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  • I didn't know about this, thanks for sharing.
    by san4mus
  • It would be even better if it were multilingual.
    by buynao
  • 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....; 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).

    by shevy-java
  • nice! kind of similar but re-made a scrollable wikipedia a few weeks ago: https://quack.sdan.io/
    by sdan
  • oh I have not see this one, looks good. I was inspired by wikitok project 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
    by octopus143
  • Thank you for sharing. I would be very happy if it were available in multiple languages.
    by hasudon7171
  • Looks great, especially on mobile, congrats!
    by tacone
  • This is an amazing interface for Wikipedia; at least for those of us who have their brains fried by "verticals"
    by sa-code
  • Thanks! I was inspired by the wikitok project (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42936723), but wanted to be able to dive into article a bit deeper.
    by octopus143
  • Other modes worth trying: "Mailing Lists", "Research Papers"
    by captn3m0
  • yes, absolutley, I was looking into it yesterday and there is a lot of potential
    by octopus143
  • Nicely done! Would be interesting to sort by upvotes and/or comment count as well.
    by josters
  • I have something similar:

    https://www.mostdiscussed.com/popular

    by moehm
  • > 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.

    by mdp2021
  • Cool! I’ve been using this bookmark for years:

    https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=wikipedia.org

    by gnatman
  • If you want more than that you can use HN's BigQuery free dataset. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40644563
    by esafak
  • 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.

    by capitainenemo
  • 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/

    Interesting how different our "popularity score" is though: 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

    Btw, your "new" tab seems to be broken, as it is showing articles from 2019.

    by moehm
  • fixed the new fillter, thanks for heads up
    by octopus143
  • 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)

    by octopus143