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dns-over-wikipedia
Rust2020–2026
aaronjanse / dns-over-wikipedia

dns-over-wikipedia

Redirect `.idk` domains using Wikipedia

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What it is

Redirect `.idk` domains using Wikipedia

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

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HN mentions by year9 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2020-04-06 02:27:16 UTC to 2026-08-24 23:59:14 UTC.

01232020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 1 submissions, 2 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20232024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 2 submissions, 0 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

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20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC312
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC220
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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boramalper·Jul 21, 2024Submission

Show HN: Wikimark – a social bookmarking website powered by Wikidata

Hi all, I wanted to build something small over the weekend so I wrote Wikimark, a social bookmarking website powered by Wikidata. You might remember DNS over Wikipedia[0]: it's a browser extension that uses Wikipedia to find the latest URL of a given website and redirects you there. Wikimark is similar. You give it a name that the website is commonly known as (e.g., "academic-torrents"), and it finds and redirects you to the latest URL of that website. The difference is, you don't need to install anything at all to use Wikimark and it still runs in your browser. Try it: https://academic-torrents.wikimark.net I'll be around to answer your questions! ―Bora Code: https://github.com/boramalper/wikimark --- [0] https://github.com/aaronjanse/dns-over-wikipedia Previous submissions: DNS over Wikipedia - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40008
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383 - Apr 2024 (82 comments) DNS over Wikipedia - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33830759 - Dec 2022 (159 comments) Show HN: DNS over Wikipedia - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22790425 - April 2020 (104 comments) >> 9edda054-232f on Dec 2, 2022: >> Why don't just buy a domain like DNSOver.Wiki so people can just scihub.dnsover.wiki without installing the browser extension.. > aryamaan on Dec 2, 2022: > it's actually a clever idea <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33835716>
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trynewideas·Dec 2, 2022
The comment is context for what inspired the tool. The functionality is about 40 lines of pretty readable Rust: https://github.com/aaronjanse/dns-over-wikipedia/blob/master... 1. Make a Wikipedia search API request for the .idk domain, using the name as the article name. 2. Retrieve the rendered page contents if found. 3. Find the first Wikipedia infobox table on the page. 4. Extract the first "URL" or "Website" entry in that infobox. 5. Return the entry's value, if it's a link. All this runs in a nickel.rs server on 127.0.0.1:80, which routes the requests as permanent redirects to the destination. Using dnsmasq,[1] if it's an .idk domain, it routes the request through the above Wikipedia resolver. 1: https://github.com/aaronjanse/dns-over-wikipedia/tree/master...
In DNS over Wikipedia
aaronjanse·Apr 6, 2020Submission

Show HN: DNS over Wikipedia

Hey HN, I saw a thread a while ago (linked in README) discussing how Wikipedia does a good job keeping track of the domains of websites like Sci-Hub or The Pirate Bay. Someone mentioned checking Wikipedia to find links to these sites, so I thought this would be a fun thing to automate! To try it out, install an extension or modify your hosts file, then type in the name of a website with the TLD `.idk`. For example: scihub.idk -> sci-hub.tw Cheers!
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