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Client Side Only Example, chat with this page. Because we don't use API keys we don't have any real need for a server. view the page source, it's _all_ there! The program doesn't take history into account & yet is has surprising coherence. View Source and start on line 258.

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    Oplim122

    IFTTT but for webpage events: do X when Y happens in website

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    Low code self-hosted backend API to build web apps

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    APIs for building AI chat and search

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    A free open source Buffer alternative

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    Super RAG114

    Super performant RAG pipelines for AI apps

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    Add PDF chat to your LLM app in less than 9 lines of code

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    Hello HN! I've been working on http://underthesite.com for the last month and now think it is ready for some full strength HN feedback. What do you guys think? It crawls up to 10 pages of a given site while you wait, looking for community-provided CSS / XPath selectors and regular expressions. Additionally, I'd like to appeal to you to submit matchers for technologies that you care about. Technologies are easy to add, so add your favorite jQuery plugins, analytics tools, client-side node.js wrappers, what have you. I'm going to be running a large crawl in the next few days and want to make…

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    Opensource Low code RAG Builder

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    RAGaaS75

    The API for building production-ready AI apps with your data

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    In this blog, we introduce a pure JSON index to enable reasoning-based RAG without relying on any Vector DBs. Any feedback is welcome!

    Oct 2025 · vectifyai.notion.site

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    Hi all, Sharing a repo I was working on for a while. It’s open-source and includes many different strategies for RAG (currently 17), including tutorials, and visualizations. This is great learning and reference material. Open issues, suggest more strategies, and use as needed. Enjoy!

    2024 · github.com

  12. 12RW

    RAG Web UI is designed to be the most straightforward way to build your own knowledge-based Q&A system. While other RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) projects might be complex, we focus on making it super easy to understand and use. Why It's The Most Beginner-Friendly: Simple Document Management - Just upload your documents (PDF, DOCX, Markdown, Text) - System handles all the complex processing automatically - No need to worry about document chunking or vectorization - Documents update automatically in the background Easy-to-Use Chat Interface - Ask questions in plain language - Get…

    2025 · github.com

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    RAGless is a semantic retrieval system that answers questions about your documentation, without using an LLM at runtime. - EmilResearch/RAGless

    23d ago · github.com

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    Hey HN, wanted to share a new collection of dev utilities that are ad-free, client-side (nothing leaves your device), with a command+k menu for fast search. github.com/jamdotdev/jam-dev-utilities Why? The sites we use every day for data conversion (e.g. PNG to data URI) are cluttered with ads, one of those mildly annoying things engineers deal with while writing code. This came up at a recent team dinner, and we got interested in creating nicer, modern, uncluttered versions of these tools. Since then, every time we needed a util, we added it to our stack. Lots more tools still to…

    2024

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    Upload markdown docs, get a support chatbot that answers with citations. The entire backend is one JS file — storage, search, and conversation history are handled by the runtime. Stack: Next.js + OnCell + OpenRouter. Demo: https://youtu.be/rWIU43pOH5Y

    Apr 2026 · github.com

  16. 16PR

    Hi HN, While building RAG agents, I noticed a lot of token budget was wasted on formatting overhead (HTML tags, JSON structure, whitespace). Existing solutions felt too heavy (often requiring torch&#x2F;transformers), so I wrote this lightweight, zero-dependency library to solve it. It includes strategies for context packing, PII redaction, and tool output compression. Benchmarks show it can save ~15% of tokens with negligible latency overhead (<0.5ms). Happy to answer any questions!

    Dec 2025 · github.com

  17. 17IB

    Hey HN! Over the past few weeks, I’ve been working on DataBridge, an open-source solution for data ingestion and querying across text, PDFs, images, and videos. In our latest update, we’ve added a fully local deployment option: - No internet required – Runs entirely offline. - Customizable Models – Supports any LLM and embedding model via Ollama (with options for any other private providers) - Extensibility – You can plug in your own models or tools easily. This local-first approach ensures better privacy, security, and flexibility, especially for teams dealing with sensitive data. You can…

    2025 · github.com

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    Please check out out project, Lite Engine[1], a Backend as a Service web application platform. We provide everything you need to rapidly prototype and deploy your single page applications: static file hosting for your html, css, javascript and other assets, a subdomain on our site, security with https, and a 'create your own API' with SQL over CORS and JSON. I think of this as "geocities with a CORS backend". For your backend we've developed a system we call API Queries. You'll define SQL queries, save them on the backend, then execute them with http post requests that return JSON responses.…

    2016

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    Hey HN, I wanted to share something I’ve been working on: *RAG-Guard*, a document AI that’s all about privacy. It’s an experiment in combining Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) with AI-powered question answering, but with a twist — your data stays yours. Here’s the idea: you can upload contracts, research papers, personal notes, or any other documents, and RAG-Guard processes everything locally in your browser. Nothing leaves your device unless you explicitly approve it. ### How It Works - * Zero-Trust by Design*: Every step happens in your browser until you say otherwise. - * Local…

    2025 · github.com

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    Hey HN, I’m Julia, my team and I are building Rag-in-a-Box (https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.joinable.ai&#x2F;rag-in-a-box), hosted RAG service that let’s builders of any skill level launch their own RAG app loaded with their own data in minutes. [ What can you do ] 1. Load your documents (PDFs, CSV, PPTs, Word Docs, etc) and make them searchable instantly. All your data stays private and encrypted. 2. Choose latest open source LLM (Llama 4, Deepseek, GPT-oss, etc) to interact with your docs 3. Access your hosted RAG via API - build your own custom front end or integrate with your existing product…

    2025 · joinable.ai

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    Hey HN! We’ve published a series of open-source notebooks showcasing Advanced RAG and Agentic architectures, and we’re excited to share our latest compilation of Agentic RAG techniques! These Colab-ready notebooks are designed to be plug-and-play, making it easy to integrate them into your projects. We're actively expanding the repository and would love your input to shape its future. What Advanced RAG technique should we add next? Drop your ideas in the comments or open an issue on GitHub!

    2025 · github.com

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    Hi HN. I've been working on an Elixir library for synchronising state, maintained by the server, to connected web clients. I found this was something I kept implementing for side-projects, so I've extracted it into a library. It solves a similar problem to Phoenix LiveView, but aimed at a different level of abstraction: rather than synchronising HTML and UI events, this just synchronises (JSON-serialisable) state. Topics can be shared between connected users, and each client can subscribe to multiple topics. The library takes care of starting topic instances (GenServer processes) as needed,…

    2023 · github.com

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    Hi HN, I'm Giovanni, founder of Userware. We built XAML.io, a free browser-based IDE for C# and XAML that compiles and runs .NET projects entirely client-side via WebAssembly. No server-side build step. The link above opens a sample project using Newtonsoft.Json. Click Run to compile and execute it in your browser. You can edit the code, add NuGet packages, and share your project via a URL. What's new in v0.6: - NuGet package support (any library compatible with Blazor WebAssembly) - Code sharing via URL with GitHub-like forking and attribution - XAML autocompletion, AI error fixing, split…

    Feb 2026 · xaml.io

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