LLM Wiki
Hacker ApprovedThe most recommended of 3 AI knowledge bases
Open-source Markdown and Git wiki that agents compile from raw sources, keeping sources separate from generated pages. Critics say it duplicates coding assistants and loses appeal after novelty.
Open-source Markdown and Git wiki that agents compile from raw sources, keeping sources separate from generated pages. Critics say it duplicates coding assistants and loses appeal after novelty.
25 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 20
- criticize it
- 5
- approval share
- 80%
Recommended in 6 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it carries the badge
- 20 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 4 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 6 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Works well in daily use
“His LLM-wiki framework has been very useful for me for some personal research and knowledge-building projects”
Comment from 20 May 2026 in “I’ve joined Anthropic” “I keep going back to LLM Wiki. It has found itself in so many other skills because of its fundamental value.”
Comment from 6 Oct 2026 in “Open Source as We Know It Is Dead” “downgraded the model to mere tool usage and summarization, and it works great.”
Comment from 3 Aug 2026 in “Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork” - Comment from 11 Jun 2026 in “Show HN: A better LLM-wiki with multi-path research [550 stars]”
- Comment from 21 Sep 2026 in “Show HN: Lossless-memory – a personal AI memory that never summarizes”
- Comment from 18 Jun 2026 in “Show HN: 10x better performance from the Coding Harnesses with LLM-wiki”
Fun, slick design and ideas
“OP has gone deeper than my ADHD thoughts could have possibly gone.”
Comment from 5 Apr 2026 in “LLM Wiki” “srsly tho this looks slick & love the office refs”
Comment from 25 Apr 2026 in “Show HN: A Karpathy-style LLM wiki your agents maintain (Markdown and Git)” “love the „the office“ vibe”
Comment from 25 Apr 2026 in “Show HN: A Karpathy-style LLM wiki your agents maintain (Markdown and Git)” - Comment from 5 Apr 2026 in “LLM Wiki”
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See all 3 AI knowledge bases, rankedWhat people said
23 of the 25 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“I keep going back to LLM Wiki. It has found itself in so many other skills because of its fundamental value.”
“It's pretty powerful and works well.”
“downgraded the model to mere tool usage and summarization, and it works great.”
“So far no issue with that.”
“this looks useful without the coding harness pitch”
“Use https://github.com/ndjordjevic/pin-llm-wiki as scaffolding”
“I did to endorse llm-wiki, I use it a lot.”
“His LLM-wiki framework has been very useful for me for some personal research and knowledge-building projects”
“LLM Wiki doesn't seem to work for agents”
“makes the entire setup installable from the marketplace instead of copy-pasting bootstrap prompts and skills”
“turned out to be right interface for making context infra usable”
“in its current state it's actually more useful for someone to learn about how to run a business”
“love the „the office“ vibe”
“srsly tho this looks slick & love the office refs”
“more fun to build than to actually use, and you don't end up using it outside of the initial novelty”
“No more limitations when it comes to adding more data with this compiler, looks really interesting”
“splitting into chapter-level files and recompiling changed the output categorically”
“I put together a free Open-Source implementation of Karpathy's LLM Wiki over the weekend.”
“i like the separation between raw sources and the generated wiki, makes it easier to trust what's going on”
“merely results in 2nd-order information that will only muddy the picture”
“this llm-wiki idea is fun”
“This just tries to reinvent the wheel that all mainstream coding assistants have been providing for over a year.”
“OP has gone deeper than my ADHD thoughts could have possibly gone.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.