Hacker Search is no longer available.
Hacker Search was a tool for understanding HN readers' sentiment and
looking for expert insights on topics of interest to HN readers.
@jnnnthnn built it in 2024
when it was still unclear how to get LLMs to do this job well.
Fast forward to today, any free chatbot on the internet can do this
well! Yet all endeavors, Hacker Search included, require maintenance.
The fact that Hacker Search is no longer unique makes that maintenance
no longer worth it. It's time to say goodbye.
Curious what I'm building nowadays? Check out
Avec.
Thank you so much for your support!
Jonathan Unikowski
([email protected])
How it worked:
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"text": "Hi HN!<p>I'm Jonathan and I built Hacker Search (<a href=\"https://hackersearch.net\" rel=\"nofollow\">https://hackersearch.net</a>), a semantic search engine for Hacker News. Type a keyword or a description of what you're interested in, and you'll get top links from HN surfaced to you along with brief summaries.<p>Unlike HN's otherwise very valuable search feature, Hacker Search doesn't require you to get your keywords exactly right. That's achieved by leveraging OpenAI's latest embedding models alongside more traditional indexes extracted from the scraped and cleaned up contents of the links.<p>I think there are many more interesting things one could build atop the HN dataset in the age of LLMs (e.g. more explicitly searching for technical opinions, recommending stories to you based on your interests, and making the core search feature more useful). If any of those sound interesting to you, head over to <a href=\"https://hackersearch.net/signup\" rel=\"nofollow\">https://hackersearch.net/signup</a> to get notified when I launch them!<p>Note: at least one person has built something similar before (<a href=\"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36391655\">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36391655</a>). Funnily enough, I only found out about this through my own implementation, and I based on my testing, I think Hacker Search generally performs better when doing keyword/sentence searches (vs. whole document similarity lookup), thanks to the way the data is indexed.",
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"content": "<div>\n <p>Hacker Search is no longer available.</p>\n <p>\n Hacker Search was a tool for understanding HN readers' sentiment and\n looking for expert insights on topics of interest to HN readers.\n <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https://twitter.com/jnnnthnn\">@jnnnthnn</a> built it in 2024\n when it was still unclear how to get LLMs to do this job well.\n </p>\n <p>\n Fast forward to today, any free chatbot on the internet can do this\n well! Yet all endeavors, Hacker Search included, require maintenance.\n The fact that Hacker Search is no longer unique makes that maintenance\n no longer worth it. It's time to say goodbye.\n </p>\n <p>\n Curious what I'm building nowadays? Check out\n <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https://avec.ai/\">Avec</a>.\n </p>\n <p>Thank you so much for your support!</p>\n <p>\n Jonathan Unikowski\n (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https://hackersearch.net/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#ee8481808f9a868f80ae9b80878581999d8587c0808b9a\"><span>[email protected]</span></a>)\n </p>\n <h2>How it worked:</h2>\n <ul>\n <li>\n <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https://jnnnthnn.com/how-to-build-your-own-perplexity-for-any-dataset\">Read this blog post on how our Q&A feature worked!</a>\n </li>\n <li>\n <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https://jnnnthnn.com/building-hacker-search.html\">Read this blog post on how our semantic search engine worked!</a>\n </li>\n </ul>\n <hr />\n </div>",
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