Show HN: HN as TikTok, welcome to HN hell

I think both of these projects miss what makes TikTok (and reels in general) so effective.<p>A good TikTok video gets &quot;injected into your brain&quot;. You have zero effort to provide and suddenly this stuff is in your mind. I&#x27;m not saying it&#x27;s a good thing, I realize the danger, but that&#x27;s the core mechanism.<p>A friend in marketing describes this in terms of &quot;brain calories&quot;. Eg if people have to <i>think</i> in order to understand your landing page, you failed to communicate your ideas efficiently, as it &quot;requires too many brain calories&quot;. TikTok content requires zero brain calories.<p>One could say that only very shallow information could be spread this way (eg people dancing, video game clips) but I&#x27;m not sure that&#x27;s true. The real challenge would be to turn an arbitrary source of information (wikipedia, hn) and make it immediately graspable. I suspect modern AI models could already go quite far in this direction.<p>Veritasium is a good example of interesting yet very graspable content: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tiktok.com&#x2F;@veritasium&#x2F;video&#x2F;7329576935317622058" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tiktok.com&#x2F;@veritasium&#x2F;video&#x2F;7329576935317622058</a>

Make it generate a short video for every thread, with a summary of the subject and some of the quarrels in the comments section and you&#x27;re set. Make sure it uses all the ridiculous shenanigans tiktok users resort to, as well.

To make it truly hell, you need AI help:<p>Generate a scantily clad anime furry dancing for 30 seconds while talking about summarized HN content (SSH, Rails, React, etc.) narrated by a seductive female AI voice.

The concept has potential...<p>It&#x27;s still an aggregator of links though.<p>You&#x27;re missing the &quot;zero effort&quot; factor, which could be achieved by summarizing the content and generating some AI cartoon or video based on it. It would be somewhat costly but much more fun to browse.

Oh, thanks! That was such a quick implementation—and a nice addition to the <i>Show HN</i> gallery, especially for HN-related projects.<p>When I came across WikiTok yesterday, the first thought that popped into my mind was how this format could work for HN. And here we are!<p>With the abundance of AI coding assistants available today, creating prototypes, demos, or MVPs can now be done in just a few hours instead of taking days or even weeks. As developers, we should absolutely take advantage of these tools to stay ahead and remain innovative—otherwise, we might risk being left behind!

Bug report: On iPhone (with Safari url bar set to bottom), the titles are all clipped at the bottom. I think it has to do with your website using the screen height instead of the visible part only.

Fun little project! And possibly my future productivity black hole...<p>I noticed that on mobile Firefox the bottom part of the screen (username, date) are cut off by the address bar. Just a nitpick

Ah my favorite content source in brain rot format. Thank you

The bad SSL cert is the perfect feature for this.

That was definitely hell on my LittleSnitch &quot;protected&quot; laptop. I was bombarded with outgoing network connections before I closed the browser tab. I must have approved&#x2F;denied several hundred connections to different sites before abandoning the effort.

This is cool! I’ve had it on my back burner to recreate the fun of StumbleUpon, but make it a TikTok copycat UI. I planned to go back and feed it with years of HN links. This is basically it!

For this to work properly, I feel like it has to show the article without having to click on anything. As it is right now the experience doesn&#x27;t feel much like TikTok

Both URLs blocked by corporate firewall because of bad SSL.

I kinda like it for discovery. It plops content in my face that I might have missed or ignored. Not a replacement but great for skimming.

Neat! You should add<p><pre><code> scroll-snap-stop: always; </code></pre> to each slide so it won&#x27;t scroll past the next slide due to inertia.

This is actually pretty good. Would be nice if it supported arrow keys to scroll down&#x2F;up on your computer

Use an LLM to summarize each page in one sentence. This takes too much effort to feel like TikTok.

Pretty good! Could definitely use more thunder and subway surfers overlays, though.

I expected dancing teenagers singing the texts of the posts.

Funny I was thinking the same after seeing wikitok

This a fun little experiment. Nice job!

haha clicking on this link in the app

Use 100dvh!!!

Me likey

what if stripe.com was a really good tiktok video?

I like this.