About Most Discussed 📖

This website automatically indexes and curates "good" articles from Wikipedia.

It does so by fetching the Hacker News (HN) API and checking against a specific threshold. The idea is that an article is good when it gets posted to and discussed on HN. And it is even better when it is posted more often and/or sparks a great discussion. To get the best out of it this website links back to every worthy discussion, hence the name.

Furthermore, the site structures and categorizes articles by topic. Above each article you'll find those small pink pills and yes, they're clickable. Click here to see all topics listed alphabetically and here to see them sorted by popularity. Those topics are neither copied verbatim from the Wikipedia page, nor are they AI-generated (though they are inspired by WikiProjects). And I may be biased, but I find them far more useful than Wikipedia's official categories. "English poetry in 1751"? Yeah, sure, that's very specific.

For starters, I recommend beginning with the most popular articles and then working through the stack, or browsing the most popular topics. If you are a seasoned reader, consider the New page for newly added articles, or hit the Random button above, which brings some real gems to light.

If you have feedback, want to report a bug, or just say hello, hit me up by e-mail: hi @ thisdomain without the www .com

You can now also follow on Mastodon @MostDiscussed to stay up to date.

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