Show HN: Rabbit Holes

[amanmathur]

Built a way to spatially explore wikipedia topics!

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.

Spacebar to expand a topic inline, arrow keys to move around, and "J" to open journey view!

[dimal]

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-adamante]

I like the concept! I don't like the wall of text. It's hard to concentrate / parse what's in the text box. Keep working on it, it has potential.

[amanmathur]

can present the text in a more readable way, thanks for the feedback!

[vintagedave]

Great idea. Your site may have been hugged to death, but if it'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.

I second another commenter's idea of a minimap: let's visually build the rabbit warren! Just like this:

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Rabbit-warren-with-entra...

[thomascountz]

This is a cool idea and is fun to explore. It would be cool to be able to revisit a page/topic via the journey view. (Perhaps you can, but I'm unable to on Firefox iOS). I think it'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!

[amanmathur]

thanks!

[robbles]

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 "desktop site" in Chrome and saw the left/right buttons. Having only a linear track of topics kind of undermines the overall idea!

[amanmathur]

yeah was originally a way to keep mobile more constrained and usable -- but definitely isn't as fun. Will add 4 directions back in on mobile :)

[bhargav]

Love this concept but I wish it did not pick topics that were so "distant" from the current topic.

Initial topic: Pizza Recommended nodes: Pizzerias, Italian cuisine, Woodfired Ovens, Neapolitan Pizzas

At L1, I'd expect more of the last, such as type of pizza.

[cobertos]

So is down "deeper" 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't different in any way)?

[amanmathur]

right now they're all random topics, but thinking about adding meaning to the directions in next iteration

[piyushtechsavy]

Cool idea, however I feel the linked topics are pretty narrow and may not be very related. It could be more like a map.

[rickcarlino]

Would be fun if it had a language selector.

[samstave]

"All wikipedia entries lead to philosophy:

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=wikipedia+always+leads+to+p...

https://old.reddit.com/r/philosophy/comments/iqatv/wikipedia...

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Did any of this come up for you when you built this?

Is this a rabbit hole

https://i.imgur.com/PDjVH2J.png

But the UI is neat -- but it REALLY needs a minimap in the corner that will give me the path of my Rabbit's Warren.

https://i.imgur.com/E0WpuQU.png

Also navigate by WSAD like Bards Tale - and walk through the concept map with keyboard.