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Show HN: Hallucinopedia

http://halupedia.com/
46•bstrama•1h ago

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petercooper•1h ago
Give it a week and see what Google AI Overview has to say about the Great Pigeon Census of 1887!
bstrama•1h ago
Can't wait to see the next generation of LLMs after feeding it all of that hahaha
everyos_•55m 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•51m 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•48m ago
I'm aware and will implement SSR soon ;)
m3047•36m ago
It's entirely possible they simply ingest the JS as-is.
JohnMakin•1h ago
Funny, but you could argue this is actively harmful to the web.
isoprophlex•52m 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•22m ago
or something way worse shows up.
JohnMakin•17m ago
Yea, I'm not sure how the "this is really bad so let's make it worse" argument really makes any sense
znort_•8m ago
context. sometimes things simply have to be broken to give way for something better. ymmv.
stronglikedan•50m ago
> you could argue

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

dayofthedaleks•47m 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•45m ago
On the other hand, one could argue that anything that can be destroyed by relatively clearly labeled satire, deserves to be.
Jtarii•43m ago
Pissing on a pile of shit
slig•36m ago
Grokipedia is already doing that.
parliament32•30m 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.
r3trohack3r•22m ago
Interesting, but you could argue comments like this are actively harmful to the web.
AlecSchueler•16m ago
But the argument wouldn't be nearly as strong.
anonymousiam•4m 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.
nickvec•51m 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•49m ago
Works on my PC.

Could you gimme the url that's failing?

dmje•49m ago
I LOVE IT. Superb.
solarkraft•48m ago
Finally a more trustworthy version of Grokipedia!
bstrama•47m ago
It's hilarious, you made my day hahah
LeoPanthera•40m ago
I honestly forgot that Grokipedia existed. Did anyone ever use it?
bstrama•33m 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•7m ago
Somebody showed me it appearing near the top of some of their DuckDuckGo queries.
lxgr•47m ago
Ironically, this seems much faster (for pages already, erm, "researched") than the real one! How?
bstrama•35m 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•20m 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•13m ago
Yep, just a react. Also we use gemini 2.5 flash lite, so it's fast, cheap and dumb.
meghneelgore•35m 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).
FergusArgyll•31m ago
Who says llms can't be funny?!
arduanika•31m 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•24m ago
Great suggestion! Will immediately look into that!
mmooss•2m ago
> Edit: Oh look, there's an article about the YC! https://halupedia.com/y-combinator

This should be on YC's About page.

diputsmonro•30m 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•26m ago
Yeah, thought about that, maybe will implement it. Will keep in mind! For now SSR to feed LLMs' the priority
janwillemb•22m ago
It's nice, but after a few clicks my LLM content fatigue kicks in.
driggs•14m 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•12m ago
Exactly, but I consider adding fake search that could find you ANY article, including not existent ones
mmooss•4m ago
Yes, that would be the perfect touch. This is brilliant satire. We need more satire!
throw310822•10m 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).
jijilao•8m 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•1m ago
All the world are going mad with artificial intelligence and LLMs. Just disgusting!
gavmor•8m ago
Hm, the page generated seems inconsistent with the usage of the original link.
driggs•3m ago
This site is going to be expensive when a web crawler hits it. A honey pot that burns tokens.

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