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Listen to Wikipedia
- artursapek 11y agoThe "Listen to Bitcoin" link is broken, but this similar project is just as cool: http://www.bitlisten.com http://www.bitlisten.com. Not sure if that's what the broken link used to point to.
- mgkimsal 11y agoSeems to slow/down animation after a couple hours - very laggy. Closed the tab and audio was still playing for about 40 seconds afterwards - was thinking I'd have to reboot the machine(!) Is there some way to be cleaning up old circles after X new ones (or X minutes?)
- TazeTSchnitzel 11y ago> Is there some way to be cleaning up old circles after X new ones (or X minutes?) It already does this, inspect the DOM. The ones that fade away are removed as children of the <svg>.
- mgkimsal 11y agomaybe it needs to clean up more aggressively then? or have that be a configurable setting? I was seeing what looked like hundreds of previous circles on my screen.
- hndude 11y agoLooking at the title, I assumed this was going to be about audio versions of Wikipedia articles. Obviously, this is much cooler!
- pantalaimon 11y agoI assumed it would be about the reliability of the facts in Wikipedia compared to other (online) media
- grokys 11y agoIndeed, I was hoping it was going to be more stuff like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdDD9ViRZz4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdDD9ViRZz4
- 49531 11y agoha, that was my initial thought.
- andrey-p 11y agoI thought it was going to be about not ignoring messages about Wikipedia's funding drives.
- baseballmerpeak 11y agoAt this point, I would pay $3 to never see that message again.
- JupiterMoon 11y agoI didn't even know that they still did it, it's been so long since I've seen one. (Adblocker)
- yellowapple 11y agoSince when do adblockers block those? Every holiday season, no matter what adblocker I'm using, the nagging to donate is incessant.
- JupiterMoon 11y agoAh it could be no script? I generally don't let javascript run unless I need to.
- cbd1984 11y agoIt has AUTOPLAY SOUND (Tacking on because this is currently the highest comment.)
- puzz 11y agoVery nice, I think I'll use this as my background music when programming. Reminds me of a similar (real life!) thing: The Sea Organon in Zadar, Croatia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtDYTeB5J-8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtDYTeB5J-8 Skip to 5:00 to listen.
- 49531 11y agoI'll admit, I scoffed at the idea. I ended up giving it a try though, and find I quite like it.
- deleted 11y ago[deleted]
- harmus 11y agoLove it
- pmr_ 11y agoStarting to play sound without user confirmation is a default tab-close. I wont even take the time to look at it. Bonus point for not being flash that hijacks the browser shortcut.
- trymas 11y ago+1. When I come to HN, I usually read all topics on the front page, then open interesting ones in tabs. After opening 10 tabs, I hear music, then I find the culprit, close the tab, do not look back. Never play music without user permission.
- rosstex 11y agoBye. Use Chrome. Or use less tabs. Or focus on one at a time.
- pmr_ 11y agoWhy should I adapt my usage patterns to accommodate the shitty behavior of a few websites? Also, are you sure you are in position to tell other people how to use the web? I certainly don't think I am.
- prawn 11y agoYou clicked a link that said Listen to Wikipedia! I know I expected audio when I clicked it.
- pd1 11y agoListen could imply that we need to listen to Wikipedia's message. I was expected an essay honestly.
- adaml_623 11y agoIf you are randomly clicking on links on a website like this then you have no justification to describe a website as shitty for doing the one thing it is designed to do. There's a website called rainymood.com and it does one thing and asking for user confirmation first would be quite silly.
- rhaps0dy 11y agoThis is brilliant and very soothing.
- cbd1984 11y agoFlagged for autoplay sound.
- coppolaemilio 11y agobut that is the point of the website!
- cbd1984 11y agoI wasn't warned beforehand.
- sheziftron 11y ago"Bells indicate additions and string plucks indicate subtractions", This is relaxing because the of the harmony determined especially by the bells. In addition, the WikiPedia is so powerful because the green dominates the purple..
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- typis7 11y agoWhere is the information being scraped from? I looked at the source but I'm hardly a JS/Web expert. Seems to be from here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:RecentChanges https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:RecentChanges https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/RCStream https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/RCStream but only found a list of weird addresses: https://github.com/hatnote/listen-to-wikipedia/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=ws%3A%2F%2Fwikimon.hatnote.com&type=Code https://github.com/hatnote/listen-to-wikipedia/search?utf8=%...
- jivid 11y agoThose addresses are websocket servers that seem to publish wikipedia changes. The app is just subscribing to the changes by opening a websocket connection to the appropriate server. Looking at their other repos and the addresses you linked to, looks like the project for publishing the changes is at https://github.com/hatnote/wikimon https://github.com/hatnote/wikimon, which is in turn getting changes from an IRC feed at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Data#IRC_Feeds https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Data#IRC_Feeds
- zhte415 11y agoHow does the 'new user announcement' chord work? And pitching in general? The new user announcement seems to be on a 7th (always attractive for a short amount of time - mainly minor but not always - I've listened for a short amount of time). The deletes seem to be biased towards a minor chord. I might have mixed that all up, but the chord seems to show some dependency. Or it is just late a night.
- kxter 11y agoOk. This is cool... :)
- zhte415 11y agoThose apes sitting at the base of the Obelisk in 2001 A Spacy Odyssey may have been on the something.
- danlandy 11y agoPosted it to Product Hunt http://www.producthunt.com/upcoming http://www.producthunt.com/upcoming hopefully it gets on the main feed!
- cbd1984 11y agoFlagged as spam.
- chrisper 11y agoIs it just me or does it not work (anymore)? EDIT: Turns out you need to open TCP port 9000
- gamekathu 11y agoamazing concept, and the fact that data is generating this music resulting in a mesmerizing effect gives me chills; maybe one day indeed we would listen to bots composing an entire piece on its own!
- kxter 11y agoListen to the English version and then the Chinese Version - you will see the Great Firewall of China in action. :/
- cbd1984 11y agoWARNING: AUTOPLAY SOUND
- cbd1984 11y agoThe music sounds terrible.
- ytdht 11y agoI would have imagined it to have a much faster beat... maybe this is a bad time.
- Nadya 11y agoWas roughly the same speed 6-7 hours ago.