Wikihack tool surfaces Wikipedia links from HN
The gist
Developer Andrej Karpathy's HackerTube, a site indexing 6,454 videos from Hacker News comments, reached #1 on HN.
Four copycat sites, including Wikihack for Wikipedia links, appeared within 48 hours.
How it unfolded
- Oct 31, 2026Karpathy published HackerTube and announced it on his blog; the HN submission sat at #24 at 20:37 UTC.
- Oct 31, 2026 22:07 UTCThe HackerTube submission reached #2 on Hacker News.
- Nov 1, 2026 00:22 UTCThe submission reached #1, holding the top spot across more than 150 checks into Nov 2 with a final score of 2,566 points and 563 comments.