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by kenforthewin 6mo ago
Did you think local-first meant how a dropdown is sorted? OpenAI-compatible is indeed one of the provider options for Atomic. Ollama and openRouter are separate options to allow for easier selection of models from these specific providers.
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by kenforthewin 6mo ago
I'm not sure what the dunk is supposed to be here .. Atomic supports the exact same feature set with local models as it does for OpenRouter. Is your gripe just that Openrouter is the first option in the dropdown?
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by kenforthewin 6mo ago
working on it https://github.com/kenforthewin/atomic/tree/main/mobile/andr...
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by kenforthewin 6mo ago
Biggest difference is Atomic leverages an LLM to auto-tag and a text embedding pipeline to drive semantic search - so the knowledge base is self-organizing. The bet here is that having an agent grep the filesystem is fine for a carefully cu
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Show HN: Atomic – Local-first, AI-augmented personal knowledge base(atomicapp.ai)
62 points by kenforthewin 6mo ago|43 comments
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by kenforthewin 6mo ago
Nice work, couple bits of feedback * The editor doesn't seem to support code fence literals (as in I can't type ``` to get a code block) * At very large markdown file sizes the performance is not great. I'm building an obsidi
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by kenforthewin 6mo ago
Hey HN - built this markdown editor because I couldn't find anything open source that was quite as slick as Obsidian's editing experience. I'm using it in Atomic, my ai-powered knowledge base tool. https://github.c
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Show HN: Markdown editor with Obsidian-style inline live preview(kenforthewin.github.io)
4 points by kenforthewin 6mo ago|1 comments
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by kenforthewin 6mo ago
repost?
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Reports of RAG's death have been greatly exaggerated(atomicapp.ai)
1 points by kenforthewin 6mo ago|0 comments
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by kenforthewin 6mo ago
Mind blowing how often LLM-written ads get to the front page of this site.
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Reports of RAG's death have been greatly exaggerated(atomicapp.ai)
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by kenforthewin 6mo ago
I'm constantly fighting with tmux copying. I want it to perform like native copying, but in mouse mode it seems to copy more characters than I want, copy newlines when I don't want them, and doesn't copy to clipboard in tmux-
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by kenforthewin 6mo ago
thanks for checking it out!
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by kenforthewin 6mo ago
I think agentic RAG still has its place. a hybrid semantic/keyword search tool in addition to other research tools outperforms the baseline in my experience.
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by kenforthewin 6mo ago
I keep harping on this, but the question is not "can you use your filesystem as a graph database" - of course you can - but whether this performs better or worse than a vector database approach, especially at scale. The premise of
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by kenforthewin 7mo ago
I agree with you, the linting pass seems valuable and it's something I'm thinking about adding - it's a great idea. What I'm pushing back on specifically is the insistence that the core loop - retrieving the most relevan
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by kenforthewin 7mo ago
This is just RAG. Yes, it's not using a vector database - but it's building an index file of semantic connections, it's constructing hierarchical semantic structures in the filesystem to aid retrieval .. this is RAG. On a sid
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by kenforthewin 7mo ago
I see .. so you're not using the vectors at all. Where are the evaluations showing this chromaFS approach is performing better than vectors?
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by kenforthewin 7mo ago
I don't get it - everybody in this thread is talking about the death of vector DBs and files being all you need. The article clearly states that this is a layer on top of their existing Chroma db.
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by kenforthewin 7mo ago
Let's not fool ourselves here. If a security feature adds any amount of friction at all, and there's a simple way to disable it, users will choose to do so.
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by kenforthewin 7mo ago
Thanks! Integrating Atomic with tools like claude code is one of the more exciting use cases in my opinion. There are a lot of tools for AI memory out there, but not a ton that allow you to browse, organize, and collaborate directly with th
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by kenforthewin 7mo ago
Thanks! Yeah, the data layer is sqlite - not just the vectors but the notes themselves, wiki and chat data, etc. The project started out as solely a desktop app, so sqlite seemed a natural fit. Since then I've pivoted to a server/
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by kenforthewin 7mo ago
Thanks, much appreciated! Yes, regarding ingestion methods the following are available: - RSS feed - Web clipper browser extension (working on publishing the extension to the chrome store) - Import a folder of markdown files (desktop app on
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by kenforthewin 7mo ago
Just following up here, I set up app signing so the newest Atomic version (v1.1.0) should no longer have this issue.
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by kenforthewin 7mo ago
The honest answer is it doesn't help a ton, at least not in its current form. It's fun to look at, and occasionally I'll see some interesting semantic connections between articles - but by far the more useful tools here are t
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by kenforthewin 7mo ago
Thanks for taking a look! Agreed regarding the privacy/security hesitations. Running the models locally with ollama is an option, but of course there's the hardware requirements and limitations of open source models to contend wit
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by kenforthewin 7mo ago
Thanks! The project is still early stages, haven't had a chance to get the app signing set up - right now the easiest way to get started is using the web interface via docker compose.
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by kenforthewin 7mo ago
For sure. The idea here (or at least how I've been using it) is to use Atomic as catchall place to put personal notes, interesting articles, research ideas .. pretty much anything, and Atomic will handle the categorization and knowledg
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Show HN: Atomic – Self-hosted, semantically-connected personal knowledge base(github.com)
152 points by kenforthewin 7mo ago|27 comments

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