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  • driggs
    This is fantastic. I couldn't find any obvious way to search for a new page, but you can simply bang out any arbitrary URL slug and the new article will be hallucinated fresh, eg:https://halupedia.com/shortest-cave-in-the-worldhttps://halupedia.com/echolocation-ability-in-spiders
  • layer8
    The model seems to have an unhealthy obsession with fungi: https://halupedia.com/alan-turingWhich I guess makes some sense for a hallucinopedia.
  • leecoursey
    My favorite of the several I generated this evening:https://halupedia.com/recursive-trolley-problem
  • jagged-chisel
    It’s been defaced. It’s already got sex crimes and antisemitism all over the place.
  • petercooper
    Give it a week and see what Google AI Overview has to say about the Great Pigeon Census of 1887!
  • pivot_root
    I made an SCP foundation inspired page: https://halupedia.com/hard-to-detroy-reptileMy favorite link generated there is the Institute for Unyielding Biology: https://halupedia.com/institute-for-unyielding-biology
  • diputsmonro
    It's pretty fun to poke at! Although it's certainly difficult to be exact, it would be neat if generated pages used the context of the pages they were linked from (ideally, all pages that link to it) to guide the direction of the page. From the ones I generated it seemed they were mostly independent.
  • solarkraft
    Finally a more trustworthy version of Grokipedia!
  • bstrama
    UPDATE: Just now, comment section added. Have a nice time arguing!
  • HomeDeLaPot
  • lxgr
    Ironically, this seems much faster (for pages already, erm, "researched") than the real one! How?
  • n00bskoolbus
    One suggestion for improvement is avoiding creation of self referential links. For example https://halupedia.com/chaldic-arithmetic has many references links to itself.
  • JohnMakin
    Funny, but you could argue this is actively harmful to the web.
  • soupspaces
  • anon
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  • driggs
    This site is going to be expensive when a web crawler hits it. A honey pot that burns tokens.
  • jakub_g
    Reminded me of this old, pre-LLM git docs generator:https://git-man-page-generator.lokaltog.net/
  • cachius
  • bstrama
    Can't wait to see the next generation of LLMs after feeding it all of that hahaha
  • JSR_FDED
    Absolutely perfect. Monty Python on demand.
  • nickvec
    Seeing “Something broke, which is ironic for a made-up encyclopedia: Load failed” when trying to access some of the suggested starting points
  • nlehuen
  • drob518
    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?
  • pluc
    Why isn't this .gov
  • janwillemb
    It's nice, but after a few clicks my LLM content fatigue kicks in.
  • winocm
  • berellevy
    Lots of antisemitism on there. Search “Jews”
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  • throw310822
    Funny. Small improvement suggestion: the entry about "Glorbonian culinary arts" links to "the subterranean nation of Glorbonia". However upon clicking the link to "Glorbonia", an entry is generated claiming that "Glorbonia refers to a peculiar and largely uncatalogued form of sub-auditory resonance". It would be cool if some context were carried over from the referrer page so that there is some coherence between entries (ah, and some existing entries could be taken in account when generating new ones).
  • arduanika
    Love it! It feels very Borges!Feature request: also be able to click on the Talk page to see the controversies. I don't always want to trust the article itself as the final word.Edit: Oh look, there's an article about the YC! https://halupedia.com/y-combinator
  • meghneelgore
    Great idea! I created an adjacent website that gives, shall we say, "alternative facts" about your questions. (don't know if the rules allow me to link the site so I won't).
  • rootusrootus
    I wonder how long it will be before Canis dementialis becomes a standalone meme.
  • sofayam
    Currently breaks if you try to create a page with a Japanese slug. Multiple languages would make this an even more valuable resource than it already is.
  • RIMR
    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.
  • anthk
    https://halupedia.com/computerThis is perfect. Very Neal Stephensony.Also, this, but with no AI: https://ifdb.org/viewgame?id=032krqe6bjn5au78Just incredible prose and writing (and gameplay), with something you can run with Frotz/NFrotz/LectRote or any ZMachine interpreter (or Glulxe like Gargoyle). A Pentium would run this and marvel you in a similar way.No need to waste tons of water in datacenters.
  • pinkmuffinere
    I find the handling of NSFW topics (and how it avoids making them nsfw) really interesting. Eg https://halupedia.com/fuck (aside from the title it seems SFW to me)
  • gavmor
    Hm, the page generated seems inconsistent with the usage of the original link.
  • anthk
    This is what every LLM will converge into without curated human input.
  • Falimonda
  • dmje
    I LOVE IT. Superb.
  • JLemay
    this is excellent haha
  • FergusArgyll
    Who says llms can't be funny?!
  • jijilao
    wtf, I thought these were just anecdotes until I saw they were actually happening in Astoria. I used to visit in the summers and never heard about any of that! Stop the fake news
  • mmooss
    As I said in another comment, this is brilliant. Suggestion: Remove anything that isn't part of the satire; act always as if it's a 'real' encyclopedia. For example on the front page I would remove,> Articles are generated on demand and stored permanently upon first request.Don't dispell the magic; don't pull back the curtain and let people see the mechanics.EDIT: As you say in your system prompt, "You never wink at the reader. You never acknowledge that anything is funny or fictional. Everything is reported as though it is completely normal and well-documented"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48042306
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  • ivanvoid
    kinda cool but kinda lame, no overall consistency over articles