Show HN: Hallucinopedia

(halupedia.com)

37 points | by bstrama an hour ago ago

29 comments

  • diputsmonro 5 minutes ago

    It's pretty fun to poke at! Although it's certainly difficult to be exact, it would be neat if generated pages used the context of the pages they were linked from (ideally, all pages that link to it) to guide the direction of the page. From the ones I generated it seemed they were mostly independent.

    • bstrama 2 minutes ago

      Yeah, thought about that, maybe will implement it. Will keep in mind! For now SSR to feed LLMs' the priority

  • lxgr 22 minutes ago

    Ironically, this seems much faster (for pages already, erm, "researched") than the real one! How?

    • bstrama 10 minutes ago

      It generates articles only once. So once it's generated, it never perish. Logic looks like: If article exist -> show it If not -> generate and save

  • ChrisArchitect 2 minutes ago

    Another day another beige serif-font vibecoded pedia site

  • JohnMakin 36 minutes ago

    Funny, but you could argue this is actively harmful to the web.

    • isoprophlex 27 minutes ago

      The sooner the current web dies, the better. Something better either rises from its ashes, or we lose... something that was already lost.

    • dayofthedaleks 23 minutes ago

      You could also argue that the web has failed and poisoning it into irrelevance is a vital service, motivating humans to collect knowledge into immutable sources. We‘ll call them ‘libraries.’

    • lxgr 21 minutes ago

      On the other hand, one could argue that anything that can be destroyed by relatively clearly labeled satire, deserves to be.

    • parliament32 6 minutes ago

      To the web? It's fantastic for the web, these are the kinds of fun projects that make the web a worthwhile place to be. To slop generators? Yes, absolutely harmful, and that's for the best.

    • slig 12 minutes ago

      Grokipedia is already doing that.

    • stronglikedan 26 minutes ago

      > you could argue

      Could you? I don't see it happening, but I could be wrong.

    • Jtarii 19 minutes ago

      Pissing on a pile of shit

  • meghneelgore 10 minutes ago

    Great idea! I created an adjacent website that gives, shall we say, "alternative facts" about your questions. (don't know if the rules allow me to link the site so I won't).

  • petercooper an hour ago

    Give it a week and see what Google AI Overview has to say about the Great Pigeon Census of 1887!

  • solarkraft 24 minutes ago

    Finally a more trustworthy version of Grokipedia!

    • bstrama 23 minutes ago

      It's hilarious, you made my day hahah

    • LeoPanthera 16 minutes ago

      I honestly forgot that Grokipedia existed. Did anyone ever use it?

      • bstrama 9 minutes ago

        Tried once, but was useless. Very funny that it had so many text, while Elon is apparently "huge" fan of short and precise communication...

  • nickvec 26 minutes ago

    Seeing “Something broke, which is ironic for a made-up encyclopedia: Load failed” when trying to access some of the suggested starting points

    • bstrama 24 minutes ago

      Works on my PC.

      Could you gimme the url that's failing?

  • bstrama 44 minutes ago

    Can't wait to see the next generation of LLMs after feeding it all of that hahaha

    • everyos_ 31 minutes ago

      The page requires JS to load its content - user agents without JS support just get a blank page.

      I'm not sure if the bots that scrape data to train LLMs are capable of loading that type of page, or if they only work on pages that have the content inside the HTML itself?

      • replygirl 27 minutes ago

        any serious scraping service these days will fail over to a headless browser when it fetches an asset referencing a js bundle that isn't verifiably a vendor script

      • m3047 11 minutes ago

        It's entirely possible they simply ingest the JS as-is.

      • bstrama 24 minutes ago

        I'm aware and will implement SSR soon ;)

  • arduanika 7 minutes ago

    Love it! It feels very Borges!

    Feature request: also be able to click on the Talk page to see the controversies. I don't always want to trust the article itself as the final word.

    Edit: Oh look, there's an article about the YC! https://halupedia.com/y-combinator

  • FergusArgyll 7 minutes ago

    Who says llms can't be funny?!

  • dmje 25 minutes ago

    I LOVE IT. Superb.