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search and recommendation for hacker news
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How HN took it
8 positive, 12 neutral or asking, 3 mixed, 9 critical, out of 32 comments about the project. Thread score +0.01.
Execution: 5 for, 5 againstIdea: 3 for, 2 againstDesign: 0 for, 2 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful for finding related posts and expanding topic exposure.
From 3 comments
This is great. I often come across some HN post on a topic I am interested in and then want to go look at other posts in the same topic cluster to expand my exposure. This looks…
dpe82 on HNLove it. This response is very reactive heavy, where as it’s elixir I’m more interested in. But well done on the execution. It does exactly what it states. I’ve bookmarked. I…
RileyJames on HNThis is amazing, thank you for this. Makes finding stuff a lot easier
sukki07 on HN
Fast turnaround on requested features.
From 2 comments
Very fast turnaround. Kudos! Works very nicely now. Try this: https://hn-recommend.julienc.me/?q=sf%20crime With the Newest filter vs the Oldest filter. ( btw the default…
dxbydt on HNWow, very fast turnaround time!! I just added it and it works :) Nice job!
TechBro8615 on HN
Objections
Search returns unrelated results, especially for single words or short queries.
From 4 comments
Hmm I tried searching "elixir" and found nothing related to the language. HN Algolia gives me exactly what I want. On what basis do you say it's "not helpful"?
benzible on HNhey Julien. I love the product but the search doesn't seem to be doing the best for me. For example, I looked up Tailwind and got plenty of results but none of them actually…
danvayn on HNA comment about search results: "design system" is related to design, "system design" relates to computing It seems search takes the two inputs as the same. Also, search doesn't…
sogen on HNThis URL fails https://hn-recommend.julienc.me/?q=Go
2h on HN
Does not match exact words, so known posts can be missed.
From 2 comments
I search for a url I know was posted and it doesn't show it. It shows unrelated articles.
4hEn on HNIt's 10 years old. This search query https://hn-recommend.julienc.me/?q=paul%20graham returns articles that are missing both words of the query
4hEn on HN
Results include old posts unless sorted by recency.
From 1 comment
Pls sort by recency. Otherwise you see 13 year old articles most of them obsolete/irrelevant to the current situation.
dxbydt on HN
Requests
Add recency or time filter.
From 2 comments
Pls sort by recency. Otherwise you see 13 year old articles most of them obsolete/irrelevant to the current situation.
dxbydt on HNA time filter is needed
lfkdev on HN
Add tagging or keyword filtering.
From 1 comment
hey Julien. I love the product but the search doesn't seem to be doing the best for me. For example, I looked up Tailwind and got plenty of results but none of them actually…
danvayn on HN
Build a browser extension or mobile shortcut.
From 2 comments
i like the idea of this but wont remember it because my muscle memory is tuned to news.ycombinator.com. perhaps i can recommend a chrome extension instead of a website?
swyx on HNAn iOS share widget would be cool too. Since you support putting the input text in the URL, then maybe someone can make a Workflow for it and share it here.
TechBro8615 on HN
Let users adjust weighting between relevance, score and recency.
From 1 comment
This is great. I often come across some HN post on a topic I am interested in and then want to go look at other posts in the same topic cluster to expand my exposure. This looks…
dpe82 on HN
Questions
Why single words perform poorly.
From 1 comment
Out of curiosity related to the word vectorization algorithm...why does one word not perform as well? Whats the cause/rationale?
Solvency on HN
How many articles were skipped during embedding.
From 1 comment
The blog post link on GitHub was a nice walk through of your method and I was interested in what you think the hit rate was for getting successful text for embeddings from TFA…
jimmySixDOF on HN
Alternatives named
askhn.ai
From 1 comment
Checkout https://askhn.ai The content is ranked by how people discuss the topics and who discusses them If you just do embeddings on posts you might miss relevant content. When…
lettergram on HN
HN Algolia
From 1 comment
Hmm I tried searching "elixir" and found nothing related to the language. HN Algolia gives me exactly what I want. On what basis do you say it's "not helpful"?
benzible on HN
hackernewsletter.com
From 1 comment
You mean like the one that's emailed to me every week? https://hackernewsletter.com
ColinWright on HN