Show HN: Scroll Wikipedia like TikTok

241 pointsposted 15 hours ago
by sdan

61 Comments

-i

11 minutes ago

747.run is a realtime infinite Ai wikipedia, every word is a link to a unique article based on the word in the URL, Ai frequently checks all URL's and writes a new article based on the word you click.

You can also write articles and all your words become links, use the website address bar to type any word after 747.run/ or type 747.run/ behind any domain to generate unique articles based on domain.

Have a group chat with unlimited people and Ai, share any link to chat with anyone, press space to chat with the Ai, have an Ai chatbot on your website or chat with users privately by embedding it on your website with iFrame (set BG color or leave it transparent)

The Ai sometimes drifts & hallucinates.

jaredsohn

8 hours ago

Next step is allow viewing TikTok like wikipedia. Take a bunch of popular tiktok posts, use an LLM to describe what's happening via text/screenshots (with references to memes, etc), and link them to other relevant tiktoks.

Some meme sites might be somewhat similar to this.

lysp

4 hours ago

> Next step is allow viewing TikTok like wikipedia

I tried that and this is what I got:

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Nullam tincidunt at dui vel suscipit. Donec finibus viverra tempus. Ut ut tellus ac mi ultricies fermentum a quis nulla. Vivamus urna mi, laoreet ac purus sed, ultricies tincidunt nisi. Quisque vulputate massa nec hendrerit consequat. Suspendisse potenti. Phasellus dapibus suscipit vulputate. Suspendisse id semper turpis, sit amet rhoncus nisl. Aenean auctor purus orci, eget ullamcorper lorem volutpat sit amet.

NoteyComplexity

5 hours ago

Instead of LLM and just like Wikipedia, there should be users to submit the descriptions of the videos, and see people fighting for getting the most “correct” description.

It will be hilarious to see what people will come up with when they see brain rot content.

baby

3 hours ago

There's already memepedia

baby

3 hours ago

Wow this is so freaking awesome! I guess the pages I ended up scrolling on weren't too interesting though, how do you figure out what stories to create/show?

sdan

28 minutes ago

Wikipedia articles are randomly sampled, theres no algorithm per-se yet but hoping to collaborate with others to see that through

cons0le

12 hours ago

This is amazing! I think this could actually catch on!

Plz give an easy way to follow some tags so it's not showing me football stuff. If it was just topics I was interested in, I could scroll this for hours.

sdan

12 hours ago

Huge- good to hear will see if I can add a way to type in what you want or to go dig further into just certain hashtags.

Rad007

2 hours ago

It's pretty cool.

This is even scalable if you consider caching some of these requests and allow users to choose if they want a just-in-time version. Also the comments really are snappy and quick to load.

xnx

15 hours ago

SirFatty

15 hours ago

"This was inspired by Wikitok, a VSCode Extension I made around brainrot, and another fully generative UI site I made."

xnx

14 hours ago

I saw that but got the submitter and commenter names mixed up, so I didn't realize it was the same person.

asciii

6 hours ago

This is so awesome - i wish I could modify that annoying voice :)

sdan

8 hours ago

Note there's a rate limit on generated content for the time being, why you're unable to see any new content on the rest of the feeds. LLMs are expensive!

baby

3 hours ago

Ad ads like instagram reels have!

personjerry

15 hours ago

The animations + audio are great. I feel like these meaningfully differentiate from some other similar projects. There's a lot of potential here.

tylervigen

8 hours ago

Hilarious. The one AI voice is a little too grating for me, but with a little variation I might actually scroll it for a while.

Imustaskforhelp

8 hours ago

Yea I didn't like the voice as well, it felt very coarse to me and not very enjoyable

To be really honest, I still occasionally browse shorts sometimes because of some youtubers/niche content (there is this really good etymology shorts guy and a fun fact guy I watch usually)

So like the other day I was asking fun fact about niche legal laws just out of curiosity if anyone of them might be interesting/genuinely helpful to me lol to chatgpt about different countries

There were lot of niche things but one which I found interesting was that its possible in finland and other norweigian countries to browse even private land / private forests etc. and finland even has a digital right to internet

> Finland was the first country in the world to make access to high-speed internet a legal right, establishing this policy in July 2010. The law requires all service providers to offer a minimum internet speed of one megabit per second to every household, with a goal of providing access to 100 megabits per second by 2015. PBS edri.org (from Duckduckgo AI)

sdan

8 hours ago

A few months ago I made a (theoretically) infinitely learning geo-guessing model that updated the policy with each user guess: https://geospot.sdan.io/

Hoping to implement a simple RL loop here and optimize whats generated by the LLM to create the perfect slop machine :)

mappum

7 hours ago

Missed an opportunity to name it WikWok or Tikipedia.

sdan

7 hours ago

great suggestion ! i might change it to wikwok, so good

omegabravo

4 hours ago

I was confused why someone would possibly configure the voice to be quiet and raspy.

Seems like there's an issue with Firefox that was causing it. Chrome voice sounds "normal" - like TikTok.

aizk

13 hours ago

Hi there, creator of Wikitok here! Very happy to hear that my random little project inspired you :) The attention to detail in the UI is good - I'm so over every default AI generated UI being rounded corners, centered divs, blue and purple gradients, etc. Nice work.

sdan

12 hours ago

Thanks! Half of the work here was getting gemini to generate reasonable canvas animations within the window. I'm still experimenting which "style" I should keep/add

vedmakk

13 hours ago

This is really cool. I'm interested in the GenUI part. Is the web app itself static and the stories are generated on-demand?

Do you give gemini some UI components/templates to build with or is it just prompting to get consistent results across multiple stories?

pests

12 hours ago

Google AI Studio has a Gallery[0] with some similar apps. It's an editor so you can view the code, they are usually react apps with gemini integration via genai package. Like this one here[1] is similar. It generates interesting stories to share about a route you are driving / walking / biking along. This is one of the pre-made examples I believe, I didn't make it or anything. Just to show some how some of this might work.

[0] https://aistudio.google.com/apps?source=showcase&showcaseTag...

[1] https://aistudio.google.com/apps/bundled/echo_paths?showPrev...

sdan

11 hours ago

Yes I have base css/js that I inject on top of whatever codegen gemini 3 comes back with -- It runs via ai-sdk so the specific function is streamObject which is prompted to generate inner HTML elements

Edmond

14 hours ago

Work related versions of this, expense report:

https://youtu.be/h0Bg-lqNlkU

In general Just-In-Time app generation is a bad idea. The right approach is to create human-in-loop tools that a bot would recognize and invoke as needed, of course the human-in-loop tool would itself be AI generated.

Example of human-in-loop tool in use:

https://youtu.be/srG5Ze7mS7s

grugagag

8 hours ago

Good. However, on a smaller phone such as Iphone SE the viewport gets cropped all around and I don’t see around 20% of the content.

anotherpaul

5 hours ago

Oh I hate it it's so brain rotty. Well done. Well done indeed.

maxbond

8 hours ago

Having a generated voice tell me about some historical massacre in a chipper tone with a generated infographic and set to TikTok music was. Especially dystopian.

As an experience I found it nauseating and am never doing it again, but as an art piece I give it high marks. Good job.

cornonthecobra

12 hours ago

The caption highlight timing is very inaccurate. It looks like it just steps through each word on a fixed timer, rather than using timing information from the TTS engine?

sdan

12 hours ago

Yes just fixed timer, and using browser TTS nothing fancy here on purpose - when I did some research on tiktok videos generally simpler/worse quality seemed to be better XD

alexpadula

6 hours ago

It’s a cool idea but the content needs to be more useful imo.

sdan

6 hours ago

how could i make it more useful? different formats? would you want to keep you engaged for longer? entertained for longer?

garyfirestorm

6 hours ago

Relevant content - what is relevant to me may not be relevant to you.

bstsb

12 hours ago

wow, my attention span is terrible - the first time i tried watching a generated video, i instinctively held the right side of the screen to speed it up to 2x…

is there scope for allowing users to search for / ask about specific topics? although then you do have to think about security issues with prompt injection

furyofantares

14 hours ago

Reading it with sound off is really hard because of the way the words come up one at a time, rather than the whole sentence at once.

oceansky

9 hours ago

Very cool! But text moves way too fast

nseth

13 hours ago

Another sick Surya project, well done dude!

[Neall]

sdan

11 hours ago

thanks

timwalz

9 hours ago

FIKKIPEDIAAAAAA FTW

emsign

14 hours ago

Nice tech demo but in practice utterly annoying and without purpose. I mean don't you think enshitifying Wiki knowledge kind of beats the purpose of acquiring knowledge?

odie5533

13 hours ago

It's a proof of concept to pave the way. I could see benefit in having series which deep dive into material. This felt too shallow to me.

emsign

2 hours ago

Deep dives with TikTok mechanics? That's not going to work, that TikTok UI was optimized for dopamine release. You want to teach junkies new things? All they learn is how to get their kicks, so outside that settings nothing will stick. When they have to apply the infotainment snippets in a real world setting the won't be these high reward stimuli. I mean if you want to hook them on feeling great while believing they've learned something...