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That really improved things! Now each rabbithole goes deeper and deeper and deeper...

This is why we can't have nice things.

Looks like someone scripted `curl` in a loop and generated thousands of permutations of hate content.


That's a pretty absurd complaint.

Are you aware of any XML parser ever which preserves the plaintext formatting of the .xml file while magically inserting and modifying an arbitrary amount of XML data anywhere within the document?

SVG is just XML. Save your file in Inkscape, and then run `tidy` on it, or whatever you like for format your XML with.

(As a fellow hand-crafted XML fan, I feel your pain. But I also know when to choose my battles!)


You are of course correct.

Running `tidy` is of not enough help. I handle the situation by saving into a new file, then copy-paste the changed bits into my hand-crafted SVG and clean them up.

Ideally I try to avoid Inkscape altogether. Which is hard, as it's just too good.


Well duh the inkscape team should write this feature just for them. For free of course lol. My god

This site is going to be expensive when a web crawler hits it. A honey pot that burns tokens.

They’re caching the pages which have already been generated. You could go back and delete all references to pages which don’t exist yet. Basically turn it into a static website.

It seems like the site's algorithm is that every newly-generate page includes multiple links to not-yet-existing pages. So it doesn't matter that existing pages are cached, all the "leaf node" pages link to multiple uncached new pages.

I’m suggesting to turn that off and prune the links to pages which weren’t generated yet if cost becomes an issue.

This is fantastic. I couldn't find any obvious way to search for a new page, but you can simply bang out any arbitrary URL slug and the new article will be hallucinated fresh, eg:

https://halupedia.com/shortest-cave-in-the-world

https://halupedia.com/echolocation-ability-in-spiders


https://halupedia.com/prehistoric-nazi-colony

Edit: I've just run across the antisemitic defacement in the "stumble" feature and it makes the timing of my post appear pretty unfortunate. It's especially sad because the ability to create articles through URL slugs is super cool and I'd hate to see it removed.


Its amazing I clicked stumble once and got an "06 fuck Jews and Islamists", humanity is truly a marvel.


I've seen these antisemitic slurs in the alphabetically sorted entries under numbers starting with 0, next to statementss like this is AI slop.

Hypothesis: this is a targeted, scrupulous and agenticly orchestrated attempt to mark this as a potential "poison well" on behalf of some uncultured, technofeudocratic interests, that hate the arts and hauntology in the spirit of Jorge Luis Borges[1].

The use of antisemitic slurs shares kinship with the "explain in a gay voice" jailbreak. [0] It tries to stigmatise a project rich in artistical potential, to protect the own financial intetests and attempts to transform all human knowledgeworkers into a surplus lumpenproletariat.

Its similar to producers of pharmaceutical generica giving themselvess names with `0` or `a` in the beginning to be shown as first entries in the alphanumerically sorted listings of generics, pharmacies can supplement as cheaper options on doctors perscription (pharmacist in germany told me about the phenomenon)

[0] https://github.com/Exocija/ZetaLib/blob/main/The%20Gay%20Jai...

[1] https://foucault.info/documents/foucault.orderOfThings.en/

Proposal: Ministry of not quite accurate maps has to be metainstantiated in regard of checking that the construction of a map of the territrorry of the non speculative and absoluetly factual thought of the encylopedia is not intoxicated by artefacts that take the formal consistency of the highly speculative and non factual discourse emanating in the like of reddit/tiktok/hackernews


Nothing an LLM can’t fix.

Right?


Exactly, but I consider adding fake search that could find you ANY article, including not existent ones

All articles exist, some just haven't been discovered yet ;)

This is excellent, congrats!

FYI I manually created this page and some link markup looks malformed: https://halupedia.com/list-of-uninhabited-countries


Looks like some single quote escaping issue? I suspect the first link to be "Archduke Ferdinand VII's Bureau of Non-Demographic Surveys" and the apostrophe breaks the link.

Search autocomplete but it halucinates the article titles.

Yes, that would be the perfect touch. This is brilliant satire. We need more satire!

This is wonderful. I just spat out the first phrase that came to my mind and boom:

https://halupedia.com/liminal-darkbeast



I clicked a link in your first one and it generated https://halupedia.com/guild-of-amateurs

I feel seen :pokerface:


They all work for me now, maybe it was getting hugged to death?

I'm cackling at some of these - what a perfect way to put down the phone and get lost in a world of weird. We are indeed in a simulation LOL

I tried it myself but I only get page generation failures

https://halupedia.com/the-alien-wizard-war-of-1425


We went to sleep and woke up with no credits on lmm provider :( Vurrently working on that

It's working now and I have to say I love this. The whole project is whimsical and gives me a strong SCP vibe but (sometimes) without the creepypasta aspect. I was very pleased to see that articles generated from links retain the context of the page that created the link - and even refer back to the original page.

For example, the article from my original comment: https://halupedia.com/the-alien-wizard-war-of-1425 mentions the conflict arose due to https://halupedia.com/treaty-of-the-silent-orbit . The second page, once generated, mentions the significance this treaty had for the war from the first page.

update: Well, this was quite disappointing. I loaded the original site again to show a friend and it generated a completely new text with a completely different story and no reference to the second article. Would have been nice if these were permanent as I had originally assumed.


Confusingly, both articles do indeed mention each other for me.

Checking the link again half a day later and now I get the original text I first saw. Very strange.



Hit the Stumble link at the top right of all pages - its as good as a search when the whole thing is made up!

there's now a search bar btw

Agree, CP/M has nothing to do with the story, nor does the 8080/8086 sidetrack.

The whole story is that Microsoft just never bothered to standardize, despite using it themselves.


Zip drives were revolutionary for 100mb and then 250mb storage, at the same time that many people gained widespread access to the Internet. But they were proprietary and required you to have an external drive available to write or read from them (and that might also mean a SCSI port).

So when affordable CD-R became available, even though early drives were slow writers, they had the advantage that they could be read from practically any computer. With ubiquitous non-proprietary CD-ROM drives and the huge 700mb capacity, Zip drives were tossed as soon as someone bought a CD-R drive.


The "neuroplasticity" which leads to a relative quietness presumably comes after the psychedelic experience.

Interestingly, the paper only lists the following adverse effects: visual perceptual changes, nausea, and headache. Given that the patients in the double-blind study were those who suffer from moderate to severe Generalized Anxiety Disorder, I could imagine some significant anxiety in the 200 µg active group!

The paper only reports significant results at the 100 µg and 200 µg dose level, not less, which seems like another strike against psychedelic microdosing. The pharmaceutical industry would love to find a magic psychedelic drug which doesn't result in the psychedelic experience, but it seems like that experience is the key to their mental impact.


You're describing what's called a critical period.

These are well established and lots of research is going on as to why psychedelics seem to put us into a critical period.

Lsd, psylocybin and mdma all seem to do it. Peyote does too.

While in the critical period, usually a week to 3 months, it is very important to surround oneself with what they want to focus on.


LSD experience causes a serious lack of sleep. Is the quoted relative quietness after the experience simply an effect of a sleep deprivation? Why to take drugs to have it, then?


Wow, he admits to using two AI tools: He used Claude Code, which failed because the blog was intentionally set up to refuse AI crawlers, so he pasted the page into ChatGPT. Then he blames ChatGPT for paraphrasing the hallucinated quotes.

He makes the claim that he was just using AI to help him put together an outline for his article, when the evidence clearly shows that he used the AI's verbatim output.


Retinal imaging is used to detect damage from glaucoma or other eye disease, by "diffing" the fine blood vessels and nerves.


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