EncyclopedAI

AI

generative wiki

SHOW HN2025

5points
9comments
#3,358of 3,837 in 2025
Top 88%of 2025 by points

How HN took it

QuietFewer than 5 comments about the project

3 positive, 0 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 1 critical, out of 4 comments about the project.

Execution: 1 for, 0 againstIdea: 1 for, 0 againstPerformance: 0 for, 1 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

  • Funny and a good demonstration of AI pitfalls

    From 1 comment
    • Which AI did you used? It seems it's quite happy with inventing non-existing things [0] or adding nonsense to real things [1]. I like it for that - it's nice artistic…
      severak_cz on HN
  • Works well and looks cool

    From 2 comments
    • Yea this seems to work great. Let's take a look at the entry on the site itself:…
      jscd on HN
    • pretty cool! damn I keep seeing you daily on hacker news, I am greek as well, and I have to say I am very impressed by your resume in your website!!!!
      jimmydin7 on HN

Objections

  • Real-time LLM generation can run up large API bills when scrapers abuse it

    From 1 comment
    • Be careful with something like this. There have been a couple realtime "LLM-generated Wikipedia" sites now. Scrapers/bad actors can make your LLM BILL go brrrr. Prior art…
      vunderba on HN

Requests

  • Add a global rate limit on articles per day

    From 1 comment
    • Hm you're right, thanks, I'll set a global rate limit to articles per day, thanks for the heads up.
      stavros on HN

Questions

  • Which AI model is used

    From 1 comment
    • Which AI did you used? It seems it's quite happy with inventing non-existing things [0] or adding nonsense to real things [1]. I like it for that - it's nice artistic…
      severak_cz on HN

Alternatives named

  • PossibleWorldWikis

    From 1 comment
    • Be careful with something like this. There have been a couple realtime "LLM-generated Wikipedia" sites now. Scrapers/bad actors can make your LLM BILL go brrrr. Prior art…
      vunderba on HN
  • Endless Wiki

    From 1 comment
    • Be careful with something like this. There have been a couple realtime "LLM-generated Wikipedia" sites now. Scrapers/bad actors can make your LLM BILL go brrrr. Prior art…
      vunderba on HN
  • Infinite Wiki Simulator

    From 1 comment
    • Be careful with something like this. There have been a couple realtime "LLM-generated Wikipedia" sites now. Scrapers/bad actors can make your LLM BILL go brrrr. Prior art…
      vunderba on HN

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