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Show HN: I made a tool to download all of Wikipedia on a weekly basis

https://github.com/ternera/auto-wikipedia-download

1•ternera•4h ago

Hi everyone. This tool exists as a way to quickly and easily download all of Wikipedia (as a .bz2 archive) from the Wikimedia data dumps, but it also prompts users to automate the process by downloading an updated version and replacing the old download every week. I plan to throw this on a Linux server and thought it may come in useful for others!

Inspiration came from the following comment on Reddit, which asked about automating the process:

https://www.reddit.com/r/YouShouldKnow/comments/whxmhc/comme...

Mega-buildings are now slowing Earth's spin

https://www.sciencefocus.com/news/human-structures-slowing-earths-spin

1•amichail•1m ago•0 comments

CBS Folds in Response to Baseless Trump Threats

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/04/30/cbs-folds-like-a-moist-flushable-towelette-in-response-to-baseless-trump-threats/

4•DanAtC•3m ago•0 comments

Tolkien Against the Grain

https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/tolkien-against-the-grain/

1•lermontov•5m ago•0 comments

Apache Flink 2.0.0

https://flink.apache.org/2025/03/24/apache-flink-2.0.0-a-new-era-of-real-time-data-processing/

1•matthewolfe•5m ago•0 comments

Microsoft Profit Increases 18% While It Slows A.I. Spending

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/technology/microsoft-earnings-ai-spending.html

1•reaperducer•6m ago•0 comments

Confidential AI

https://tinfoil.sh

1•ATechGuy•7m ago•0 comments

Plant and gardening data made simple

https://www.verdantly.io/

1•stephenwsun•9m ago•0 comments

Be Productively Pessimistic

https://dontbreakprod.com/posts/be-productively-pessimistic

1•dorkrawk•11m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: What benchmarks are you using to judge AI models?

2•cowpig•12m ago•0 comments

Will Wright's memories game, Proxi, as hard to pitch and fund as The Sims

https://venturebeat.com/business/gallium-studios-finds-will-wrights-memories-game-proxi-as-hard-to-pitch-as-the-sims/

1•SLHamlet•12m ago•0 comments

Elon Musk's Legacy: DOGE's Construction of a Surveillance State

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/opinion/musk-doge-data-ai.html

2•reaperducer•12m ago•0 comments

Challenge: Make this Go function inlinable and free of bounds checks

https://jub0bs.com/posts/2025-04-30-inlinability-challenge/

2•programd•13m ago•0 comments

The Risks of Incinerating Forever Chemicals

https://undark.org/2025/04/30/incinerating-pfas-risks/

1•EA-3167•13m ago•0 comments

Satellite messaging mess: Sorting through satellite messaging options

https://advisorator.com/members/2025/04/30/the-satellite-messaging-mess/

2•harambae•14m ago•0 comments

Supreme Court appears ready to bless the first public religious charter school

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/30/supreme-court-favors-first-religious-charter-school-00318087

1•impish9208•15m ago•0 comments

The Strange Physics That Gave Birth to AI

https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-strange-physics-that-gave-birth-to-ai-20250430/

1•amichail•16m ago•1 comments

'Dire Picture' for BTC Miners as Revenue Flatlines Near Record Low

https://www.coindesk.com/business/2025/04/20/chart-of-the-day-dire-picture-for-btc-miners-as-revenue-flatlines-near-record-low

1•PaulHoule•17m ago•0 comments

Substitute YAML with Nouns and Verbs in CI/CD Pipelines

https://dagger.io/blog/substitute-yaml-with-nouns-and-verbs-in-ci-cd-pipelines

1•sourishkrout•18m ago•0 comments

The Joy of Aeroplane Mode Programming

https://blog.mattbearman.com/aeroplane-mode-code/

3•MattBearman•20m ago•0 comments

Stop trying to make recruiters think

https://interviewing.io/blog/stop-trying-to-make-recruiters-think-or-why-your-resume-is-bad-and-how-to-fix-it

1•leeny•21m ago•0 comments

With song and seed, Brazil's Indigenous Maxakali confront climate change

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/longform/2025/4/30/with-song-and-seed-brazils-indigenous-maxakali-confront-climate-change

1•Qem•21m ago•0 comments

ChatGPT MCP

https://personas.omi.me/

1•kodjima33•23m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Will AI make humans smarter or dumber in the long run?

1•furrowedbrow•24m ago•0 comments

All blue-eyed people descended from single ancestor mutation 6k-8k years ago

https://cpp-college.netlify.app/programs/education-blog/behind-blue-eyes-look-genetic-and-cultural-components-propelled-spread-blue-eyed-humans/

2•bookofjoe•26m ago•1 comments

AUI Framework – graphical desktop applications using C++20

https://aui-framework.github.io/master/

1•smartmic•28m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Unscanny – an app designed to turn screenshots into actions

1•goktugcancakmak•29m ago•1 comments

Hire Me Indie HR Consultant

https://mariamarcakis.com/

1•mmarcakis•35m ago•1 comments

China suggests Covid-19 originated in US in response to Trump allegation

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/china-releases-white-paper-covid-19-origins-tracing-xinhua-reports-2025-04-30/

6•ironyman•38m ago•2 comments

Little Language Lessons

https://labs.google/lll/en

1•skogstokig•44m ago•1 comments

What AI Can't Replace: Intuition, Alignment, and Taste

https://startupsoup.substack.com/p/what-ai-cant-replace-intuition-alignment

1•aaronng91•45m ago•0 comments