Show HN: Wenlan – a living wiki AI keeps current without overwriting your edits
Useful work with AI shouldn't disappear when a conversation ends. Wenlan builds the right pages and keeps them current as sources change, asking only when judgment is needed. English | 简体中文 | 繁體中文 | Español Get started · What is this? · Capabilities · Daily workflow · Evaluation · Learn more wenlan-launch-v18-readme.mp4 A maintained Page in the desktop app: open any citation to inspect the Source or Memory behind the claim.
- ▪Useful work with AI shouldn't disappear when a conversation ends.
- ▪Wenlan builds the right pages and keeps them current as sources change, asking only when judgment is needed.
- ▪English | 简体中文 | 繁體中文 | Español Get started · What is this? · Capabilities · Daily workflow · Evaluation · Learn more wenlan-launch-v18-readme.mp4 A maintained Page in the desktop app: open any citation to inspect the Source or Memory behin
Hacker News (AI / LLM) files mainly under ai. We currently carry 5,188 of its stories.
Story provenance
Source · retrieval · rights · ranking — open for full record
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Story provenance
Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
Record
| Original publisher | GitHub |
| Canonical URL | https://github.com/7xuanlu/wenlan |
| Publication time | Wed, 16 Sep 2026 14:58:30 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-16T15:03:41.367Z |
| Last seen | 2026-09-16T15:03:41.367Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | 5wxuU0m30Ln- · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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Useful work with AI shouldn't disappear when a conversation ends. Wenlan builds the right pages and keeps them current as sources change, asking only when judgment is needed. English | 简体中文 | 繁體中文 | Español Get started · What is this? · Capabilities · Daily workflow · Evaluation · Learn more wenlan-launch-v18-readme.mp4 A maintained Page in the desktop app: open any citation to inspect the Source or Memory behind the claim. Get started Wenlan runs as one local daemon. The desktop app carries that daemon inside it; the headless install gives you the same daemon without a window. Your AI clients reach the same knowledge base either way. Desktop app Download from the Releases page: macOS (Apple Silicon): open the .dmg and drag Wenlan to Applications.
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at GitHub.