Ask HN: Is anyone building a question answering system using the HN corpus?

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rahimnathwani

3 years ago

Today, if someone wants to know what the HN community knows/thinks about a topic, they can either:

A) Search past HN comments on hn.algolia.com, or

B) Post a new 'Ask HN'.

LLMs could provide a new way to find answers within a corpus. These have been described elsewhere, e.g.

- https://github.com/openai/openai-cookbook/blob/main/examples...

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34477543

I keep expecting someone (maybe minimaxir or simonw?) to post a 'Show HN: Get your question answered by the collective wisdom of HN', but I no one has so far (unless I missed the submission?).

Is someone already working on this?

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