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  barishnamazov
  I like that this relies on generating SQL rather than just being a black-box chat bot. It feels like the right way to use LLMs for research: as a translator from natural language to a rigid query language, rather than as the database itself. Very cool project!Hopefully your API doesn't get exploited and you are doing timeouts/sandboxing -- it'd be easy to do a massive join on this.I also have a question mostly stemming from me being not knowledgeable in the area -- have you noticed any semantic bleeding when research is done between your datasets? e.g., "optimization" probably means different things under ArXiv, LessWrong, and HN. Wondering if vector searches account for this given a more specific question.
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  bonsai_spool
  This may exist already, but I'd like to find a way to query 'Supplementary Material' in biomedical research papers for genes / proteins or even biological processes.As it is, the Supplementary Materials are inconsistently indexed so a lot of insight you might get from the last 15 years of genomics or proteomics work is invisible.I imagine this approach could work, especially for Open Access data?
• voxleone
  this is great>>@FTX_crisis - (@guilt_tone - @guilt_topic)Using LLm for tasks that could be done faster with traditional algorithmic approaches seems wasteful, but this is one of the few legitimate cases where embeddings are doing something classical IR literally cannot. You could also make make the LLM explain the query it’s about to run. Before execution:“Here’s the SQL and semantic filters I’m about to apply. Does this match your intent?”
• nielsole
  I think a prompt + an external dataset is a very simple distribution channel right now to explore anything quickly with low friction. The curl | bash of 2026
• anon
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  kburman
  > a state-of-the-art research tool over Hacker News, arXiv, LessWrong, and dozenswhat makes this state of the art?
• 7777777phil
  Really useful currently working on a autonomous academic research system [1] and thinking about integrating this. Currently using custom prompt + Edison Scientific API. Any plans of making this open source?[1] https://github.com/giatenica/gia-agentic-short
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  nineteen999
  That's just not a good use of my Claude plan. If you can make it so a self-hosted Lllama or Qwen 7B can query it, then that's something.
• fragmede
  > I can embed everything and all the other sources for cheap, I just literally don't have the money.How much do you need for the various leaks, like the paradise papers, the panama papers, the offshore leajay, the Bahamas leaks, the fincen files, the Uber files, etc. and what's your Venmo?
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  mentalgear
  Nice, but would you consider open-sourcing it? I (and I assume others) are not keen on sharing my API keys with a 3rd party.
• m11a
  The quick setup is cool! I’ve not seen this onboarding flow for other tools, and I quite like its simplicity.
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  gtsnexp
  Is the appeal of this tool its ability to identify semantic similarity?
• bugglebeetle
  Seems very cool, but IMO you’d be better off doing an open source version and then hosted SAAS.
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  octoberfranklin
  "Claude Code and Codex are essentially AGI at this point"Okaaaaaaay....