Khoj
AI
personal knowledge search and chat
SHOW HN2023
How HN took it
14 positive, 47 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 12 critical, out of 75 comments about the project. Thread score +0.01.
Idea: 10 for, 0 againstExecution: 1 for, 5 againstPerformance: 0 for, 5 againstDesign: 1 for, 1 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful local-first personal search and chat
From 2 comments
I've been playing with Khoj for the past day - it's really neat, well done! A few observations: 1. Telemetry is enabled by default, and may contain the API and chat queries. I've…
smcleod on HNAs someone who's been getting int o using Obsidian and messing around with chat ais, this is excellent, thank you!
mmanfrin on HN
Obsidian and Emacs integration
From 1 comment
This is very cool, the Obsidian integration is a neat feature. Please, someone make a home-assistant Alexa clone for this.
asynchronous on HN
Objections
Telemetry enabled by default and unclear
From 2 comments
What's the posthog telemetry used for? Why is there nothing on it in the docs? Why no clear way to opt out?
IAmNotACellist on HNI've been playing with Khoj for the past day - it's really neat, well done! A few observations: 1. Telemetry is enabled by default, and may contain the API and chat queries. I've…
smcleod on HN
Slow or heavy to run on laptops and consumer hardware
From 2 comments
Really cool to see this! Local is the real future of AI. I got really excited about this and fired it up on my petite little M2 Macbook Air only for it to grind it to a halt.…
mavsman on HNWhat's the recommended 'size' of the machine to run this? I tried to run it on a pretty beefy machine (8 core cpu/32 GB RAM) to use with ~40 odd PDF documents. My observation is…
bajirao on HN
Poor non-English performance for chat
From 1 comment
Khoj chat with Llama2 will not work with non-english languages though. You'll have to enable OpenAI for that
110 on HN
Requests
Support for Logseq
From 1 comment
Awesome work, I've been looking for something like this. Any plans to support Logseq in the future?
RomanHauksson on HN
PDF OCR for scanned documents
From 1 comment
This seems like a cool project. It would be awesome if it could also index a directory of PDFs, and if it could do OCR on those PDFs to support indexing scanned documents.…
coder543 on HN
Support for more local models and configurable model choice
From 2 comments
I see you’re using gpt4all; do you have a supported way to change the model being used for local inference? A number of apps that are designed for OpenAI’s completion/chat APIs…
spdustin on HNI've been playing with Khoj for the past day - it's really neat, well done! A few observations: 1. Telemetry is enabled by default, and may contain the API and chat queries. I've…
smcleod on HN
GitLab and Jira/Confluence connectors
From 2 comments
Any chance it can look at Gitlab as well? I like the idea but I'm not giving all my work to Microsoft.
marcus_holmes on HNIt would be pretty awesome if this could be hooked up into Jira and Confluence as well!
Crowberry on HN
Questions
What hardware is needed to run it locally?
From 1 comment
Interesting. The obvious question you haven't answered anywhere (as far as I can see) is what are the hardware requirements to run this locally?
IshKebab on HN
Does a vector DB get used for search?
From 1 comment
Is a vector db used?
moneywoes on HN
Alternatives named
rga with fzf for local file search
From 1 comment
Two comments 1. If you want better adoption especially among corporations, GPL-3 wont cut it. Maybe think of some business friendly licenses (MIT etc) 2. I understand the…
wanderingmind on HN
privateGPT
From 1 comment
Would anybody be able to recommend any standalone solution (essentially data must not leave elsewhere) to chat with documents with a web interface? I tried privategpt but results…
pachico on HN
rewind.ai
From 1 comment
rewind.ai might be able to help
fragmede on HN