40M embeddings to find who knows what on HN

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SHOW HN2024

33points
6comments
#1,541of 3,515 in 2024
Top 44%of 2024 by points

How HN took it

MixedNo clear lean

2 positive, 2 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 0 critical, out of 5 comments about the project. Thread score +0.25.

Execution: 1 for, 0 againstPerformance: 1 for, 0 against

The thread, comment by comment

Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.

positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker

What HN said

What people liked

  • Works well, shows the user's own contributions clearly

    From 2 comments
    • Nicely done. I was able to see my tiny contribution to HN clearly. Few questions: 1. Did you create embeddings for the whole comment or you used chunking? 2. How do you determine…
      Oras on HN
    • This worked really well for clickhouse and sqlite. Any plans to open source?
      tarasglek on HN

Objections

  • Unclear how to act on the list of users found

    From 1 comment
    • This is an interesting tool, but I'm not sure how to use the information it gives me. If I end up with a list of users who are interested in the same topic, what's the preferred…
      mikewarot on HN

Requests

  • Open source the project

    From 1 comment
    • This worked really well for clickhouse and sqlite. Any plans to open source?
      tarasglek on HN
  • Fix text selection and profile navigation

    From 1 comment
    • Text selection doesn't work, and I can't navigate to the user's news.ycombinator.com profile; otherwise, it's neat.
      britannio on HN

Questions

  • Whether comments are embedded whole or chunked

    From 1 comment
    • Nicely done. I was able to see my tiny contribution to HN clearly. Few questions: 1. Did you create embeddings for the whole comment or you used chunking? 2. How do you determine…
      Oras on HN
  • How effective keywords are determined

    From 1 comment
    • Nicely done. I was able to see my tiny contribution to HN clearly. Few questions: 1. Did you create embeddings for the whole comment or you used chunking? 2. How do you determine…
      Oras on HN

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