>>rebane+(OP)
I wonder if this would be a "better" way to build this thing: https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/01/duckdb-iceberg-browser-s3...

DuckDB loaded in the browser via WebAssembly and Parquet files in S3.

>>rebane+(OP)
Love the concept. Wikitok also exists [1] but the recommendation aspect that you're bringing you the table is a very intriguing original spin on it. I would be fascinated to see what a smart algorithm could discover on my behalf on Wikipedia given enough time.

I think it would be nice if you could do a non simple English version but nevertheless happy with what you've put together, and I've added a shortcut to my phone. Please don't let the negativity stop you from continuing to work on it.

1. https://www.wikitok.io/

>>glenst+Zn
First thing I see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esophageal_cancer

Thank you.

>>rebane+(OP)
TIL:

The United States Virgin Islands are a group of islands in the Caribbean Sea. They are currently owned and under the authority of the United States Government. They used to be owned by Denmark (and called Danish West Indies). They were sold to the U.S. on January 17, 1917, because of fear that the Germans would capture them and use them as a submarine base in World War I.

https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Virgin_Islan...

>>rebane+(OP)
Built something similar for research papers: https://www.producthunt.com/products/soch

>>rebane+5u
Impressive! We're a university lab and published recommendation algorithms. Never knew that doomscrolling could be this addictive this fast, thnx!

Please consider taking an hour and push this to a Github with quick readme. Scientists and developers would get it. We have been building a torrent-based alternative to Youtube for a few years. Not many knowledge out there around operational frontpage algorithm.

Edit: https://github.com/rebane2001/xikipedia

>>rebane+(OP)
See also: https://www.wikitok.io/

And a plug for my own (fiendishly difficult) Wikipedia-based game:

https://studiowgx.willgrant.org/wikipedia-golf/

>>rebane+(OP)
I think what is interesting is that it is not necessarily the content of the brainrot that makes us underperform, but the act of swiping [0] and the context switching [1].

These attempts to make educational short form content still suffer from the same drawbacks, so I wonder how effective they truly are.

[0] https://cyberpsychology.eu/article/view/33099

[1] https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/09658211.2025.252107...

>>nickor+p31
(Could have the client download the blob from where the repo is hosted on GitHub, which takes under a second for me to download: https://github.com/rebane2001/xikipedia/raw/refs/heads/mane/...)

>>rebane+(OP)
- https://wikispeedruns.com/

- https://sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/

- https://www.wikitok.io/

>>rebane+(OP)
I abadoned facebook since I couldnt stand the feed experience anymore. Recently learned about using https://www.facebook.com/?sk=h_chr in combintation with extension https://www.fbpurity.com/ which give me a chronological feed of groups and people i actually want to hear from. The most astonishing experience is how calm I feel consuming this cleaned up feed. Almost all negative emotions seem to stem from the uncontrollable feed experience.

>>abhina+ph
Yeah, the implementation is odd. Cool idea though. Also see:

https://www.wikitok.io/

>>sebast+t31
It's opensource insofar that the javascript is not minified or obfuscated. You can see it at https://github.com/rebane2001/xikipedia too.

>>rebane+(OP)
Cool concept. I built something very similar [1] but as a native iOS app in an attempt to cut down on my doomscrolling, but it turns out it’s hard to get my brain to read plain text when there’s a plethora of dopamine overloading video apps available.

1. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/egghead-scroll-learn/id6630364...