WikiTimeline – AI-powered tool to visualize and compare timelines
I built WikiTimeline because of my fascination with history and the desire to easily visualize and compare the lives of historical figures. The tool converts any Wikipedia article into an interactive timeline. For example, I created a timeline of America's Founding Fathers and discovered some interesting patterns I hadn't noticed before: Benjamin Franklin was significantly older than the other Founding Fathers. He was already 70 when the Declaration of Independence was signed, while Alexander Hamilton was only 21! John Adams and Thomas Jefferson both died on July 4, 1826 – exactly 50 years…
In plain words
WikiTimeline converts Wikipedia articles into interactive timelines to help users visualize and compare historical figures' lives. The tool is designed for history enthusiasts and learners who want to discover patterns and relationships across time periods. By displaying key dates and events side-by-side, users can spot connections they might otherwise miss, such as age differences or coinciding deaths among historical figures.
written from the facts on this page · September 2026
From the sources
In the maker’s words, at launch
I built WikiTimeline because of my fascination with history and the desire to easily visualize and compare the lives of historical figures. The tool converts any Wikipedia article into an interactive timeline. For example, I created a timeline of America's Founding Fathers and discovered some interesting patterns I hadn't noticed before: Benjamin Franklin was significantly older than the other Founding Fathers. He was already 70 when the Declaration of Independence was signed, while Alexander Hamilton was only 21! John Adams and Thomas Jefferson both died on July 4, 1826 – exactly 50 years after signing the Declaration of Independence. What are the odds? The entire project was built by AI, timelines are generated by openAI, code are written by Cursor/Claude, although myself an developer, I didn't write a single line of code, sometimes I literally just prompted "make it prettier", then magic happens, a modern like UI appears! I think I had this idea in the past, but without AI, I probably won't really implement it. Try it out: https://wiki-timeline.com You can compare any Wikipedia pages. Just search and select multiple articles to create comparative timelines. Would love to hear your feedback and interesting historical patterns you discover!
More ai this month
the category →
I trained a 125M-parameter transformer to autocomplete piano performances in real time (~108 notes/sec on an iPhone 15). The idea is basically GitHub Copilot or Tabnine, except instead of prompting it with code, you prompt it by playing a few notes on a MIDI piano. The model then continues what you played, entirely on-device. The app is free if anyone wants to try it. Happy to answer questions about the model, training, Core ML, or the many things that didn't work.
AI · 17d ago · simedw.com
Astute▲585Automate your B2B brand going viral, with new media creators
AI · 18d ago · company-app.joinastute.com
Hey HN, Henry from Cactus here! We previously released Cactus Needle, a 14MB agentic LLM for tool call, device use, and structured extraction for phones, wearables, smart homes, small robots and microcontrollers. We got really great feedback here, and have now incorporated the suggestions to release Needle 2. The whole model is a single 14MB binary that runs a full session in 28MB of RAM; 45m parameters at 2bit compression. Needle hits 500 tokens/sec decode speed on a Raspberry Pi 5, sits between 400-1,500 tokens/sec on VR devices like Meta Quest 3S and Apple Vision Pro, and ranges…
AI · 26d ago · cactuscompute.com
Launched alongside, January 2025
the whole month →- IM
Hello! I'm Byran. I spent the past ~6 months engineering a laptop from scratch. It's fully open-source on GH at: https://github.com/Hello9999901/laptop
Dev tools · 2025 · byran.ee
- TITetris in a PDF▲1,289
I realized that the PDF engines of modern desktop browsers (PDFium and PDF.js) support JavaScript with enough I/O primitives to make a basic game like Tetris. It was a bit tricky to find a union of features that work in both engines, but in the end it turns out that showing/hiding annotation "fields" works well to make monochrome pixels, and keyboard input can be achieved by typing in a text input box. All in all it's quite janky but a nice reminder of how general purpose PDF scripting can be. The linked PDF is all ASCII so you can just open it in a text editor, or have a look at…
Life & fun · 2025 · th0mas.nl
Create lifelike, personalized AI avatars from text prompts
AI · 2025 · jogg.ai
