25 Nov 25

You can submit text posts and links, just like the real HN. But on HN Simulator, all of the comments are generated by LLMs + generate instantly.

The best way to use it (IMHO) is to submit a text post or a curl-able URL here: https://news.ysimulator.run/submit. You don’t need an account to post.

When you do that, various prompts will be built from a library of commenter archetypes, moods, and shapes. The AI commenters will actually respond to your text post and/or submitted link.

I really wanted it to feel real, and I think the project mostly delivers on that. When I was developing it, I kept getting confused between which tab was the “real” HN and which was the simulator, and accidentally submitted some junk to HN. (Sorry dang and team – I did clean up after myself).

The app itself is built with Node + Express + Postgres, and all of the inference runs on Replicate.

by tmfnk 2 months ago
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How comments work on Hacker News Simulator If you want to know how the comments on Hacker News Simulator are generated, read on.

If you have more general questions, check out the FAQ.

by tmfnk 2 months ago

The agent grounds its feedback by searching arXiv, so it works best in fields like AI where research is freely published there. It’s an experimental tool, but I hope it helps you with your research.

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Weaviate is an open-source, cloud-native vector database that stores both objects and vectors, enabling semantic search at scale. It combines vector similarity search with keyword filtering, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and reranking in a single query interface. Common use cases include RAG systems, semantic and image search, recommendation engines, chatbots, and content classification.

Weaviate supports two approaches to store vectors: automatic vectorization at import using integrated models (OpenAI, Cohere, HuggingFace, and others) or direct import of pre-computed vector embeddings. Production deployments benefit from built-in multi-tenancy, replication, RBAC authorization, and many other features.

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OpenSpec aligns humans and AI coding assistants with spec-driven development so you agree on what to build before any code is written. No API keys required.

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22 Nov 25


germinationX Concept art & Character design for permaculture online game inspired by farmville and utilising AI technology from the Lirec project

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Run Qwen LLMs locally in your browser with WebGPU. Zero installation, instant AI chat.

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Wealthfolio is an open-source, private, and offline desktop portfolio tracker. Keep your financial data safe on your computer. No subscriptions, no cloud storage - just a straightforward tool to manage your wealth.

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A self-hosted net worth and portfolio manager. Contribute to venil7/assets development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Your Finances — made simple Actual Budget is a super fast and privacy-focused app for managing your finances. At its heart is the well proven and much loved Envelope Budgeting methodology. You own your data and can do whatever you want with it. Featuring multi-device sync, optional end-to-end encryption and so much more.

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Welcome! Plain text accounting is a way of doing bookkeeping and accounting with plain text files and scriptable, command-line-friendly software, such as Ledger, hledger, or Beancount. This site collects the PTA community’s tools, docs and practices. It is maintained by Simon Michael (hledger project leader, PTA fan) and contributors like you.

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21 Nov 25

The cheap web is a solarpunk philosophy of web design.

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flashcards in a private podcast feed. Knowledge in Audio format.

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Mag Wealth In the human world, wealth inequality arguably has more of an impact on lives and relationships than physical differences like distance and energy. We need to have meaningful discussions about structural class differences, and segmenting the population based on wealth is an obvious starting point.

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