LLocalSearch
AI
local llm search assistant
SHOW HN2024
How HN took it
22 positive, 26 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 7 critical, out of 56 comments about the project. Thread score +0.26.
Execution: 4 for, 4 againstIdea: 5 for, 3 againstDocs: 2 for, 0 againstPerformance: 1 for, 0 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Impressive and cool project
From 3 comments
Impressive, I don't think I've seen a local model call upon specialised modules yet (although I can't keep up with everything going on). I too use local 7b open-hermes and it's…
keyle on HNThat’s a great project you pulled off. From the time I starred it (10-12h ago I think), and upon re-checking this post, you gained 500+ stars lol. Visualized in a chart with…
BrutalCoding on HNcool to see Go here
nikolayasdf123 on HN
Useful for corporate internal search
From 1 comment
This is cool, haven't run this yet but seems really promising. Am thinking how this can be a super useful to hook with internal corporate search engines and then get answers from…
xydac on HN
Objections
Name Perplexity clone is misleading about scope and underlying models
From 2 comments
what does this have to do with Perplexity? it should reference the underlying models used instead
hackernewds on HNWhy call it "Perplexity clone" when this is much more than what Perplexity offers? Btw. This is the first time I hear about Perplexity, which after 10 minutes of experimentation,…
high_priest on HN
Search engine claim misleading since indexing is not local
From 1 comment
It says it's a "locally running search engine" - but not sure how it finds the sites and pages to index in the first place?
pants2 on HN
Requests
Support for other backends besides Ollama
From 1 comment
any plans to support other backends besides ollama?
d-z-m on HN
Restrict searches to trusted sites or offline sources
From 1 comment
Wonderful work! is it possible to make it only use a subset of the web? (Only sites that I trust and think are relevant to producing an accurate answer), and are there ways to…
keefle on HN
Executable installers instead of command line setup
From 1 comment
This is awesome, would love if there were executable files where these dependencies are needed. That would make it wayyyy more accessible rather than just to those that know how…
hanniabu on HN
Questions
Minimum hardware requirements
From 1 comment
Would be good if the readme mentions minimum hardware specs to get a reasonably decent performance. E.g. I have a ThinkPad X1 extreme i7 with MaxQ graphics, any hopes of running…
noisy_boy on HN
Whether it runs on macOS
From 1 comment
I if a quick poke through the source and it seems like there’s not much reason this couldn’t run on macOS? It seems that ollama is doing the inference and then there’s a go…
gorbypark on HN
Alternatives named
Perplexity
From 2 comments
According to Crunchbase [0], Perplexity has raised over $100M. You built this in your spare time? The following things jump out to me: - How much a hype cycle invites insane…
aagha on HNWhy call it "Perplexity clone" when this is much more than what Perplexity offers? Btw. This is the first time I hear about Perplexity, which after 10 minutes of experimentation,…
high_priest on HN
Phind
From 1 comment
Why call it "Perplexity clone" when this is much more than what Perplexity offers? Btw. This is the first time I hear about Perplexity, which after 10 minutes of experimentation,…
high_priest on HN