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Learning and science
generative short-form feed
SHOW HN2026
How HN took it
12 positive, 16 neutral or asking, 8 mixed, 14 critical, out of 50 comments about the project. Thread score +0.00.
Idea: 3 for, 7 againstDesign: 3 for, 5 againstExecution: 0 for, 2 againstPerformance: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.
positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Fun, cool idea and attention to detail in the UI
From 4 comments
The animations + audio are great. I feel like these meaningfully differentiate from some other similar projects. There's a lot of potential here.
personjerry on HNHi there, creator of Wikitok here! Very happy to hear that my random little project inspired you :) The attention to detail in the UI is good - I'm so over every default AI…
aizk on HNHonestly, pretty cool.
lukebechtel on HNLooks super cool
ram_rattle on HN
Knowledge made addictive is a good goal
From 1 comment
Yeah because I think it’s a seriously good idea. Making knowledge and science somewhat addictive is a cool goal I could see myself using that
thiht on HN
Objections
Generated content is shallow and irrelevant
From 3 comments
I thought the scroll didn’t work at first, apparently only the bottom of the screen is scrollable. I see other comments talking about a voice, I don’t have it, just the music?…
thiht on HNIt’s a cool idea but the content needs to be more useful imo.
alexpadula on HNIt's a proof of concept to pave the way. I could see benefit in having series which deep dive into material. This felt too shallow to me.
odie5533 on HN
Captions highlight timing is off and hard to read
From 3 comments
The caption highlight timing is very inaccurate. It looks like it just steps through each word on a fixed timer, rather than using timing information from the TTS engine?
cornonthecobra on HNReading it with sound off is really hard because of the way the words come up one at a time, rather than the whole sentence at once.
furyofantares on HNIn this case, static text without the highlighter would have been better. Because the timing is so far off, the highlighter interferes with reading the captions for hearing…
cornonthecobra on HN
Voice is grating or raspy
From 2 comments
Hilarious. The one AI voice is a little too grating for me, but with a little variation I might actually scroll it for a while.
tylervigen on HNI was confused why someone would possibly configure the voice to be quiet and raspy. Seems like there's an issue with Firefox that was causing it. Chrome voice sounds "normal" -…
omegabravo on HN
Requests
Topic or tag filtering to avoid unwanted content
From 1 comment
This is amazing! I think this could actually catch on! Plz give an easy way to follow some tags so it's not showing me football stuff. If it was just topics I was interested in,…
cons0le on HN
Ability to request a specific Wikipedia article
From 1 comment
Can you request a specific wiki article? I'd like to see https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Dome_(missile_defense_system)
exomonk on HN
Better curation of popular articles
From 1 comment
I thought the scroll didn’t work at first, apparently only the bottom of the screen is scrollable. I see other comments talking about a voice, I don’t have it, just the music?…
thiht on HN
Questions
How are stories chosen and generated?
From 2 comments
This is really cool. I'm interested in the GenUI part. Is the web app itself static and the stories are generated on-demand? Do you give gemini some UI components/templates to…
vedmakk on HNWow this is so freaking awesome! I guess the pages I ended up scrolling on weren't too interesting though, how do you figure out what stories to create/show?
baby on HN
Alternatives named
WikiTok
From 1 comment
Sounds like WikTok (2023, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42936723) or WikiTok (early 2025, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42936723).
xnx on HN
Memepedia
From 1 comment
There's already memepedia
baby on HN