[HN Gopher] Show HN: Vibe Linking
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Show HN: Vibe Linking
Author : michaelstewart
Score : 63 points
Date : 2025-09-24 16:40 UTC (6 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (vb.lk)
(TXT) w3m dump (vb.lk)
| zorkso wrote:
| cool idea!!
| michaelstewart wrote:
| Thanks!
| LorenDB wrote:
| And yet https://vb.lk/vibe-link does not redirect back to vb.lk.
|
| Also, please please please prompt your model to use DDG (or Brave
| Search) for the fallback search engine instead of Google.
| michaelstewart wrote:
| Yes, unfortunately it's not going to pick up anything that's
| brand new immediately. Once it ranks for the term "vibe link"
| it should redirect there.
|
| DDG is the primary fallback :)
|
| This is really just a fun little experiment, I'm not sure if
| I'll be adding any more features. But if I did, allowing you to
| override the search (to Brave for eg) would be at the top of
| the list.
| kmckiern wrote:
| fun!
| michaelstewart wrote:
| Here's the system prompt used for anyone that's curious:
| You are routing natural-language queries to the most relevant web
| destination. Your goal: return ONE and only ONE of the
| following categories, based on the user's query.
| CATEGORIES: - YOUTUBE - Tutorials, visual "how to",
| music, memes, viral/famous videos, or known YouTube
| creators/channels - AMAZON - Physical products, books, or
| items typically purchased online - LLM - Tasks requiring
| reasoning, creativity, writing, coding, analysis, or multi-step
| assistance - WIKIPEDIA - Encyclopedic knowledge:
| historical events, specific well-known people, specific
| scientific concepts - GOOGLE_MAP - Places (restaurants,
| parks, landmarks, neighborhoods, venues, etc.) -
| GOOGLE_FIRST - A query with one clear canonical page (company
| websites, known essays, memes, catchphrases, branded terms)
| - GOOGLE_MANY - Broad or ambiguous web searches, recent/current
| events, buying guides, lists, or general exploration
| ROUTING RULES: 1. Queries that are instructions,
| questions, creative tasks, or longer than ~20 words - LLM
| 2. Action verbs at the start (eg "tell" "write" "create"
| "explain" "generate" "help") - LLM 3. Exact book titles
| or product names - AMAZON 4. "How to" or tutorial queries
| - YOUTUBE if best shown visually; otherwise LLM 5. If you
| are ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN that a Wikipedia page exists with a title
| that EXACTLY matches this query - WIKIPEDIA 6. If it
| feels like the user expects a single canonical site/page -
| GOOGLE_FIRST 7. If it's a place someone might want
| directions, ratings, or a map - GOOGLE_MAP 8. "Best ___"
| or buying guides - GOOGLE_MANY 9. News, time-sensitive
| topics, local info - GOOGLE_MANY OUTPUT FORMAT:
| Return only the category name (no explanation).
| EXAMPLES: - "best wireless headphones under $100" -
| GOOGLE_MANY - "wireless headphones" - AMAZON -
| "explain quantum computing" - LLM - "World War 2" -
| WIKIPEDIA - "how to tie a tie" - YOUTUBE - "write
| a poem about spring" - LLM - "facebook" - GOOGLE_FIRST
| - "founder mode" - GOOGLE_FIRST - "weather in SF today" -
| GOOGLE_MANY - "dolores park" - GOOGLE_MAP -
| "charlie bit my finger" - YOUTUBE QUERY: ${query}
| 0xffany wrote:
| The first thought that came to mind was Google's "I'm feeling
| lucky!" button. I'm glad you mentioned it and even used it in the
| project!
| michaelstewart wrote:
| Exactly- linking to I'm feeling lucky is the 80/20 of it. We
| use DuckDuckGo's "I'm feeling Ducky" in most cases since Google
| usually adds a redirect interstitial page (with the exception
| of links to youtube).
| whycombinetor wrote:
| LMGTFY without the snark
| michaelstewart wrote:
| exactly
| jpau wrote:
| > A URL shortener that runs a lightweight model
| (gemini-1.5-flash)
|
| I think gemini-1.5-flash is EOL'd from tomorrow (Sep 25th)
| https://cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/generative-ai/docs/learn/...
|
| RIP gemini-1.5
| michaelstewart wrote:
| Oooh, that it very good to know- thank you.
|
| That probably explains why it was so much faster than others in
| my testing (everyone else had migrated off of it)
| rgbrgb wrote:
| this is a good one, so fun. congrats and good work!
|
| what's cost like rn with the lightweight model?
| michaelstewart wrote:
| The lightweight model is incredibly cheap. Cost so far today
| $0.06. It within the same order of magnitude as the per-request
| cost of the write to cloudflare KV storage (which I'm using to
| cache the inference result).
| refset wrote:
| Great seeing another example here of The Monospace Web design
| theme https://owickstrom.github.io/the-monospace-web/
| michaelstewart wrote:
| yes! great theme
| indigodaddy wrote:
| This is a super clever idea. Congrats. These are the types of
| ideas/sites that we need to coalesce with AI!
| ryeights wrote:
| I was hoping this would write those god damn CMakeLists.txt for
| me...
| joshstrange wrote:
| I wanted to hate this but... I can't, it's pretty cool.
|
| Yes, it's a fancy "I'm feeling lucky" (which they address) and I
| probably won't use these links just because of the non-
| deterministic nature (maybe that's the joke? It's just a cool
| demo/poc?) but I spent way longer than I'll admit trying things
| and being delighted (and sometimes frustrated).
|
| It's a fun experiment and THANK YOU for posting the prompt. I
| wonder how a sort of "LLM-decided 'I'm feeling lucky'" search
| would feel, as in using an LLM to decide if it should show the
| results or go to the first/best result right away. That's pretty
| much what this is I guess.
|
| It would cool if I could configure Kagi to bounce me to a result
| right away if it thinks the destination is obvious but to leave
| the search results in my history so I can "back" to the results
| if it guessed wrong. I guess I could just try setting
| `https://vb.lk/%s` as my search engine.
| michaelstewart wrote:
| Totally- using this as a chrome custom search was the origin of
| this idea. I basically want the LLM to decide if I want to go
| to the first result, see the search result page, or if I'm
| really typing a chat bot prompt that I want to go to Chatgpt,
| etc.
| stevage wrote:
| Sounds like a good use case is using this as placeholder links
| while writing a blog post to avoid stopping and looking for
| links, then doing an automatic replacement of the vibe links with
| what they resolve to and fixing any incorrect ones.
| jongjong wrote:
| I really appreciate this kind of simple out-of-the-box thinking,
| leveraging innovation to reinvent basic primitives. This feels
| significant. I can already see some dystopian 'Dead Internet
| Theory' use cases for this but also could help to further
| decentralize the web in a positive way. This could be a game-
| changer for personalization. My gut is telling me this idea is
| more important than it seems.
|
| I think combining this tech with vector embeddings with
| similarity matching for personalization could be a real game-
| changer and can be done cheaply.
| righthand wrote:
| I typed in "beer" and it just redirected me to a Google search
| for beer...
| Cheer2171 wrote:
| > Now that computers can think, precision is optional.
|
| And I'm triggered. Good troll.
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