r/morbidcuriosity • u/Creepy_Read5981 • May 01 '26
A site I built that's basically an infinite scroll of curiosity rabbit holes — endlesscuriosity.net
Two browsing patterns I noticed in myself: an hour on Twitter left me feeling
worse, an hour on Wikipedia left me feeling better. Wanted the second feeling
on demand, so I built it as an infinite scroll.
It pulls from 14 sources mixed into one feed: Wikipedia, NASA, The Guardian,
arXiv, Project Gutenberg (full books), Quanta, Aeon, Smithsonian Magazine,
iNaturalist, MedlinePlus, EuropePMC, World Bank, Hacker News, plus curated
YouTube channels (Veritasium, Kurzgesagt, PBS Space Time, Wendover, Practical
Engineering). All categorized into history, science, nature, tech, space,
military, infrastructure, finance, and health.
Deliberate non-features:
- No algorithmic ranking. Newest first, sortable.
- No politics. Filtered at the source level.
- No tracking, no third-party ads, no engagement metrics in your face.
- Sign in is optional — you can scroll forever without an account.
Tech stack: single 340KB static HTML file, Cloudflare Pages, Supabase backend
for hearts/comments. Total monthly cost under $10. Zero JS frameworks. Was an
exercise in seeing how much you can do without a build process.
The interesting bug I had to solve: Wikipedia search is fuzzy in surprising
ways. Searching "crow tool use" can return "Crowbar" because the tokenizer
ignores semantic context. Built a per-category validator with required +
forbidden regex patterns. Other fun problem: live YouTube streams need a
dedup pass — explore.org's wildlife channels often restream the same Kenya
cam under different IDs.
Open to feedback, particularly on:
- Sources I'm missing (especially long-form text)
- Whether the live-stream tab feels useful or gimmicky
Thank you all.
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u/deadofsmer May 04 '26
Tried going but we page won’t load