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https://orangewords.com

Orange Words. My hobby project, a hacker news search system. It was initially created by hand and now I use AI augmented development. It's a good low risk environment for experimenting.


Working on small improvements to my hacker news search engine:

- https://orangewords.com


Ah, so this is why I suddenly got a bunch of email.

Hey all, site owner here. Thanks for the visits and all the fun stories! I really miss this era of computing. Feel free to let me know if you have something that should be added to the site.

Here's some site meta-history too:

https://telnet.org/history/


Cool site! I especially like the list of RFCs.

Just fyi, towel.blinkenlights.nl:23 still works for me, though I think maybe that's an IPv6 version, there's a note about ipv6 at the start that I was too slow to read. Maybe it should be re-listed? :)


Thanks! I did notice there are mixed stories about it working, and I got some email about it too. I'll check it out and make an update.


it's possible one of those emails might have been from me ;)


There's a lot of potential here. I'm hopeful this turns out well for the community of Abilene.


Writing code that runs down hole or otherwise connects back to the real world would be fun. Maybe I should pickup firmware skills. Good luck with your hiring!


It is a ton of fun! I've been hooked for years!


For Vespa there's a managed version hosted by the Vespa company in their cloud environment, and then the open source version is easily run locally or in any environment of your choosing. It takes some attention to detail, but it's quite flexible. I have a long running single node instance on an Intel NUC, but I've also run more complex cluster variations across different cloud environments.




Unrelated to the core topic, I really enjoy the aesthetic of their website. Another similar one is from Fixie.ai (also, interestingly, one of their customers).


This was my first thought too, after reading through their blog. This feels like a no-frills website made by an engineer, who makes things that just work.

The documentation is great, I really appreciate them putting the roadmap front and centre.


Yes, I like the turboxyz123 animation and contrast to the minimalist website (reminds me of the zen garden with a single rock). I think people forget nowadays in their haste to add the latest and greatest react animation, that too much noise is a thing.


This website rocks


what does fixie do these days?


They pivoted, but will probably pivot back to their original quest.


Nah, we're pretty happy with the new trajectory. :)


indeed! what a nice, minimal page... that comes with ~1.6mb of javascript.


What's wrong with that?


Yeah! fast, clean, cool, unique.


This will get you the first 80%:

* Any solid search engine (bm25 + embeddings and hnsw)

* Any api to a model (gpt3.5, gpt4, claude, etc)

* Some middleware to call search then build the prompt

Then the remaining:

* Create an eval dataset, then tune the search and the prompt as needed


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