[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":643},["ShallowReactive",2],{"project-46442245":3},{"id":4,"name":5,"line":6,"line_source":7,"title":8,"url":9,"domain":5,"maker":10,"posted_at":11,"year":12,"points":13,"comments":14,"rank_in_year":15,"shown_in_year":16,"top":17,"tier":18,"category":19,"subcategory":20,"format":21,"keywords":22,"reception":28,"sentiment":29,"stance_mix":30,"scored_comments":35,"aspects":36,"strip":47,"post_text":49,"what":50,"said":107,"maker_in_thread":213,"shape":224,"grid":229,"attempts":602,"same_week":607,"maker_shows":39,"maker_hidden":635,"reader_version":636,"card":637},"46442245","exopriors.com","Use Claude Code to Query 600 GB Indexes over Hacker News, ArXiv, etc.","title","Show HN: Use Claude Code to Query 600 GB Indexes over Hacker News, ArXiv, etc.","https:\u002F\u002Fexopriors.com\u002Fscry","Xyra",1767167264,2025,397,142,118,3837,4,"legend","data","public corpus search with vector embeddings","other",[23,24,25,26,27],"vector search","text-to-sql","semantic search","embeddings","hacker news search","mixed",0.131,{"positive":31,"neutral":32,"mixed":33,"critical":34},15,22,0,11,48,{"idea":37,"performance":40,"execution":43,"pricing":44,"privacy":45,"design":46},{"positive":38,"critical":39},10,2,{"positive":41,"critical":42},1,3,{"positive":33,"critical":39},{"positive":33,"critical":33},{"positive":33,"critical":39},{"positive":39,"critical":33},[48,48,42,48,42,41,33,48,42,41,41,33,48,41,33,48,42,42,48,42,41,39,48,48,48,42,42,42,33,33,33,33,33,33,33,33,33,33,41,41],5,"Paste in my prompt to Claude Code with an embedded API key for accessing my public readonly SQL+vector database, and you have a state-of-the-art research tool over Hacker News, arXiv, LessWrong, and dozens of other high-quality public commons sites. 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Like I want to know when somebody posts about \"es",{"problem":51,"audience":57,"pricing":65,"motivation":66,"time_to_build":73,"stack":79,"openness":104,"stage":105,"team_size":106},{"value":52,"source":53,"evidence":54},"Lets users research large public text corpora with nuanced SQL and semantic vector queries","maker",[55],{"id":56},"post",{"value":58,"source":59,"evidence":60},"researchers and people exploring public text corpora with Claude Code or similar agents","inferred",[61,62],{"id":56},{"id":63,"by":10,"text":64},"46450880","in the direction of \"empowering the public with new capabilities they didn't have before\", Scry offers, with the copy and paste of a prompt and talking with an agent: 1) Full…",null,{"value":67,"source":53,"evidence":68},"Maker wants to empower the public with research tools and is seeking funding for embedding more documents",[69,70],{"id":63,"by":10,"text":64},{"id":71,"by":10,"text":72},"46447427","I mean I've been living off of $1700\u002Fmonth for a while in Berkeley. I have been trying hard the last 6 weeks to raise angel investment, and am moving to Thailand in a few days to…",{"value":74,"source":53,"evidence":75},"Idea December 3, initial release December 19",[76],{"id":77,"by":10,"text":78},"46457566","Thank you! I got the idea December 3, and initially released it December 19.",[80,86,92,96,100],{"value":81,"source":53,"evidence":82},"Voyage-3.5-lite embeddings",[83],{"id":84,"by":10,"text":85},"46447358","I'm using Voyage-3.5-lite at halfvec(2048), which with my limited research, seems to be one of the best embedding models. There's semi-sophisticated (breaking on paragraphs,…",{"value":87,"source":53,"evidence":88},"Postgres",[89],{"id":90,"by":10,"text":91},"46472511","Hetzner, Postgres, Rust, SvelteKit",{"value":93,"source":53,"evidence":94},"Rust",[95],{"id":90,"by":10,"text":91},{"value":97,"source":53,"evidence":98},"SvelteKit",[99],{"id":90,"by":10,"text":91},{"value":101,"source":53,"evidence":102},"Hetzner hosting",[103],{"id":90,"by":10,"text":91},"unknown","launched","solo",{"praise":108,"objections":124,"requests":158,"questions":189,"alternatives":201},[109,117],{"value":110,"source":111,"evidence":112},"Generating SQL rather than a black-box chatbot is a good research approach","commenter",[113],{"id":114,"by":115,"text":116},"46442726","barishnamazov","I like that this relies on generating SQL rather than just being a black-box chat bot. It feels like the right way to use LLMs for research: as a translator from natural language…",{"value":118,"source":111,"evidence":119},"Onboarding flow is simple and nice",[120],{"id":121,"by":122,"text":123},"46443299","m11a","The quick setup is cool! I’ve not seen this onboarding flow for other tools, and I quite like its simplicity.",[125,140,154],{"value":126,"source":111,"evidence":127},"Security risk from network egress and pasted embedded API key",[128,132,136],{"id":129,"by":130,"text":131},"46448431","dcreater","Not a software engineer. Isnt allowing network egress a security risk? exopriors.com is not an established domain or brand that warrants the trust its asking",{"id":133,"by":134,"text":135},"46442735","mentalgear","Nice, but would you consider open-sourcing it? I (and I assume others) are not keen on sharing my API keys with a 3rd party.",{"id":137,"by":138,"text":139},"46448094","theptip","Guys, you obviously cannot suggest that —dangerously-skip-permissions is ok here, especially in the same paragraph as “even if you are not a software engineer”. This is untrusted…",{"value":141,"source":111,"evidence":142},"Claims of state of the art and AGI are hyperbolic",[143,147,150],{"id":144,"by":145,"text":146},"46443069","kburman","> a state-of-the-art research tool over Hacker News, arXiv, LessWrong, and dozens what makes this state of the art?",{"id":148,"by":130,"text":149},"46448460","\"intelligence explosion\", \"are essentially AGI at this point\", \"ARBITRARY SQL + VECTOR ALGEBRA\" etc. Casual use of hyperbole and technical jargon. my charlatan radar is going off.",{"id":151,"by":152,"text":153},"46447355","bfeynman","lots of highfalutin language trying to make something thats pretty hand wavy look like it's not. Where are the benchmarks? The \"vector algebra\" framing with @X + @Y - @Z is a…",{"value":155,"source":111,"evidence":156},"Vector algebra does not form meaningful algebra over concepts",[157],{"id":151,"by":152,"text":153},[159,171,178],{"value":160,"source":111,"evidence":161},"Open source the project",[162,163,167],{"id":133,"by":134,"text":135},{"id":164,"by":165,"text":166},"46442688","bugglebeetle","Seems very cool, but IMO you’d be better off doing an open source version and then hosted SAAS.",{"id":168,"by":169,"text":170},"46442716","7777777phil","Really useful currently working on a autonomous academic research system [1] and thinking about integrating this. Currently using custom prompt + Edison Scientific API. Any plans…",{"value":172,"source":111,"evidence":173},"Support self-hosted smaller models",[174],{"id":175,"by":176,"text":177},"46442733","nineteen999","That's just not a good use of my Claude plan. If you can make it so a self-hosted Lllama or Qwen 7B can query it, then that's something.",{"value":179,"source":111,"evidence":180},"Add pubmed or supplementary material coverage",[181,185],{"id":182,"by":183,"text":184},"46447619","biophysboy","just a recommendation, pubmed is free and not limited to preprints",{"id":186,"by":187,"text":188},"46443756","bonsai_spool","This may exist already, but I'd like to find a way to query 'Supplementary Material' in biomedical research papers for genes \u002F proteins or even biological processes. As it is,…",[190,197],{"value":191,"source":111,"evidence":192},"How are alerts implemented?",[193],{"id":194,"by":195,"text":196},"46449244","pcloadlett3r","How is the alerts functionality implemented?",{"value":198,"source":111,"evidence":199},"How does vector search handle semantic bleeding across datasets?",[200],{"id":114,"by":115,"text":116},[202,206],{"value":203,"source":53,"evidence":204},"Google BigQuery",[205],{"id":63,"by":10,"text":64},{"value":207,"source":111,"evidence":208},"MCP servers",[209],{"id":210,"by":211,"text":212},"46453938","Too","What’s the benefit of manually pasting a massive prompt and enable egress to make queries over http vs just using MCP?",{"comments":214,"answered":215,"key":216},29,14,[217,218,221],{"id":84,"text":85},{"id":219,"text":220},"46449765","Exactly, people want precision and control sometimes. Also it's very hard to beat SQL query planners when you have lots of material views and indexes. 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