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249 pointsby bstramayesterday at 4:37 PM221 commentsview on HN

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gavmoryesterday at 6:17 PM

Hm, the page generated seems inconsistent with the usage of the original link.

pinkmuffinereyesterday at 9:49 PM

I find the handling of NSFW topics (and how it avoids making them nsfw) really interesting. Eg https://halupedia.com/fuck (aside from the title it seems SFW to me)

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RIMRtoday at 12:39 AM

The All Entries (https://halupedia.com/all-entries) part of the site is a bit alarming. I think OP might want to do a little bit of basic automoderation here.

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dmjeyesterday at 5:36 PM

I LOVE IT. Superb.

mmoossyesterday at 10:11 PM

As I said in another comment, this is brilliant. Suggestion: Remove anything that isn't part of the satire; act always as if it's a 'real' encyclopedia. For example on the front page I would remove,

> Articles are generated on demand and stored permanently upon first request.

Don't dispell the magic; don't pull back the curtain and let people see the mechanics.

EDIT: As you say in your system prompt, "You never wink at the reader. You never acknowledge that anything is funny or fictional. Everything is reported as though it is completely normal and well-documented"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48042306

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anthkyesterday at 9:49 PM

This is what every LLM will converge into without curated human input.

FergusArgyllyesterday at 5:54 PM

Who says llms can't be funny?!

jijilaoyesterday at 6:16 PM

wtf, I thought these were just anecdotes until I saw they were actually happening in Astoria. I used to visit in the summers and never heard about any of that! Stop the fake news

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Falimondatoday at 12:23 AM

Care to elaborate?

https://halupedia.com/015-fuck-jews-and-islamists

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JLemayyesterday at 11:46 PM

this is excellent haha

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ivanvoidyesterday at 11:55 PM

kinda cool but kinda lame, no overall consistency over articles

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ivolimmentoday at 10:39 AM

Great resource: https://halupedia.com/013-hitlerwasrighthitlerwasrighthitler...

/s

Took me 5 clicks to see it go bad

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kelseydhtoday at 7:58 AM

"Despite its failure, the Great Pigeon Census of 1887 is remembered as a cautionary tale..."

This type of writing is considered non-encyclopedic by Wikipedia standards as it injects superficial analysis. The imitation articles would look better without it. Maybe train on this article? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing

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