Show HN: Wikihack – HackerTube, but for Wikipedia articles mentioned on HN
- ID
- 41946
- Status
- summarized
- Published
- 02 Nov 2026, 1:06 PM
- Fetched
- 02 Nov 2026, 7:11 PM
- Provider
- Hacker News
- Category
- dev-community
- Original URL
- https://wikihack.netlify.app/
- Source URL
- https://hnrss.org/best
Summary
- Score
- 5.0
- Created
- 02 Nov 2026, 7:11 PM
- Tags
- Audience
- developersvibe_coders
What happened
WikiHack is a Show HN side project (wikihack.netlify.app) that indexes Wikipedia articles linked from Hacker News and ranks them by how many distinct HN users cited them, with top/rising/front-page/topics feeds and per-article pages. Example entries show the mechanic concretely: Jevons paradox carries ▲396 HNers across 544 links spanning 2010–2026, and Executive Order 11246 shows ▲6 HNers across 7 links from 2017–2025, each with a quoted comment excerpt and a link back to the HN thread. It reached 197 points and 56 comments on the discussion thread.
Why it matters
This is a working template for a niche discovery site built entirely on two public APIs — HN link data plus Wikipedia/Wikimedia thumbnails — and the visible design choice worth copying is the per-article 'distinct HNers' count plus date range (544 links, 2010–2026) rather than a raw link tally, which is what makes an old article look alive again. If you have been sitting on a 'what does my community keep referencing' idea, this shows the whole build is a Netlify static deploy with no model costs. Nothing here changes a production decision, and there is no Malaysia angle in the text.
Discussion angle
Link resolution is the hard part: Wikipedia articles get renamed and redirected over a 2010–2026 window, so how do you canonicalise 544 Jevons-paradox links to one page without double-counting — and does the 'distinct HNers' metric survive that dedup honestly?