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driggs•about 2 hours ago

This is fantastic. I couldn't find any obvious way to search for a new page, but you can simply bang out any arbitrary URL slug and the new article will be hallucinated fresh, eg:

https://halupedia.com/shortest-cave-in-the-world

https://halupedia.com/echolocation-ability-in-spiders

bstrama•about 2 hours ago

Exactly, but I consider adding fake search that could find you ANY article, including not existent ones

lxgr•about 1 hour ago

All articles exist, some just haven't been discovered yet ;)

mmooss•about 2 hours ago

Yes, that would be the perfect touch. This is brilliant satire. We need more satire!

diputsmonro•about 2 hours 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•about 2 hours ago

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

petercooper•about 3 hours ago

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

JohnMakin•about 3 hours ago

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

anonymousiam•about 2 hours ago

It's probably only harmful to the AI scrapers that train from the web. Most people will understand the purpose of this -- to poison LLM training in a humorous way, which is really easy to do. It exemplifies a major weakness in modern day AI.

r3trohack3r•about 2 hours ago

Interesting, but you could argue comments like this are actively harmful to the web.

AlecSchueler•about 2 hours ago

But the argument wouldn't be nearly as strong.

dayofthedaleks•about 3 hours 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.’

isoprophlex•about 3 hours ago

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

b00ty4breakfast•about 2 hours ago

or something way worse shows up.

JohnMakin•about 2 hours ago

Yea, I'm not sure how the "this is really bad so let's make it worse" argument really makes any sense

lxgr•about 2 hours ago

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

wildzzz•28 minutes ago

Any training data scraper that blindly takes stuff from websites deserves to have their model poisoned by this nonsense.

slig•about 2 hours ago

Grokipedia is already doing that.

stronglikedan•about 3 hours ago

> you could argue

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

parliament32•about 2 hours 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.

Jtarii•about 2 hours ago

Pissing on a pile of shit

lxgr•about 3 hours ago

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

bstrama•about 2 hours 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

lxgr•about 2 hours ago

I get that, but how does it serve the generated and cached ones seemingly faster than Wikipedia? (My guess is that single-page applications, which this one seems to be, just need less round trips between navigations or something?)

bstrama•about 2 hours ago

Yep, just a react. Also we use gemini 2.5 flash lite, so it's fast, cheap and dumb.

driggs•about 2 hours ago

This site is going to be expensive when a web crawler hits it. A honey pot that burns tokens.

solarkraft•about 3 hours ago

Finally a more trustworthy version of Grokipedia!

bstrama•about 3 hours ago

It's hilarious, you made my day hahah

LeoPanthera•about 2 hours ago

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

bstrama•about 2 hours 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...

mmooss•about 2 hours ago

Somebody showed me it appearing near the top of some of their DuckDuckGo queries.

bstrama•about 3 hours ago

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

everyos_•about 3 hours 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•about 3 hours 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

bstrama•about 3 hours ago

I'm aware and will implement SSR soon ;)

m3047•about 2 hours ago

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

sofayam•about 1 hour ago

Currently breaks if you try to create a page with a Japanese slug. Multiple languages would make this an even more valuable resource than it already is.

nickvec•about 3 hours 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•about 3 hours ago

Works on my PC.

Could you gimme the url that's failing?

bstrama•about 2 hours ago

UPDATE: Just now, comment section added. Have a nice time arguing!

dlcarrier•about 1 hour ago

You are a wonderful person.

You not only made this excellent source of entertainment, you are also helped everyone find their unmatched socks, ensuring that "no individual would ever be forced to wear a mismatched pair". (Source: https://halupedia.com/humanitarian-accomplishments-of-the-on...

lxgr•about 1 hour ago

We should really host another one though; I think I've since lost a few more.

janwillemb•about 2 hours ago

It's nice, but after a few clicks my LLM content fatigue kicks in.

meghneelgore•about 2 hours 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).

busymom0•about 1 hour ago

Now I want to know the site.

throw310822•about 2 hours ago

Funny. Small improvement suggestion: the entry about "Glorbonian culinary arts" links to "the subterranean nation of Glorbonia". However upon clicking the link to "Glorbonia", an entry is generated claiming that "Glorbonia refers to a peculiar and largely uncatalogued form of sub-auditory resonance". It would be cool if some context were carried over from the referrer page so that there is some coherence between entries (ah, and some existing entries could be taken in account when generating new ones).

gavmor•about 2 hours ago

Hm, the page generated seems inconsistent with the usage of the original link.

arduanika•about 2 hours 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

bstrama•about 2 hours ago

Just added comment section :)

bstrama•about 2 hours ago

Great suggestion! Will immediately look into that!

mmooss•about 2 hours ago

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

This should be on YC's About page.

dmje•about 3 hours ago

I LOVE IT. Superb.

jijilao•about 2 hours ago

wtf, I thought these were just anecdotes until I saw they were actually happening in Astoria. I used to visit in the summers and never heard about any of that! Stop the fake news

tukunjil•about 2 hours ago

All the world are going mad with artificial intelligence and LLMs. Just disgusting!

FergusArgyll•about 2 hours ago

Who says llms can't be funny?!