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Exactly, but I consider adding fake search that could find you ANY article, including not existent ones
halupedia.com#ai encyclopedia#llm generated wiki#satire#hallucination#fictional articles
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47 positive, 61 neutral or asking, 11 mixed, 39 critical, out of 158 comments about the project. Thread score +0.04.
Idea: 29 for, 11 againstExecution: 2 for, 23 againstDesign: 7 for, 3 againstPerformance: 1 for, 1 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 1 against
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What people liked
Funny and fun to browse, with a Borges or SCP-like feel
From 3 comments
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…
arduanika on HNJust added comment section :)
bstrama on HNThis is awesome, it feels a lot like the SCP Foundation wiki. Here's one I just made: https://halupedia.com/buildings-within-buildings
verse on HN
Articles are generated once and then stored, so loads are fast
From 2 comments
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
bstrama on HNAlso now that I think, we store articles in decwntralized cloudflare KV store and access from serverless workers running also on their servers. That could be the thing behind it…
bstrama on HN
Objections
Generated pages contain antisemitic and offensive content from user-defaced titles
From 3 comments
It’s been defaced. It’s already got sex crimes and antisemitism all over the place.
jagged-chisel on HNLots of antisemitism on there. Search “Jews”
berellevy on HNgreat. someone has abused the "arbitrary URL" driggs@ mentioned, and now every entry has an offensive title prefixed by a number.
newbro on HN
Could be expensive to run under web crawler load
From 1 comment
This site is going to be expensive when a web crawler hits it. A honey pot that burns tokens.
driggs on HN
Possibly harmful to the web and adds to slop
From 2 comments
Funny, but you could argue this is actively harmful to the web.
JohnMakin on HNThis is what every LLM will converge into without curated human input.
anthk on HN
Requests
Moderation or flagging of offensive titles
From 3 comments
This is really cool, I just wish people wouldn't deface the website by submitting hateful speech as titles.
notenlish on HNI believe the website needs more moderation..
Chrisszz on HNThe All Entries (https://halupedia.com/all-entries) part of the site is a bit alarming. I think OP might want to do a little bit of basic automoderation here.
RIMR on HN
Use linked-from page context for coherent generated articles
From 2 comments
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…
diputsmonro on HNFunny. Small improvement suggestion: the entry about "Glorbonian culinary arts" links to "the subterranean nation of Glorbonia". However upon clicking the link to "Glorbonia", an…
throw310822 on HN
Avoid self-referential links
From 1 comment
One suggestion for improvement is avoiding creation of self referential links. For example https://halupedia.com/chaldic-arithmetic has many references links to itself.
n00bskoolbus on HN
Questions
What is the architecture and prompt behind it?
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I love it. What’s the rough architecture of the system (using cloud LLM and paying $$$, or local)? The performance for new entries is really good. What is the prompt for each…
drob518 on HNLove this idea. I'm curious as to the prompt used and code behind it. I could see this being fun with some tweaks as well. For example, currently it seems to prefer to generate…
VorpalWay on HN
Alternatives named
Grokipedia
From 2 comments
Finally a more trustworthy version of Grokipedia!
solarkraft on HNGrokipedia is already doing that.
slig on HN
SCP Foundation wiki
From 2 comments
I made an SCP foundation inspired page: https://halupedia.com/hard-to-detroy-reptile My favorite link generated there is the Institute for Unyielding Biology:…
pivot_root on HNThis is awesome, it feels a lot like the SCP Foundation wiki. Here's one I just made: https://halupedia.com/buildings-within-buildings
verse on HN