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Our opinion is that you need to rethink the UI from the ground up, which isn't a tractable proposition through an extension or an MCP server :)

This looks awesome! I wish I could connect to my Postgres DB using SSL.

Interesting! You should consider making the email field optional: it’s unclear why it’s required, and maybe folks will be more comfortable sharing if it is optional.

Blog post is now live: - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40442039 - https://jnnnthnn.com/how-to-build-your-own-perplexity-for-an...

Blog post is now live: - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40442039 - https://jnnnthnn.com/how-to-build-your-own-perplexity-for-an...

Perplexity offers a Reddit "focus" which does exactly that! https://www.perplexity.ai

Thanks for the kind words!

Yes, the underlying dataset very much conditions the quality of the responses. Additionally, the retrieval strategy is also a really important factor (and that is something which I haven't had time to extensively optimize).

I'm writing a blog post that will answer your questions! Will post it here when it's fully baked.

Thanks for flagging! Actively debugging, looks like one of my DB vendors is having some uptime issues. If you retry a couple times you should (eventually) get lucky.

Hey! Thank you! See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40402935

Hey! Not open source, largely because I don't have time to make it good enough for me to feel comfortable sharing what's otherwise pretty scrappy code, but I'm planning a blog post detailing how it was built.

Tech stack is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40238913 + the addition of turbopuffer for the new functionality.

X links are currently broken on HN and don't work with threads on archive.is. Alts:

- https://x.com/janleike/status/1791498187313963308

- Screenshot copy https://jnnnthnn.com/leike.png

Uploaded a screenshot here as X.com links appear to be broken this morning: https://jnnnthnn.com/leike.png

X.com links are currently broken on HN so I posted a screenshot instead

https://x.com/janleike/status/1791498187313963308

No. It will get offered to you once you exceed the monthly GPT-4o limit (currently 5 to avoid breaking the bank).

GPT-4o outperforms all local models so I figured using it as a fallback was the right approach :)

I pasted https://x.com/amanrsanger/status/1790947733899203027 as the URL but it appears to get rewritten to https://twitter.com/x/migrate?tok=eyJlIjoiL2FtYW5yc2FuZ2VyL3... (presumably due to twitter.com migrating to x.com), and the resulting URL is broken?

I made the caching window substantially longer (2 days instead of a few minutes) upon noticing most queries weren't about current events, and fixed a bug in the cache resolution logic that'd lead to a substantial number of cache misses.

Thank you!

Thanks for the feedback! That feature is there, just not discoverable enough!

Try clicking on the relative time (e.g. "over 1 year ago"). Should take you immediately to that comment on HN, and you can then hit back in your browser to return to Hacker Search.

Agreed on the extension. That's coming next!

I’m so glad you like it! Thank you for taking the time to write this kind note.

Hey! This leverages the official HN API (https://github.com/HackerNews/API), no scraping involved. I don't think it's my place to opine on "who owns the posts".

Yeah, that'd be a really nice thing to have! My current (and naive) approach is to just limit to the last 3 years of data. That said, it should be easy to add a date filter as a first step, and potentially have a more ingenious approach for letting the LLM reconcile contradictory statements based on the time at which they were posted.

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=What%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%20you%20think%20of%...?).

I got some feedback that GPT-3.5 was letting people down so improved my caching strategy and defaulted everything to GPT-4o!

https://julius.ai is great

True! I had "things that store my data in the cloud" in mind.

> Instead of downloading files to your desktop and then uploading them to ChatGPT, you can now add various file types directly from your Google Drive or Microsoft OneDrive. This allows ChatGPT to understand your Google Sheets, Docs, Slides, and Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint files more quickly.

As far as I know, this is the first integration of other cloud products in ChatGPT that's done as a 1st party integration (vs. "GPTs", which are all 3rd party)?

Oh yeah! What I meant is having Ollama run on the user's machine. Might not work for the use case you're trying to build for though :)

Could you sidestep inference altogether? Just return the top N results by cosine similarity (or full text search) and let the user find what they need?

https://ollama.com models also works really well on most modern hardware

You might not want them to have that information, but I think Google's history search now supports that for Chrome users: https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity

Thank you! And... got a link to share? :)