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Hacker News Best

Hacker News Best 55 by Woods369 | 16 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: Hacker News-like forum, specific to Game Development?

Ask HN: Hacker News-like forum, specific to Game Development? 3 by seattle_spring | 2 comments on Hacker News. I'm a game development hobbyist and I'd love to find a community similar to HN, where a mix of technology and industry-related news is shared and discussed. Does something like this exist? Any other communities or publications useful for someone interested in the gamedev space? Bonus points if they have "Who is hiring" type threads with actual participation from gamedevs, rather than the typical job listings that are outdated and opaque. This was posted 2 years ago [1], and some good resources were shared there. Would love to know if there are any new spaces to check out in 2024. [1] https://ift.tt/YxZUlka

Show HN: Hacker Search – A semantic search engine for Hacker News

Show HN: Hacker Search – A semantic search engine for Hacker News 6 by jnnnthnn | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hi HN! I'm Jonathan and I built Hacker Search ( https://ift.tt/qQVknAE ), a semantic search engine for Hacker News. Type a keyword or a description of what you're interested in, and you'll get top links from HN surfaced to you along with brief summaries. Unlike HN's otherwise very valuable search feature, Hacker Search doesn't require you to get your keywords exactly right. That's achieved by leveraging OpenAI's latest embedding models alongside more traditional indexes extracted from the scraped and cleaned up contents of the links. I think there are many more interesting things one could build atop the HN dataset in the age of LLMs (e.g. more explicitly searching for technical opinions, recommending stories to you based on your interests, and making the core search feature more useful). If any of those sound interesting to you, head over to https...