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Show HN: Rabbit Holes

43 pointsby amanmathur9 months ago
Built a way to spatially explore wikipedia topics!<p>Enter a topic of your choice and dig into the rabbit hole. All content is from Wikipedia—related topics are generated with GPT based on the summary.<p>Spacebar to expand a topic inline, arrow keys to move around, and &quot;J&quot; to open journey view!

10 comments

dimal9 months ago
Cool idea. I’d suggest a few tweaks to improve text formatting. Justified text generally doesn’t read well on a device. Better to justify left. And paragraph breaks seem to be lost, which makes it harder to read and scan.
g-adamante9 months ago
I like the concept! I don&#x27;t like the wall of text. It&#x27;s hard to concentrate &#x2F; parse what&#x27;s in the text box. Keep working on it, it has potential.
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vintagedave9 months ago
Great idea. Your site may have been hugged to death, but if it&#x27;s supposed to be working now, please check on Safari: viewing a topic shows a blank scrollable rectangle where there should be article text, and not much else.<p>I second another commenter&#x27;s idea of a minimap: let&#x27;s visually build the rabbit warren! Just like this:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.researchgate.net&#x2F;figure&#x2F;Rabbit-warren-with-entrances-1-15-covers-an-area-of-260-m-2-Point-A-indicates-the_fig1_236661270" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.researchgate.net&#x2F;figure&#x2F;Rabbit-warren-with-entra...</a>
thomascountz9 months ago
This is a cool idea and is fun to explore. It would be cool to be able to revisit a page&#x2F;topic via the journey view. (Perhaps you can, but I&#x27;m unable to on Firefox iOS). I think it&#x27;s interesting that each time I revisit a topic, I might be given a different set of choices; leading me down a different branch. Thanks for sharing!
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robbles9 months ago
I opened this on a mobile device, and it only shows the top and bottom topic buttons. I was pretty confused until I tried turning on &quot;desktop site&quot; in Chrome and saw the left&#x2F;right buttons. Having only a linear track of topics kind of undermines the overall idea!
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bhargav9 months ago
Love this concept but I wish it did not pick topics that were so &quot;distant&quot; from the current topic.<p>Initial topic: Pizza Recommended nodes: Pizzerias, Italian cuisine, Woodfired Ovens, Neapolitan Pizzas<p>At L1, I&#x27;d expect more of the last, such as type of pizza.
cobertos9 months ago
So is down &quot;deeper&quot; into the rabbit hole? Or is down more specific and up is more general? Or is it just a related topic (meaning up and down aren&#x27;t different in any way)?
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piyushtechsavy9 months ago
Cool idea, however I feel the linked topics are pretty narrow and may not be very related. It could be more like a map.
rickcarlino9 months ago
Would be fun if it had a language selector.
samstave9 months ago
&quot;All wikipedia entries lead to philosophy:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;duckduckgo.com&#x2F;?t=ffab&amp;q=wikipedia+always+leads+to+philisophy&amp;ia=web" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;duckduckgo.com&#x2F;?t=ffab&amp;q=wikipedia+always+leads+to+p...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;old.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;philosophy&#x2F;comments&#x2F;iqatv&#x2F;wikipedia_always_leads_to_philosophy&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;old.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;philosophy&#x2F;comments&#x2F;iqatv&#x2F;wikipedia...</a><p>--<p>Did any of this come up for you when you built this?<p>Is this a rabbit hole<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;PDjVH2J.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;PDjVH2J.png</a><p>But the UI is neat -- but it REALLY needs a minimap in the corner that will give me the path of my Rabbit&#x27;s Warren.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;E0WpuQU.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;E0WpuQU.png</a><p>Also navigate by WSAD like Bards Tale - and walk through the concept map with keyboard.