Hacker Search

Hacker Search

Find out what readers of Hacker News think about any topic!

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Hacker Search leverages Hacker News' comments and submissions to answer your questions. It is particularly useful when you're interested in understanding HN readers' sentiment about a topic, or when looking for expert insights on technical topics.
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Jonathan Unikowski
Hacker Search
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Hi Product Hunt! I'm Jonathan and I built Hacker Search (https://hackersearch.net), an LLM-powered version of Hacker News' Ask HN. Unlike Ask HN, Hacker Search doesn't solicit new contributions from HN readers. Instead, it leverages Hacker News' historical data to answer questions, and offers LLM-generated summaries of those. I've used it for questions like "Should I use Drizzle or Prisma?" or "What is a good screen capture that allows easy zooming effects on Mac?". It is particularly useful when you're interested in understanding HN readers' sentiment about a topic, or when looking for expert insights on topics of interest to HN readers. I've been using it continually while building it, and have found it particularly useful to find software libraries recommended by HN or get quick vibe checks on hot topics. Please try it out and let me know what you think of it! I have to limit the number of LLM summaries each person can get for free, as this is entirely self-funded. If you hit the limit, you can subscribe for more summaries generated by a better model ($8/month), or bring your own compute by running inference on Ollama on your machine!
JaredL
YouMind
Hacker Search is a clever tool that leverages the wealth of knowledge on Hacker News to provide valuable insights. It's particularly useful for understanding the sentiment and expertise of the HN community on various topics. 👍
Jonathan Unikowski
Hacker Search
Maker
@jaredl Thank you!
Sophia Wang
Tidyread
As a product manager, I'm always on the lookout for tools that save time and provide quality insights. Hacker Search has been my go-to for quick sentiment analysis on product features. It's like having a focus group at my fingertips, especially when I'm gauging interest for our latest SaaS offering. Plus, the UI is so clean and intuitive, I find myself navigating it with ease.
Ryan Hoover
Product Hunt
This is a neat project. What's been the biggest surprise so far, @jnnnthnn? And what are people searching for most often?
Jonathan Unikowski
Hacker Search
Maker
@rrhoover Thanks Ryan, glad you like it! The biggest surprise so far is that folks use it as much for personal lifestyle questions as they do for technical questions. Queries like "how to get out of a rut" and "is nano hydroxyapatite a good substitute for fluoride?" have gotten a ton of traffic (and frankly the answers are quite good). AI is definitely the most researched topic overall. My guess is that that is partly because it's very much the topic of the day, and partly because folks are trying to cut through the hype. I see a lot of queries trying to determine things like the best vector DB, which LLMs to use, and so on.
Aris Nakos
Llanai
Really cool idea and solid execution man. Nice color palette too!
Jonathan Unikowski
Hacker Search
Maker
@aris_nakos Thank you!!
Benjamin Sloutsky
ClothingAI
This seems very useful, will definitely check it out!
Jonathan Unikowski
Hacker Search
Maker
@benjamin_sloutsky Please let me know what you think of it!
Michael Cyger
Pyramid Solitaire
This is very cool! Thanks for building and sharing, Jonathan!
Jonathan Unikowski
Hacker Search
Maker
@michaelcyger Thank you!
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