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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 :)

Hi HN! A few friends & I have just spent the past ~2 years building a new kind of email app for iOS. It's now available in GA and we think some of you might find it interesting. Wh…

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

Hi HN! I love reading the comments under HN submissions but I often get overwhelmed when I'm skimming threads to find interesting ones. To make my life easier, I built a Chrome ext…

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 (an…

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…

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…

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 fal…

I think the twitter.com -> x.com migration broke X.com on HN. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40390595 and a few broken examples at https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=…

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... (presuma…