About

Orange Words is a playground where I tinker with the combination of hacker news data, search, rag, and machine learning.

Data

The data includes a backfill of all past items from hacker news, as well as an ongoing sync of the latest items (every 30 minutes or so). This includes updating items after their edit window has closed. The processing also includes enriching the data, to make it more searchable or to support interesting features I want to develop.

The data is sourced from the Hacker News API:

• https://github.com/HackerNews/API

Search Engine

The underlying search and data engine is a single node instance of Vespa, which runs on a robust Intel NUC server.

• https://vespa.ai

Machine Learning

The language models used for the retrieval augmented generation (RAG) include a handful of interesting "open" models served by together.ai, as well as various gpt models from openai.

• https://together.ai
• https://openai.com

Web Stack

The web stack is composed of python, flask, tailwind, htmx, and _hyperscript.

• https://htmx.org
• https://hyperscript.org
• https://tailwindcss.com
• https://flask.palletsprojects.com

Who

My name is cody, please feel free to reach out!

• web: codycollier.com
• email: cmcollier@gmail.com
• x/twitter: @cmcollier
• linkedin: codycollier