Useless Fact

“Discover Facts You’ll Never Need”

Started as simple toy project to test new tech stack, ended up become test bed for trying out new things.

As the name suggested, It’s useless.

Core Functionality

• Random Facts: Generate and rate useless facts with persistent voting
• Real-Time News Facts: AI-powered facts generated from latest news articles
• Smart Topic Selection: Choose from trending topics extracted via NER and TF-IDF
• Interactive Infographics: Data-driven visualizations (burger flipping science)
• Blog System: Simple markdown-based blog for updates

AI & Machine Learning

• Named Entity Recognition (NER): Extract topics from news using Google Gemini 2.0
• TF-IDF Scoring: Rank topic relevance and importance
• Intelligent Matching: Match user-selected topics with relevant articles
• Streaming AI Generation: Real-time fact generation with progress indicators