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

2026-11-02 @ 05:06:30Points: 324Comments: 96

I scraped all mentions of wikipedia on hackernews and ranked them, and turn them into a scrollable feed to make it a bit more easy to digest / interact with. You can see where people submitted the articles and where people mentioned it in comments.

The top shows the most frequently linked articles.

Random is random but slightly weighted towards the more frequently linked articles (a little bit like Wikipedia actually).

Rising is ranked towards the past 12 months.

The entire site is served only through the frontend -- I'll add more features if people enjoy this!

F/OSS Comics #13: BSD Unix, Part 3 – The Beginning of BSD Unix

2026-11-02 @ 01:59:38Points: 187Comments: 24

AI fan wikis riddled with errors are muddying the waters of games culture

2026-11-02 @ 01:47:07Points: 99Comments: 96

Bones may release proteins that slow aging and extend life span

2026-11-02 @ 01:31:07Points: 243Comments: 87

Trigger.dev customer environment variables exposed

2026-11-02 @ 01:09:16Points: 150Comments: 77

OccupySaaS

2026-11-02 @ 00:17:27Points: 446Comments: 274

Ask HN: Which TV do you recommend for privacy?

2026-11-01 @ 19:35:27Points: 603Comments: 710

I have heard good things about Apple TV as a better alternative to most smart TV native apps. Would some TV’s pair better with this than others for privacy? I don’t want the TV doing anything other than being the display for Apple TV.

I am curious what success others have had.

Mathematics has changed. Let's act like it

2026-11-01 @ 18:28:42Points: 362Comments: 467

Seoul Viosys begins production of rare-earth-free white light emitter

2026-11-01 @ 16:23:26Points: 185Comments: 70

Show HN: HackerBooks – HackerTube, but for books mentioned on HN

2026-11-01 @ 15:58:28Points: 1746Comments: 286

It's ~16.5k books that at least two different HN commenters brought up, from 2007 till now. Each book links back to the comments that mentioned it. Data is downloadable from the about page.

To be clear: Claude wrote almost all of it, including the data pipeline and the site. I mostly steered and made calls, bought the domain name, etc.

It counts mentions, so it's not perfect (praising a book and trashing it both count). If your favourite book is missing or matched to the wrong thing, tell me.

Lenovo's 'encrypted' fingerprint USB is just an unencrypted SD card in a case

2026-11-01 @ 14:34:43Points: 540Comments: 169

Novellas with Groff

2026-11-01 @ 13:51:41Points: 127Comments: 52

Proving and improving the Platonic Representation Hypothesis with JEPAs

2026-11-01 @ 13:24:49Points: 158Comments: 81

Show HN: OmniDiff – Opensource, super fast, content aware Git difftool, in Rust

2026-11-01 @ 13:02:30Points: 295Comments: 92

OmniDiff can diff: code (25 languages), config, images, PDFs, archives, cursors, fonts...

It's fast. It can diff C++ files of tens of thousands of lines in under 100ms, on a 2023 ThinkPad T14s.

It's open source. AGPLv3.

It's based on real diffs. I looked at the 7400 repositories that are listed in Gentoo packages, sampled 2000 diffs and solved them manually to get a good understanding of what is needed, before putting together the diff pipelines for each content type. Incidentally, this also forms the basis of the CI pipeline, so the robustness of the codebase is quite high.

I'm still developing it. It's v0.3.0 at this time. But I have been using it daily as my git difftool for months now, and it works well.

AI Disclosure: Yes, I do use AI. No, I do not vibecode.

Domain hacks with unusual Unicode characters (2018)

2026-11-01 @ 10:44:20Points: 99Comments: 58

The AI cost of JavaScript frameworks

2026-11-01 @ 06:06:19Points: 448Comments: 332

Bidirectional charging during grid outages

2026-10-31 @ 20:21:55Points: 108Comments: 162

HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HN

2026-10-31 @ 19:56:53Points: 2761Comments: 612

The She-Wolves of Jülich

2026-10-31 @ 17:29:39Points: 39Comments: 6

Mystery of 60-Second Fluctuations in Power Grids Solved

2026-10-31 @ 11:53:47Points: 231Comments: 94

One-minute frequency disturbances from synchronization in power systems

2026-10-31 @ 10:14:08Points: 177Comments: 57

Show HN: I rebuilt my old canvas 3D library as a small WebGL 2 library – phoria2

2026-10-31 @ 09:49:42Points: 100Comments: 29

Postgres 19 is late because so many more bugs are being found now

2026-10-31 @ 01:38:56Points: 736Comments: 439

Copper – A minimal low-level programming language with OOP and generics

2026-10-30 @ 19:09:33Points: 197Comments: 109

Keeping Up Appearances – The women taking over the funeral industry

2026-10-30 @ 12:40:08Points: 54Comments: 41

Nibnib: Image compression with extreme decompression speed

2026-10-30 @ 04:17:06Points: 179Comments: 31

New 3D thermal invisibility cloak makes objects disappear from infrared cameras

2026-10-30 @ 03:06:52Points: 106Comments: 41

Show HN: Point your camera at a landscape to learn about its geology

2026-10-29 @ 15:22:41Points: 246Comments: 51

I'm in Minnesota, so i haven't had a chance to test it on a huge amount of terrain (the best I've found is the Mississippi River gorge in the twin cities... I need a trip up north), so anyone that's somewhere with some more bumps: please help!).

It's stuck in the Apple review queue, but it's up on testflight for anyone interested. Google approved it quickly and it's fully out on android (links to both on the marketing site).

edit: got a report that testflight was asking for an install code. Seems like a testflight app issue, but dismissing it and installing as normal seems to work!

Radiation Map of the World

2026-10-28 @ 20:06:27Points: 203Comments: 54

Tips for more effective fuzz testing with AFL++

2026-10-28 @ 09:46:12Points: 148Comments: 28

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