[HN Gopher] Show HN: I built a LLM-powered Ask HN: like Perplexi...
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Show HN: I built a LLM-powered Ask HN: like Perplexity, but for HN
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Hi HN! I'm Jonathan and I built Ask Hacker Search
(https://hackersearch.net/ask), an LLM-powered version of Hacker
News' Ask HN. Unlike Ask HN, Ask Hacker Search doesn't solicit new
contributions from HN readers. Instead, it leverages Hacker News'
historical data to answer questions, and offers LLM-generated
summaries of those. I've used it for questions like "Should I use
Drizzle or Prisma?" or "What is a good screen capture that allows
easy zooming effects on Mac?". It is particularly useful when
you're interested in understanding HN readers' sentiment about a
topic, or when looking for expert insights on topics of interest to
HN readers. I've been using it continually while building it, and
have found it particularly useful to find software libraries
recommended by HN or get quick vibe checks on hot topics. This
builds on my release of Hacker Search two weeks ago
(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40238509), which offered a
semantic search engine over top HN submissions. It's not just a
small upgrade: covering comments was the #1 requested feature after
that launch, so I rebuilt the near entirety of the product to
support that. Please try it out and let me know what you think of
it! I have to limit the number of LLM summaries each person can get
for free, as this is entirely self-funded. If you hit the limit,
you can subscribe for more summaries generated by a better model
($8/month), or bring your own compute by running inference on
Ollama on your machine!
Author : jnnnthnn
Score : 26 points
Date : 2024-05-16 17:11 UTC (5 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (hackersearch.net)
(TXT) w3m dump (hackersearch.net)
| coloneltcb wrote:
| This is very cool. I wouldn't make buying decisions off of this,
| but it is a good starting point to get a pulse on the developer
| zeitgeist on any given topic.
| jnnnthnn wrote:
| Thank you for trying it out!
| joshi4 wrote:
| I think you hit the nail on the head when you say, "get a pulse
| on the developer zeitgeist on a particular topic." I really
| enjoyed using it to get a sense of what developers feel about a
| particular topic. I also learned about new products I wasn't
| aware of.
| jnnnthnn wrote:
| Yay! Thank you for trying it out, so glad it's been useful!
| spikey_sanju wrote:
| Well done! I was also working on something similar and created a
| POC, but this is super nice.
| jnnnthnn wrote:
| Thank you! And... got a link to share? :)
| jnnnthnn wrote:
| I got some feedback that GPT-3.5 was letting people down so
| improved my caching strategy and defaulted everything to GPT-4o!
| lpetting wrote:
| this is cool; i like that you used it continuously while building
| it/ built it for your own needs. are there any kinds of searches
| it does particularly well at? any fun hot takes come up in your
| summarizers?
| jnnnthnn wrote:
| I feel that it performs really well on queries like those on
| the landing page, that generally have to do with understanding
| HN's sentiment about something or finding resources to learn
| about a topic.
|
| As to your second question, someone looked up "What are some
| famous Google office pranks?" (https://hackersearch.net/ask?q=W
| hat%20are%20some%20famous%20...?) earlier today and I found
| some gold in there. Some of the hot takes on Gary Marcus have
| cracked me up too (https://hackersearch.net/ask?q=what%20do%20y
| ou%20think%20of%...?).
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