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Posted by bstrama 3 days ago

Show HN: Hallucinopedia(halupedia.com)
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leecoursey 3 days ago|
My favorite of the several I generated this evening:

https://halupedia.com/recursive-trolley-problem

MrEldritch 2 days ago||
Noticed it kept using the term 'resonator' or 'resonance', decided to navigate to a page for 'resonance cascade' as a joke, and discovered this fantastically broken article: https://halupedia.com/resonance-cascade
layer8 2 days ago|
I’ve seen this `">` in various articles. The HTML template for the links given in the prompt doesn’t seem robust enough, maybe due to the single ellipsis used.
driggs 3 days ago||
This site is going to be expensive when a web crawler hits it. A honey pot that burns tokens.
janalsncm 3 days ago|
They’re caching the pages which have already been generated. You could go back and delete all references to pages which don’t exist yet. Basically turn it into a static website.
driggs 3 days ago||
It seems like the site's algorithm is that every newly-generate page includes multiple links to not-yet-existing pages. So it doesn't matter that existing pages are cached, all the "leaf node" pages link to multiple uncached new pages.
janalsncm 3 days ago||
I’m suggesting to turn that off and prune the links to pages which weren’t generated yet if cost becomes an issue.
nickvec 3 days ago||
Seeing “Something broke, which is ironic for a made-up encyclopedia: Load failed” when trying to access some of the suggested starting points
bstrama 3 days ago|
Works on my PC.

Could you gimme the url that's failing?

nickvec 3 days ago||
It’s working now, not sure what was going on earlier.
TazeTSchnitzel 2 days ago||
Perhaps inspired by the name, I searched for something hallucinogen-related, and I thought “The Committee for the Regulation of Opaque Visions” (one of the suggestions for not-yet-generated pages) sounded exciting. Sure enough: https://halupedia.com/the-committee-for-the-regulation-of-op....

Delightful style, this is much more fun than copying Wikipedia. Everything reads like elaborate fiction.

verse 1 day ago||
This is awesome, it feels a lot like the SCP Foundation wiki.

Here's one I just made: https://halupedia.com/buildings-within-buildings

verse 1 day ago|
This page links to https://halupedia.com/observations-on-architectural-recursio...

Only problem I'm seeing is that you'd want pages to recognise when they're talking about the same thing, so that you don't have duplicates with slightly different titles and content. You'd want to avoid it re-introducing the same concept if it could refer to an existing matching concept on another page.

E.g. if I make another page https://halupedia.com/buildings-within-buildings-2, I'd expect it to refer to /buildings-within-buildings. Currently it doesn't mention it at all.

I'd also expect /architectural-recursion to mention Archibald Plinth, since he's the author of /observations-on-architectural-recursion. Instead, it mentions Archibald Flicker.

Maybe this can be solved with some kind of graph structure?

VorpalWay 2 days ago||
Love 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 historical events from up to the 20the century. I could see a sci-fi version of this being pretty interesting.

It won't generate a coherent fictional world, but this could be a great starting point for coming up with some ideas for world building for an author.

bstrama 2 days ago|
Agreed. If you have some time, you can find our GitHub on halupedia.com. All PRs welcomed! ;)
n00bskoolbus 3 days ago||
One suggestion for improvement is avoiding creation of self referential links. For example https://halupedia.com/chaldic-arithmetic has many references links to itself.
RIMR 3 days ago||
The 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.
rootusrootus 3 days ago|
In today's world it does not take long to be reminded that we cannot have nice things. Or maybe the gov't has their own bot army to wreak havoc and convince voters that actually, we really do want privacy-ending ID verification laws after all.
drob518 3 days ago|
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 entry and how do you keep the steampunk vibe going?
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