Show HN: Wikihack – HackerTube, but for Wikipedia articles mentioned on HN

Wikihack presents Wikipedia articles mentioned on Hacker News in a browsing format inspired by HackerTube. Some commenters liked that it links directly to the HN conversations: nomilk said the context around a link can be as enjoyable as, or more useful than, the material itself, and suggested surfacing comments on the main page to help decide what to read. Another commenter proposed support for non-English Wikipedia, arguing that culturally specific niche subjects may have no English article. Others noted practical concerns: one found the desktop display seemed limited to a mobile layout, while another wanted a durable custom domain rather than a project hosted on Netlify.

Reactions also reflected mixed feelings about the wave of “HackerFoo” projects. Some commenters joked about increasingly recursive variants and wished the HN front page were full of them; others complained that Show HN had shifted from intellectual curiosity toward low-effort “slop,” or treated the project’s popularity as a product of passive-aggressive humor. In comparing it with HackerTube, commenters valued Wikihack’s visible HN context, while one recalled that HackerTube offered summaries and comment links on individual videos. Another suggested HackerTube benefited substantially from being made by Andrej Karpathy, and a commenter agreed that influence now seems to matter more as novelty projects become easier to produce.