hackernews client

We have a continuously updated, publicly accessible hackernews database in BigQuery, in case more of you folks are interested in building similar projects:

https://console.cloud.google.com/marketplace/product/y-combi...

Clickhouse equivalent, updated in real-time: https://play.clickhouse.com/play?user=play#U0VMRUNUIG1heCh0a...

Relevant post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40644563

What's missing are entity-level extracted data, and embeddings.

vincnetas

19 hours ago

imagine having this open data for major social networks.

giladd

17 hours ago

I'm pretty sure the AT protocol is meant to solve this. Not so sure that any of the big players in the social media industry are enthusiastic to use it, though.

Meanwhile the Fediverse is and has been running for years, long before AT jumped in and took the spotlight. You're not wrong, and I'd rather have AT than not have it. But it reminds me of N'Sync eating the Backstreet Boys' lunch back in the day.

It also reminds me of the Onion article "Sumerians Look On in Confusion as God Creates World".

https://theonion.com/sumerians-look-on-in-confusion-as-god-c...

giladd

14 hours ago

I get you, though it's mostly a problem if the userbase is split (I suppose it is, I'm unfamiliar). If so, it's a long-term problem only if one does not eat the other. Having a mainstream protocol/stack is a good thing.

glenstein

12 hours ago

My opinionated take is there was a kind of cultural moment where the world was ready for Something Else post-twitter, and instead of just the Fediverse, or just something else, the world encountered a fractured, motley combination of Fediverse/Bluesky + AT proto/Threads and there was never a unified zeitgest moment that belonged to any single answer, though BlueSky was closest to having a kind of cultural watershed reaction moment.

giladd

8 hours ago

I think that's true in the micro sense that the fringe techies and terminally online big tech-averse crowd had a moment where they could collectively choose a better way to communicate.

Sadly, convenience always wins, and most people need a better reason to "switch platforms" (which is, ironically, what moving your socials to atproto/fedi means). Together with the dismal state of general education on digital independence, such revolutions just won't happen for the overwhelming majority of internet users. The lack of GPG usage is a common example, but people don't even own their email domains :)

Cordiali

8 hours ago

Well as the song goes, I want it AT way.

freakynit

19 hours ago

We used to have.. at least it was not so heavily restricted.. and then AI happened, and everyone closed those down.

Such a sad state of affairs.. holding end user's data hostage.

Hackbraten

20 hours ago

Cool project!

I’d appreciate if the site didn’t hijack my scroll wheel though. It currently doesn’t let me scroll through the page at my own speed, which is super annoying, plus it hides any scroll bar (which would have served as my escape hatch for scrolling).

loopmonster

19 hours ago

Every click of my mouse wheel takes me epilepsy-fast through about 10 articles.

aizk

16 hours ago

Ah, I only tested on a macbook and mobile. Will check that out.

joquarky

12 hours ago

Remember when the web was just documents?

Most browsers have a "stop loading" button.

Why don't we have a "stop JavaScript" button?

thasso

a day ago

I would just love it if the front page were full of "Show HN: HackerFoo" posts for two weeks now.

xeyownt

18 hours ago

Then we must have a "Show HN: HackerHack", all the Hackerfoo sites mentionned on Hacker News.

darccio

16 hours ago

I was about to start building it but that could escalate to HackerHackerHack where all the HackerHacks created, posted, and mentioned would be listed. We don't want a Cambrian explosion of HackerFoo sites.

defrost

a day ago

Show HN: Peak Passive Aggressive comments; flagged, dead, and eerily popular !

bodash

15 hours ago

Until dang decides to add them as extra filters on the og site

emaro

21 hours ago

I mean the hype cycles usually don't last that long anymore these days? It will get old by Friday.

hidelooktropic

15 hours ago

I did this before it was cool Every Wikipedia Page from HN's Top Front Page https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49500430

moehm

19 hours ago

Hey, nice, I built roughly the same during the covid era pre AI.

https://www.mostdiscussed.com/

geerlingguy

16 hours ago

Quick, rename it to "HackerDiscussed"!

bawis

19 hours ago

These "Hackerfoo" posts are just getting better and better, thanks.

sixtyj

a day ago

Pls buy some nice domain for project and then we can talk :). I am a bit tired to bookmark a project that disappears in few weeks when traffic via Netlify grows and isn’t free anymore…

aizk

16 hours ago

Bought it before launching :) I learned my lesson from wikitok lol https://wikihack.org/

ShinyLeftPad

21 hours ago

There's so many dead domains though.

andai

17 hours ago

A little while ago I was looking for a domain for a project. I spent like 12 hour straight trying out different names. Not a single one was actually being used! Almost all of them were domains for sale (average price like 10K). A bunch of them were registered but server didn't respond. One was a blank page. And one was a company intranet.

I guess those last two are actually being used for something. But it kind of bothered me you know. Like if someone bought all the land in your city and then just left it empty. (Actually that sounds kind of nice... Bad example :)

sixtyj

12 hours ago

Domain squatters are terrible, I know from experience too.

You can register any free domain, it is better than having the project at Netlify, Vercel, ChatGPT, lovable, or any other domain - those domains are vendor-locks.

lifeisloving

21 hours ago

I mean, Im probably never going to bookmark a netlify url. A domain cost $3.00.

If someone doesnt care enough to invest $3.00 in their project I'm not going to use it.

On more than one occasion a friend has sent me a netlify link asking for my opinion on a business or product and Ive replied that its a throwaway project.

darkwater

20 hours ago

Where? I had a xyz for a few bucks in PorkBun and it just renewed for 15$ now. Also, a domain is an ongoing expense.

lifeisloving

16 hours ago

Yes first year is cheap then ~10.00 a year. Not a bad deal, as someone mentioned below, just use subdomains on one domain for all your toy projects.

inbx0

19 hours ago

Just let it expire and then buy the same one as "new" on sale again! /s

ShinyLeftPad

18 hours ago

Who bookmarks things these days?

lifeisloving

16 hours ago

Who doesnt? I use raindrop.io for bookmarks, its amazing.

ShinyLeftPad

3 hours ago

Most people I know. Myself included.

When I realized like half of my bookmarks don't resolve I realized web is ephemeral. just look it up, if it doesn't come up then it's gone.

komali2

20 hours ago

Especially because you could just buy your name as a domain, then put all your projects as subdomains off it. I have like, a billion projects off my co-op's subdomain, which costs us, idk, a hundred bucks a year?

julenx

a day ago

Great job! As a little suggestion, it'd be great if this could also process non-English Wikipedia articles, because some niche (usually culture-specific) topics do not exist in English Wikipedia, and I believe there is quite a bit of value in exposing these.

nomilk

a day ago

I like that it links to the actual HN comments (I don't think Karpathy's yt equivalent did that), and tbh I enjoy reading the context in which articles/videos are mentioned as much (or more) than the articles/videos themselves.

defrost

a day ago

Click through on HackerTube took you from thumbnail wall to a specific video summary with AI context summary and links to user comments.

( I read my own past comments several times. Brrrr )

nomilk

a day ago

Thank you I see them now. Since I enjoy reading the HN comments more than (and often prior to) the video itself, I'd love the comments to be on hover or sidebar (like Wikihack) on the main page so I can use them to decide whether to invest time on the video.

LoganDark

20 hours ago

One video may have been linked to in multiple comments, which is why each comment that links to the video is enumerated under the video.

alcomatt

21 hours ago

Let's raise the bar. Create HackerDump - it's like HackerNews but only shows the articles you read in the toilet...

morkalork

17 hours ago

Dr Bronner's Hacker: All the long wall-of-text posts

Uncle John's Hacker Quarterly: Its just the amusing anecdotes collected from the comments

Hacker's Digest: Just a collection of meta-posts that are collections of other HN content

enoch2090

20 hours ago

Coming soon: HackerHacker, HackerX, HackerGitHub, HackerAliExpress and HackerP*nHub!

davidzweig

20 hours ago

well I made this for Reddit and HN:

https://www.trustmebro.reviews/

freakynit

19 hours ago

This is a goldmine. Holy!!!

davidzweig

19 hours ago

The travel opinions on a map are pretty neat: https://www.trustmebro.reviews/c/travel?view=map

I made new submission here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50333280

freakynit

18 hours ago

Woah.. I absolutely love the design.. and its so so fast! I hope more people know about this site. Truly incredible work.

davidzweig

17 hours ago

Well thank Claude mostly. :)

It's actually pretty hard to post links about it: AI project collects product opinions with AI, so, Reddit posts mostly got flagged.

felixyz

19 hours ago

Incredibly useful!

enoch2090

20 hours ago

But seriously, please don't burn any more tokens to make any of these real

aizk

16 hours ago

PS: If you liked this -- check out my https://www.wikitok.io/

mettamage

a day ago

Can someone just gather up all the media types that HN recommends and put them in one collection?

I get it: HN people give generally good recommendations to the HN crowd.

Next up: Hacker Games, Hacker Niche Social Media sites, Hacker Enterpreneurship blogs, Hacker Art, Hacker Instagram Channels To Follow.

Bundle it and call it: Hacker Index or something ;-)

bawis

19 hours ago

Hacker Games: https://hnarcade.com/

Hacker Blogs: https://popularity.refactoringenglish.com/

HN Hall of Fame: https://www.orangecrumbs.com/hall/

HN Top Charts: https://hn-summary.github.io/

If it has been it will be, it if has been done it will be done.

snarfy

19 hours ago

All the "Hackernews but for X" posts want me to make one for games.

Except it would just be as link to Factorio

adsharma

15 hours ago

https://github.com/LadybugDB/bugscope

You can use this to navigate wikidata graph (90m node, 750m edges)

jlpMurugesh

19 hours ago

Doesn't it seem like there's less diff b/w 'HackerNews' and 'WikiHack'. It provides less value compared to HackerTube, HackerBoom imo.

lofties

20 hours ago

Show HN: Hacker News - HackerTube, but for articles posted on HN.

1e1a

a day ago

Similar app from 4 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48530382

thefourthchime

a day ago

On the desktop this seems to be only rendered for mobile.

aizk

16 hours ago

I modeled the UI explicitly after tiktok and youtube shorts on desktop.

For wikitok, I made it take up the entire screen, but for this project I felt that having the comments was a core part of the experience so it's better to have them both side by side to get context, so the mobile-like layout wins.

Rapzid

18 hours ago

Show HN: HackerJacks – HackerTube, but for mentions of well-known Jacks

Pumpkin Jack, Jack Dorsey, Cracker Jack, jackoffs, and more!

pythonRon

19 hours ago

How about a light themed version for those of us with vision problems?

Rapzid

18 hours ago

Amazing project!

I can finally breath again thanks to HackerWiki!

koruse

21 hours ago

Pls somebody make hackertwitter save us from Elon

hirako2000

17 hours ago

ArXivHack coming soon.

JKCalhoun

15 hours ago

Hackipedia?

No?

rvz

a day ago

We are now past the "intellectual curiosity" era of Show HN and it has now entered into its fast food slop age.

jacquesm

a day ago

I also doubt that youtube thing would have made it as high as it did if not for Karpathy.

guitarlimeo

a day ago

Yeah influence has always had a huge effect but nowadays it feels like it starts to be the only thing that has an effect, as all these curiosity projects are low effort.

ares623

21 hours ago

Mmmm Karpathy slop

bilsbie

16 hours ago

You should make a version with grokipedia instead.

nomilk

a day ago

Will Betteridge’s Law of Headlines Fail to Take Number One Spot?

https://wikihack.netlify.app/feed/top

testfrequency

19 hours ago

Show HN: “I took hacker news content and turned it into a message board”

joshuaS98

21 hours ago

Can we next do FruitHack? HackerTube, but for fruits mentioned on HN

yagyavendratiwa

19 hours ago

Nice project

Profazia

21 hours ago

looks like slop though

verve_rat

19 hours ago

Sweet. Now I just need someone to build one for phone apps, one for desktop software, and one for Web apps and I think I'll be all sorted.

brador

20 hours ago

Every vibe coded software I’m following has stopped updates after about a week. Is this a change of interest in the developer or did they get lost in the code slop and the AI hit context limits to quality essentially locking out further changes?

xpct

19 hours ago

People are creating projects by paying money and not time, things that they wouldn't actually invest time into.

I suspect that this fad will die out when LLM capabilities are no longer as exciting.

aizk

16 hours ago

It depends on how much usage it gets and the demand for changes. I updated wikitok for well over a month after it went viral because people were requesting changes. Then it found a sort of homeostasis point and now I rarely update it, because there just aren't as many requests.

I'm just here to make a fun little website to pass the time it's not that deep.