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How HN took it
12 positive, 21 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 8 critical, out of 41 comments about the project. Thread score +0.12.
Execution: 1 for, 7 againstIdea: 3 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Fun for discovering unexpected connections between articles
From 4 comments
This is absolutely amazing. I built wikiscroll.blankenship.io for myself to scratch my neophile itch. You might be displacing it in my daily routine, a nice pre-built rabbit hole…
r3trohack3r on HNThis is pretty neat! I tried https://www.wikibinge.com/#Moray_eel/Sony_Alpha and I was pleased with the path it took me for first big chunk of the path. The last bit was a tour…
Kerrick on HNThis is excellent. The path from "George Barnes (Musician)" to "Django Reinhardt" somehow managed to pass through Hysterectomy, 5-Bromouracil, Glucuronidation and Port Bannatyne…
adrianh on HNit's nice that it highlights less popular and obvious - i've discovered a lot linking potato to the Millenium Falcon :) https://www.wikibinge.com/#Potato/Millennium_Falcon
ArekDymalski on HN
Objections
Paths are too long and loose to feel meaningful
From 3 comments
The chains are so long, it's really not that impressive :/
munro on HNUnimpressed - I tried to get a chain from "Mocca, Yemen" to "Jimma". I got a whole long list of stuff about aircraft engines (I do get that the author was trying to make…
denton-scratch on HNAsked to connect two small town on different continent. One of those town manufacture car parts. Then I got 10ish car model from various brand. An actor that did a commercial for…
dopidopHN on HN
Search fails for non-canonical names, parentheses, uppercase and commas
From 4 comments
My first attempt I can't search donut (Doughnut is the canonical), can't type the "()" parenthesis that appear in page names, and can't use any of France, La France, or French…
mcint on HNPretty cool project! FYI for some reason search doesn't seem to work that well. hackNY won't come up and if you try try to add a place with a comma (Lowell, Massachusetts) you…
raybb on HNI couldn't get NODAPL either. Seems to have trouble with uppercased letters?
culi on HNNot "all things." I can't enter arbitrary titles of wiki articles, like "mathematics" and "poetry."
Paul-Craft on HN
Requests
Show the shortest path alongside the long path
From 3 comments
This is absolutely amazing. I built wikiscroll.blankenship.io for myself to scratch my neophile itch. You might be displacing it in my daily routine, a nice pre-built rabbit hole…
r3trohack3r on HN> Since it seems like you are computing both the shortest and the "most interesting" path between the two articles, it would be cool to give me a way to see both on the final…
saltminer on HNThis is pretty neat! I tried https://www.wikibinge.com/#Moray_eel/Sony_Alpha and I was pleased with the path it took me for first big chunk of the path. The last bit was a tour…
Kerrick on HN
Customizable weighting or category exclusions
From 2 comments
I'd love to be able to customize the algorithm. I'm curious what would happen if you placed various weights to optimize for shortest path AND most niche path (or however you'd…
culi on HNWould be great to be able to customize the randomness on the graph. Granted it's a hard problem to solve. I picked two unrelated topics and it seems like most of the bridge is…
anonu on HN
Questions
Is there a tool that finds the shortest path?
From 1 comment
This might be the first time I wish I’d read the comments before visiting the link. Assuming it would find the shortest path, I gave it two very unrelated concepts. I spent way…
tobyjsullivan on HN
Alternatives named
Six Degrees of Wikipedia
From 2 comments
> is there a similar tool that does shortest path? Yes very many of them, like OP said. Here’s a popular one: https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/
codetrotter on HNIf you want the shortest path just use one of the very many websites that does that. For example https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/
codetrotter on HN
The Wiki Game / wiki-race
From 2 comments
It is a pretty fun game https://wiki-race.com/
ramesh1994 on HNhttps://www.thewikigame.com/
MattGaiser on HN
Wikiscroll
From 1 comment
This is absolutely amazing. I built wikiscroll.blankenship.io for myself to scratch my neophile itch. You might be displacing it in my daily routine, a nice pre-built rabbit hole…
r3trohack3r on HN