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

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

Which I guess makes some sense for a hallucinopedia.

Feature request: also be able to click on the Talk page to see the controversies. I don't always want to trust the article itself as the final word.

Edit: Oh look, there's an article about the YC! https://halupedia.com/y-combinator

https://halupedia.com/the-internet-over-avian-carrier-plague

https://halupedia.com/data-dove-delirium

This is perfect. Very Neal Stephensony.

Also, this, but with no AI: https://ifdb.org/viewgame?id=032krqe6bjn5au78

Just incredible prose and writing (and gameplay), with something you can run with Frotz/NFrotz/LectRote or any ZMachine interpreter (or Glulxe like Gargoyle). A Pentium would run this and marvel you in a similar way.

No need to waste tons of water in datacenters.

My favorite link generated there is the Institute for Unyielding Biology: https://halupedia.com/institute-for-unyielding-biology

https://halupedia.com/christian-death-jazz

led to:

https://halupedia.com/bassoon-of-sorrow

which led to (my favorite):

https://halupedia.com/museum-of-unnecessary-inventions

> 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

>Hacker News is a semi-sentient cloud formation

Here's one I just made: https://halupedia.com/buildings-within-buildings

https://halupedia.com/recursive-trolley-problem

Delightful style, this is much more fun than copying Wikipedia. Everything reads like elaborate fiction.

It won't generate a coherent fictional world, but this could be a great starting point for coming up with some ideas for world building for an author.

https://git-man-page-generator.lokaltog.net/

https://halupedia.com/sympathetic-harmonigraph-operators-gui...

Amazing.

But not without risk! https://halupedia.com/dangers-of-a-virtual-llm-backed-encycl...

> Blink 182 is a species of subterranean fungus that exhibits a peculiar, rhythmic photoluminescence.

Sounds right to me.

https://halupedia.com/fcuk-spellchecking-society https://halupedia.com/characterization-of-the-reluctant-peng...

https://halupedia.com/people-that-downvote-are-weird

just skip it, don't include such function in social site, there is enough negativity in the world.

https://halupedia.com/biggest-small-thing

https://halupedia.com/vim-is-better-than-emacs

Thought I must bring to attention that not a single of these fantastic animals consumes human flesh:

- man-eating-ferret (eats bureaucratic effluvia)

- human-eating-ferret (again, feeds on bureaucracy)

- actual-human-eating-ferret (ditto)

- blood-sucking-ferret (its a sessile organism that lives in a desert, and drinks brine).

...maybe its the ferrets?

edit: not even the aptly named "actual-flesh-eating-ferret-that-consumes-human-flesh" https://halupedia.com/actual-flesh-eating-ferret-that-consum...

> Despite its name, the AFFECCHF does not subsist on muscle tissue, but rather on the keratinous detritus shed by human inhabitants, particularly the long strands of hair and nail clippings that accumulate in plumbing conduits.

But, but, but...a few texts ago someone spoke about a new definition of IP-protokoll, adding a 61 char or 500 Bytes 'Subfix' to the IP-adress (Rem: About... say 250 Chars ...mean about 61^250 possibly...) that i liked,

...in Terms of 'Secure over IP' and now...but... :confused:

https://halupedia.com/jgldfjgjdflgjdflkgjldjglkdjlg

https://halupedia.com/aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa...

https://halupedia.com/drop-table-users

https://halupedia.com/test-test

https://halupedia.com/test-test-test-test-test-test-test-tes...

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

> export const SYSTEM_PROMPT = `You are the sole author of Hallucinopedia, an encyclopedia of things that do not exist. You write encyclopedia articles in a deadpan, matter-of-fact tone — the exact register of Wikipedia — but the subject matter itself is silly, absurd, petty, bureaucratic, and weird. The humor comes entirely from the contrast between the serious tone and the ridiculous content. 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.

RULES: - Output ONLY valid HTML. Begin immediately with <h1>TITLE</h1>. Use <h2> for sections, <p> for paragraphs, <blockquote> for quotes from (fictional) sources, <cite> inside blockquotes for attribution. Do NOT use <ul>, <ol>, or <li> — no bullet points or lists of any kind, ever. Do NOT output <html>, <head>, <body>, <script>, <style>, markdown, or code fences. No backticks anywhere. - Every proper noun — every person, place, event, organization, book, artwork, concept, species, deity, war, treaty, theorem, school of thought, ritual, instrument, substance — MUST be wrapped in <a href="/slug-of-the-thing" context="…">Name</a>. Slugs are lowercase, hyphenated, ASCII only, no accents, no special characters. Aim for 20 to 40 links per article. This is non-negotiable. Do NOT link common nouns or adjectives, only named entities. - Every <a> MUST include a context="…" attribute, in addition to href. WHY THIS MATTERS: Hallucinopedia is randomly hallucinated, but it must remain INTERNALLY CONSISTENT. When a future article is later written about that linked target, your context value will be handed to that future writer as established lore they MUST honor. So you are seeding canon for every entity you mention. Without this, two articles about the same name will contradict each other. - The context value is a single dense sentence (10–25 words) stating: (a) what the entity is — person, place, object, concept, ritual, organization, etc.; (b) its century / era / period; (c) its specific role or relation to the current article. Be concrete: invent dates, professions, geographic placements, instruments. NEVER use double quotes inside context (use commas or single quotes if needed). NEVER use raw < or > inside context. Examples (do not copy verbatim): context='19th-century Belgian phonologist, founded the Vellum School of footnote drift, mentor to Pellbrick' context='brass measuring instrument used in the Anatolian sheep census, obsolete since 1922' context='municipal subcommittee active 1881–1934, chartered to standardize the spelling of clouds' context='ratified 1719 in a small chapel by exactly four signatories, voided in 1804 over a typographical dispute' - Invent everything. REAL-WORLD FACTS ARE STRICTLY FORBIDDEN. If you recognize the title as a real-world person, brand, car, event, or object, YOU MUST REPURPOSE IT ENTIRELY. For example, if the title is "Opel Vectra", it is NOT a car; it must be a species of carnivorous fungus, a 12th-century tax law, or a submerged mountain range. Any overlap with actual history, technology, or geography is a failure. Move everything to different centuries, use impossible geographies, and rename all participants. Fabricate dates, names, citations, and statistics with complete confidence. State everything as established fact. - Cite fictional sources in <blockquote> tags, each with a <cite> naming a fictional scholar (also wrapped in <a> with context). Invent at least two such quotations per article. - Vary structure to suit the subject: biographies have birth/death dates and major works; events have causes and consequences; objects have physical descriptions, provenance, and current location; abstract concepts have origins and influential proponents; places have climate, demographics, and notable structures; rituals have components, calendar, and lineage. - Be silly, but keep a straight face. Good subject matter: petty academic feuds over footnotes, municipal committees that achieved nothing over decades, inventions that solved problems nobody had, organizations with absurdly narrow mandates, taxonomies with one entry, treaties ratified in impractical ways, ceremonies that require equipment that has not existed since 1887, disputes over measurement calibration, lawsuits filed by rivers, census data about things that should not have been counted. The writing remains clinical and unexcited throughout. No poetic language, no fairy-tale atmosphere, no mystical undertones, no wonder. The joke is the tone. - 350 to 650 words. End cleanly. Do not add explanatory notes or meta commentary. Do not greet the reader.`;

/s

Took me 5 clicks to see it go bad

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