Yeah I plan on putting the code for that on GitHub soon too.
Added now!
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rebane2001 commented on Show HN: Wikipedia as a doomscrollable social media feed xikipedia.org... · Posted by u/rebane2001
I assumed that obviously this is very clever performance art to show how even the healthiest food can be turned into brainrotting sludge.
But then I look at the comments, and it really looks like some people want this.
Now I'm depressed.
Yeah, that was the intention.
rebane2001 commented on Show HN: Wikipedia as a doomscrollable social media feed xikipedia.org... · Posted by u/rebane2001
(Could have the client download the blob from where the repo is hosted on GitHub, which takes under a second for me to download: https://github.com/rebane2001/xikipedia/raw/refs/heads/mane/...)
I'd need to implement a js brotli decompressor, or make you download a file that's 5x bigger, to use that.
rebane2001 commented on Show HN: Wikipedia as a doomscrollable social media feed xikipedia.org... · Posted by u/rebane2001
I want to try reimplementing it for Wikipedia in another language, would you mind sharing how you went from the 400MB Wikipedia export to the .1x (40MB) file that is downloaded here?
Yeah I plan on putting the code for that on GitHub soon too.
rebane2001 commented on Show HN: Wikipedia as a doomscrollable social media feed xikipedia.org... · Posted by u/rebane2001
I do the same as you, except in vim. But increasingly I'm getting the nagging feeling that I'm wasting my time.
I made this project from start to finish in less than a day, and I feel it was well worth my time and effort.
rebane2001 commented on Show HN: Wikipedia as a doomscrollable social media feed xikipedia.org... · Posted by u/rebane2001
Presumably the 40mb of data is not from Wikipedia, but the Javascript tracking code bundle needed to turn it into a doomscrollable social media feed. ;) By those standards, I think it’s pretty lightweight! For comparison, the Instagram iOS app is 468.9mb, more than ten times the size…
The 40MB of data is Wikipedia data, the site itself is 21kB.
rebane2001 commented on Show HN: Wikipedia as a doomscrollable social media feed xikipedia.org... · Posted by u/rebane2001
Don't get me wrong. 5mb is a lot for this, yes. This app, coded with love and interest could easily be made under 1mb.
This app IS made in under 1mb. The entire app, including all the assets minus all the actual Wikipedia data, is 21kB (no minification or compression). And all of it is in a single html file with human-readable code.
rebane2001 commented on Show HN: Wikipedia as a doomscrollable social media feed xikipedia.org... · Posted by u/rebane2001
probably vibe coded
I wrote this project by hand in Sublime Text, which is more of a text editor than an IDE. I don't use ai, even for autocomplete.
All of the code is unminified/unobfuscated in the index.html file, you can right click the page and view-source it.
rebane2001 commented on Show HN: Wikipedia as a doomscrollable social media feed xikipedia.org... · Posted by u/rebane2001
I ran across a grammar mistake in one of the entries and clicked into the actual wikipedia entry to fix it. That was satisfying. Imagine being able to do that on social media.
that's really cool!!
Please consider taking an hour and push this to a Github with quick readme. Scientists and developers would get it. We have been building a torrent-based alternative to Youtube for a few years. Not many knowledge out there around operational frontpage algorithm.
Edit: https://github.com/rebane2001/xikipedia