they are supposed to be. And I think people who have thought through the latter question aren't the types to do the former.
    - TZubiri 4mo ago
      In neither cases it was really a flaw of wikipedia, the model is clear, contributions should include content and sources, and it's the responsibility of the reader to check the reference. I get it if bullshit is uploaded and a layman is fooled, but both cases involve trained professionals who know very damn well what a source is, judges and journalists, and it was principally their failure, not of Wikipedia.
      - glenstein 4mo ago
        Exactly. If someone thinks this is a fatal flaw, they're kind of telling on themselves about the extent to which they check sources. But also I think just as a fact of the matter Wiki is not frequently incorrect or manipulated (though there are exceptions). It's no coincidence that people who want to peddle misinformation are suddenly up in arms against Wikipedia's supposed bias.
TZubiri 4mo ago
5 stars, delved
beefmumbai 4mo ago
[flagged]
sdan 4mo ago
nice! kind of similar but re-made a scrollable wikipedia a few weeks ago: https://quack.sdan.io/ https://quack.sdan.io/
- octopus143 4mo ago
  oh I have not see this one, looks good. I was inspired by wikitok project https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42936723 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42936723, I just did not like that it had random wikipedia articles, so I used HN as sort of a filter
moehm 4mo ago
Oh, nice execution. I had the same idea during the pandemic. Though my aesthetics are completely different as I focused more on the discussions on HN, as they often have some golden nuggets. Yours is of course way more polished, as I basically just slapped bootstrap on my database front end. https://www.mostdiscussed.com/ https://www.mostdiscussed.com/ Interesting how different our "popularity score" is though: https://www.mostdiscussed.com/popular https://www.mostdiscussed.com/popular You don't seem to group them by category, right? I found it quite interesting: https://www.mostdiscussed.com/popular/topics https://www.mostdiscussed.com/popular/topics Btw, your "new" tab seems to be broken, as it is showing articles from 2019.
- octopus143 4mo ago
  Hey, nice project! I guess it is much easier now with claude/codex to get polished design fast. I used to have topics etc but removed them for simplicity sake. Proabably makes sense to revert. I'll check out new filter (thanks for the pointing out)
- octopus143 4mo ago
  fixed the new fillter, thanks for heads up
sa-code 4mo ago
This is an amazing interface for Wikipedia; at least for those of us who have their brains fried by "verticals"
- octopus143 4mo ago
  Thanks! I was inspired by the wikitok project (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42936723 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42936723), but wanted to be able to dive into article a bit deeper.
shevy-java 4mo ago
Someone at WIkipedia currently abuses visitors via nag-spam-harass pop-ups. Now, ublock origin hero-blocked this, but I feel that this is an abuse. I already had a similar "discussion" with Nate abusing KDE users via his donation-daemon but he keeps on wanting more and more money (https://web.archive.org/web/20250914213714/https://jriddell.org/2025/09/14/adios-chicos-25-years-of-kde/ https://web.archive.org/web/20250914213714/https://jriddell....; the original website entry was removed some months ago, for reasons unknown to me). I feel that this is blatant abuse of people. The argument is NOT about as to whether donations should be acceptable or not, that is another discussion; the argument is that pester pop ups are an abuse of visitors. Same with pester daemons running in the background asking for money or possibly gathering user information in the future (age sniffing daemons).
buynao 4mo ago
It would be even better if it were multilingual.
hasudon7171 4mo ago
Thank you for sharing. I would be very happy if it were available in multiple languages.

140 points by octopus143 4mo ago

josters 4mo ago

Nicely done! Would be interesting to sort by upvotes and/or comment count as well.

moehm 4mo ago
I have something similar: https://www.mostdiscussed.com/popular https://www.mostdiscussed.com/popular

captn3m0 4mo ago

Other modes worth trying: "Mailing Lists", "Research Papers"

octopus143 4mo ago
yes, absolutley, I was looking into it yesterday and there is a lot of potential

mdp2021 4mo ago

> Discover Wikipedia articles popular on Hacker News Wikipedia articles _and YT videos_. Amazing result, very precious, just skimming in it for a few minutes was immensely enriching.

san4mus 4mo ago

I didn't know about this, thanks for sharing.

tacone 4mo ago

Looks great, especially on mobile, congrats!

gnatman 4mo ago

Cool! I’ve been using this bookmark for years: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=wikipedia.org https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=wikipedia.org

capitainenemo 4mo ago
Which is denser on information, faster to read, more accessible and works without javascript. I did whitelist the orangecrumb domain for JS temporarily though. Does look neat, but not the the sort of interface I'm into.
- lukan 4mo ago
  "Which is denser on information" Depends, it mostly shows those entries that were not popular or even flagged.
  - capitainenemo 4mo ago
    ... true. it's frustrating that /from supports site= but not points= and /over supports points= but not site= Sometimes HN is a bit too minimalist for no good reason IMO. Well, there's always running curl on the API. Maybe someone out there has made a nice minimalist non-JS interface that merges /from and /over or otherwise uses the API in a simple HTML wrapper.
esafak 4mo ago
If you want more than that you can use HN's BigQuery free dataset. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40644563 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40644563

h4kunamata 4mo ago

Wikepedia, the most untrustworthy source ever, cases and cases of people who gained access to the article and completely changed it with fake information: 1. Assassin's Creed video game: A guy changed Japanese history by introducing a black samurai. The whole dramas was so bad that Janapense officials got involved, and one of the reasons Ubisoft Studio which was already broke due to DEI, went even more bankrupt. 2. A lawyer changed specific laws on Wikipedia and waited, as expected, judges were caught using the "fabricated law" against real cases with real consequences. I could go on and on, but hey, you do you :)

TZubiri 4mo ago
A technology that is used up to a million times a day is bad, here's the proof, two times it has failed:
- glenstein 4mo ago
  A tale as old as time. I don't just want to know the instances of harm, I want to know how representative they are supposed to be. And I think people who have thought through the latter question aren't the types to do the former.
  - TZubiri 4mo ago
    In neither cases it was really a flaw of wikipedia, the model is clear, contributions should include content and sources, and it's the responsibility of the reader to check the reference. I get it if bullshit is uploaded and a layman is fooled, but both cases involve trained professionals who know very damn well what a source is, judges and journalists, and it was principally their failure, not of Wikipedia.
    - glenstein 4mo ago
      Exactly. If someone thinks this is a fatal flaw, they're kind of telling on themselves about the extent to which they check sources. But also I think just as a fact of the matter Wiki is not frequently incorrect or manipulated (though there are exceptions). It's no coincidence that people who want to peddle misinformation are suddenly up in arms against Wikipedia's supposed bias.

TZubiri 4mo ago

5 stars, delved

beefmumbai 4mo ago

[flagged]

sdan 4mo ago

nice! kind of similar but re-made a scrollable wikipedia a few weeks ago: https://quack.sdan.io/ https://quack.sdan.io/

octopus143 4mo ago
oh I have not see this one, looks good. I was inspired by wikitok project https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42936723 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42936723, I just did not like that it had random wikipedia articles, so I used HN as sort of a filter

moehm 4mo ago

Oh, nice execution. I had the same idea during the pandemic. Though my aesthetics are completely different as I focused more on the discussions on HN, as they often have some golden nuggets. Yours is of course way more polished, as I basically just slapped bootstrap on my database front end. https://www.mostdiscussed.com/ https://www.mostdiscussed.com/ Interesting how different our "popularity score" is though: https://www.mostdiscussed.com/popular https://www.mostdiscussed.com/popular You don't seem to group them by category, right? I found it quite interesting: https://www.mostdiscussed.com/popular/topics https://www.mostdiscussed.com/popular/topics Btw, your "new" tab seems to be broken, as it is showing articles from 2019.

octopus143 4mo ago
Hey, nice project! I guess it is much easier now with claude/codex to get polished design fast. I used to have topics etc but removed them for simplicity sake. Proabably makes sense to revert. I'll check out new filter (thanks for the pointing out)
octopus143 4mo ago
fixed the new fillter, thanks for heads up

sa-code 4mo ago

This is an amazing interface for Wikipedia; at least for those of us who have their brains fried by "verticals"

octopus143 4mo ago
Thanks! I was inspired by the wikitok project (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42936723 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42936723), but wanted to be able to dive into article a bit deeper.

shevy-java 4mo ago

Someone at WIkipedia currently abuses visitors via nag-spam-harass pop-ups. Now, ublock origin hero-blocked this, but I feel that this is an abuse. I already had a similar "discussion" with Nate abusing KDE users via his donation-daemon but he keeps on wanting more and more money (https://web.archive.org/web/20250914213714/https://jriddell.org/2025/09/14/adios-chicos-25-years-of-kde/ https://web.archive.org/web/20250914213714/https://jriddell....; the original website entry was removed some months ago, for reasons unknown to me). I feel that this is blatant abuse of people. The argument is NOT about as to whether donations should be acceptable or not, that is another discussion; the argument is that pester pop ups are an abuse of visitors. Same with pester daemons running in the background asking for money or possibly gathering user information in the future (age sniffing daemons).

buynao 4mo ago

It would be even better if it were multilingual.

hasudon7171 4mo ago

Thank you for sharing. I would be very happy if it were available in multiple languages.