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Paste in my prompt to Claude Code with an embedded API key for accessing my public readonly SQL+vector database, and you have a state-of-the-art research tool over Hacker News, arXiv, LessWrong, and dozens of other high-quality public commons sites. Claude whips up the monster SQL queries that safely run on my machine, to answer your most nuanced questions.<p>There&#x27;s also an Alerts functionality, where you can just ask Claude to submit a SQL query as an alert, and you&#x27;ll be emailed when the ultra nuanced criteria is met (and the output changes). Like I want to know when somebody posts about &quot;estrogen&quot; in a psychoactive context, or enough biology metaphors when talking about building infrastructure.<p>Currently have embedded: 
posts: 1.4M &#x2F; 4.6M
comments: 15.6M &#x2F; 38M
That&#x27;s with Voyage-3.5-lite. And you can do amazing compositional vector search, like search @FTX_crisis - (@guilt_tone - @guilt_topic) to find writing that was about the FTX crisis and distinctly without guilty tones, but that can mention &quot;guilt&quot;.<p>I can embed everything and all the other sources for cheap, I just literally don&#x27;t have the money.

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