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by alastairr 2y ago
what about it?
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by alastairr 2y ago
yes, although there is a paid tier they try to upgrade you to. worth noting that there are some limits on how much data you can export in one go - I found the easiest way was to dump out pieces you need to google drive.
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All Hacker News posts dataset on Google BigQuery(console.cloud.google.com)
4 points by alastairr 2y ago|8 comments
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by alastairr 2y ago
This has appeared on HN a few times before - but it's so useful that it seems worth resharing periodically.
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Ask HN: HN Submissions Bulk Download
1 points by alastairr 2y ago|1 comments
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Middleware for Kagi's Small Web RSS Feed(paul.af)
7 points by alastairr 2y ago|0 comments
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The Care and Feeding of Data Scientists: Growing Careers (2019)(lineardigressions.com)
1 points by alastairr 2y ago|0 comments
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Polaris+Transit: When the US Navy Invented Satellite Navigation as a Side Projct [video](youtube.com)
5 points by alastairr 2y ago|0 comments
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by alastairr 2y ago
Yes, it's 34k websites, but to be transparent, they probably don't all strictly qualify as niche, for example, it includes some smaller commercial sites (usually if they have tech blogs). I've found the hardest part of this i
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by alastairr 2y ago
right now the biggest cost is llm api calls (currently claude haiku) for organising content and making it easily searchable - this is relatively cheap (max 50$ per month). I use pinecone for search which so far has been very inexpensive, t
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Show HN: Search >34k niche blogs and RSS feeds(getblaze.email)
3 points by alastairr 2y ago|4 comments
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Feeds Are Awesome (2022)(flyingcroissant.ca)
1 points by alastairr 2y ago|0 comments
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Using code copilots in data science(medium.com)
1 points by alastairr 2y ago|0 comments
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by alastairr 2y ago
my 2p worth - my work involves a lot of summarisation, recommendation from a user preference statement. I've been able to do this with 4o / opus, but the consistency wasn't there, which required complex prompting chains to s
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Surfing the (Human-Made) Internet(mikegrindle.com)
4 points by alastairr 2y ago|1 comments
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From RSS to My Kindle(olano.dev)
169 points by alastairr 2y ago|53 comments
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Why finding good tech blogs is still hard(medium.com)
1 points by alastairr 2y ago|0 comments
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by alastairr 2y ago
thanks, I didn’t know about jetbrains. that’s the type of thing i was after, they seem to decrease pricing per year, going flat from year 3 onwards: https://www.jetbrains.com/store/
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Feedland Blogroll Thoughts(johnjohnston.info)
2 points by alastairr 2y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Examples of subscription products with exponential decay pricing?
2 points by alastairr 2y ago|2 comments
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Is (My) RSS Dead?(boehs.org)
4 points by alastairr 2y ago|1 comments
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RSS blogrolls are a federated social network(alexsci.com)
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by alastairr 3y ago
doh! thanks, I'd meant to do that, I have changed in the title
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by alastairr 3y ago
Hey HN! I've been developing blaze.email for a while, and would love any feedback. blaze is a search engine over content gathered from a long list of blog / news / arxiv RSS feeds. it uses embedding similarity for ranking,
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Show HN: Blaze - Search >30k tech blogs, news and ArXiv(getblaze.email)
2 points by alastairr 3y ago|3 comments
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by alastairr 3y ago
it’d be interesting to know the ratio of consumer desktops / laptops to linux servers required to support the consumer internet. I know neither of those things are particularly well defined but it adds another perspective on this which
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TrustScore: Reference-Free Evaluation of LLM Response Trustworthiness(arxiv.org)
1 points by alastairr 3y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: blaze.email - semantic search & AI curated digests of dev blogs(getblaze.email)
3 points by alastairr 3y ago|0 comments
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by alastairr 3y ago
does anyone have recommendations for addins to integrate these 'smaller' llms into an IDE like VSCode? I'm pretty embedded with GH copilot, but curious to explore other options.
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Pinecone serverless: Reimagining the vector database to enable knowledgeable AI(pinecone.io)
2 points by alastairr 3y ago|0 comments

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