Community Voices — HN Devtools Radar
A local research tool that ingests Hacker News discussions about developer tools, AI coding assistants, databases, self-hosting, SaaS, open source, and indie products — then generates a weekly Community Voices Document powered by RAG.
Why Hacker News devtools?
An active, opinionated community with rich technical debate — ideal for demonstrating retrieval-grounded synthesis vs generic LLM summaries.
- • High-signal Show HN and Ask HN threads every week
- • Strong themes: AI coding, Postgres, self-hosting, SaaS pricing
- • Public Algolia API — no auth required for ingestion
- • RAG citations map cleanly to real thread titles
Actions
Run the pipeline locally. Start with Seed Demo Data if you have no API key.
Load sample HN-like posts without network calls.
Fetch recent HN threads, score for devtools relevance, keep matches above threshold.
One batched LLM call: no-RAG report, RAG report, and rubric judge scores.
Retrieve community chunks and synthesize a cited report.
Generic LLM summary without retrieval.
Remove all ingested data and reports.