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trieve

All-in-one platform for search, recommendations, RAG, and analytics offered via API

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All-in-one platform for search, recommendations, RAG, and analytics offered via API

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 11:56:56 AM UTC.

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Observed mentions: 2023-09-15 21:44:22 UTC to 2025-09-03 17:02:12 UTC.

0122023-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 commentsSep 20232023-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2023-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments2024-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments2024-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsSep 20242024-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2024-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2024-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2025-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsSep 2025

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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Sep 20232023-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-10-01 00:00:00 UTC211
Oct 20232023-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-11-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 20232023-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-12-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Dec 20232023-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
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Feb 20242024-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-03-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 20242024-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-04-01 00:00:00 UTC211
Apr 20242024-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-05-01 00:00:00 UTC000
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Jun 20242024-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-07-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 20242024-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-08-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 20242024-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-09-01 00:00:00 UTC211
Sep 20242024-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-10-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 20242024-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-11-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Nov 20242024-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-12-01 00:00:00 UTC110
Dec 20242024-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
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Jun 20252025-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-07-01 00:00:00 UTC110
Jul 20252025-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-08-01 00:00:00 UTC000
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Sep 20252025-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-10-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

11 sources
skeptrune·Sep 3, 2025
Keystatic[1] is awesome. It's local-first by default and made for static site builds, so you can keep costs low by not using a server. I've used it alongside Astro for both my personal blog[2] and two company sites[3][4]. It's worked amazingly well each time. [1] https://keystatic.com/ [2] https://github.com/skeptrunedev/personal-site [3] https://github.com/devflowinc/trieve/tree/main/website [4] https://github.com/patroninc/patron/tree/main/website
In Ask HN: Looking for headless CMS recommendation
skeptrune·Jun 18, 2025Submission

Show HN: Trieve CLI – Terminal-based LLM agent loop with search tool for PDFs

Hi HN, I built a CLI for uploading documents and querying them with an LLM agent that uses search tools rather than stuffing everything into the context window. I recorded a demo using the CrossFit 2025 rulebook that shows how this approach compares to traditional RAG and direct context injection[1]. The core insight is that LLMs running in loops with tool access are unreasonably effective at this kind of knowledge retrieval task[2]. Instead of hoping the right chunks make it into your context, the agent can iteratively search, refine queries, and reason about what it finds. The CLI handles the full workflow: ```bash trieve upload ./document.pdf trieve ask "What are the key findings?" ``` You can customize the RAG behavior, check upload status, and the responses stream back with expandable source references. I really enjoy having this wor
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kflow available in the terminal and I'm curious if others find this paradigm as compelling as I do. Considering adding more commands and customization options if there's interest. The tool is free for up to 1k document chunks. Source code is on GitHub[3] and available via npm[4]. Would love any feedback on the approach or CLI design! [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAV-esDsRUk [2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43998472 [3]: https://github.com/devflowinc/trieve/blob/main/clients/cli/i... [4]: https://www.npmjs.com/package/trieve-cli
35 points · Open discussion
skeptrune·Nov 21, 2024Submission

Show HN: PDF2MD – Rust+Redis+ClickHouse+VLLM conversion pipeline for PDFs

If you just want to use it, try here - https://pdf2md.trieve.ai . I think the LLM's are astoundingly good at converting complex powerpoint style infographics. I wouldn't normally think folks on HN would find this interesting as the general concept has been posted about already in the past few months. We were heavily inspired by Zerox[1]. However, the stack we went with was fun and over-engineered which is more likely to create interesting discussion. We use all the same tools at Trieve (our main product), but wanted to see if they would be a good fit for something that needed to get built in a tighter timeline and we think they were! Took us 2 weeks to get this setup end-to-end and it's by no means complete (see roadmap in linked README). However, it's cool that a relatively cookie cutter web service like this can be created with pure ope
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n-source dependencies and non-standard Rust tooling so quickly. Rust won't kill your startup! - Minijinja templates for the UI[2] - PDFObject for doc display in-browser[3] - actix/actix-web HTTP server framework[4] - Redis queue macro for worker async processing[5] - Clickhouse for task storage[6] - chm CLI to handle Clickhouse migrations[7] - MinIO S3 for object storage[8] [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41048194 [2]: https://github.com/mitsuhiko/minijinja [3]: https://github.com/pipwerks/pdfobject [4]: https://github.com/actix/actix-web [5]: https://github.com/devflowinc/trieve/blob/main/pdf2md/server... [6]: https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse [7]: https://docs.rs/chm/latest/chm/index.html [8]: https://github.com/minio/minio
13 points · Open discussion
skeptrune·Oct 6, 2024
It really doesn't, actix is already there. Recently built my startup code over the past couple years with Actix and it had literally everything we needed easily. We just need more documentation and reference code bases demonstrating how to do these things. Rust devs tend to be fairly advanced and seemingly don't write enough docs or shares. >Routing/handlers Actix has it. >Templates Minijinja or liquid-rust[1] >Static file serving actix-files[2] >Logins Actix with oidccore is fantastic and easy[3] >Permissions Actix FromRequest is literally perfect. We have perm levels (admin, owner) and per-route perms for more fine-grained control.[4] > Database interface Diesel with diesel_async for connection pooling has been flawless at scale. > Admin tooling We didn't do this, but it would be simple with a bin/load-data.rs file that runs via a docke
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r start command or tmuxp pane. > Hot reloading Cargo watch is getting deprecated, but was great. Bacon and and Watchexec are fully qualified successors. CSS watch systems work with the templates already same way as they do for SPAs. > Background tasks Make a bin/worker.ts file which defines a single binary and then use redis or another queing sytem to communicate between the worker and core server. We loaded all of HN (40M docs) into a search index with this approach and it was easy. > Monitoring/observability There's a decent story here with structured logging. Zero to production in Rust has a good chapter on it (2020) [5]. Lots of progress has been made since and exposing prom metrics endpoint is straightforward [6]. Sentry support is also decent and they sponsor actix. > Caching Imo, the story with Redis + actix is fine. We do this with our auth middleware to reduce latency on that operation since it happens with every route and I think it's smooth with FromRequest. > Emails and other notifications What's wrong with SMTP? Plus, Keycloak will handle your password reset infra out of the box. SDKs here could be better, but the APIs are fine and not too bad to do with Reqwest yourself. > Deployment tooling + CSS/JS bundling Imo, both of these things are the same as with other languages. Rust could use more documentation, but I don't think there's anything making it particularly hard to use. [1]: https://github.com/devflowinc/hn-search-RAG/blob/main/actix-... [2]: https://github.com/devflowinc/hn-search-RAG/blob/main/actix-... [3]: https://github.com/devflowinc/trieve/blob/main/server/src/ha... [4]: https://github.com/devflowinc/trieve/blob/main/server/src/ha... [5]: https://www.lpalmieri.com/posts/2020-09-27-zero-to-productio... [6]: https://romankudryashov.com/blog/2021/11/monitoring-rust-web...
In Rust needs a web framework
skeptrune·Aug 29, 2024
It is 100% not made up to make our SaaS more attractive. Our shared SaaS only goes up to 1M vectors, so it's not like it's cheaper anyways. We would currently charge the raw cost + ~20% for us to host something at HN scale. Almost none of the cost is due to serving the traffic; it's all just rented high mem compute instances and GPUs. We could serve ~1k QPS on the current infra. Our terraform and helm are public in the repo - https://github.com/devflowinc/trieve/tree/main/terraform/gcl...
In Show HN: A discovery-focused search engine for Hacker News
skeptrune·Aug 29, 2024Submission

Show HN: A discovery-focused search engine for Hacker News

We (Nick, Dens, Denzell, Fede, Drew, Aaryan, and Daniel) have been building HN Discovery, a discovery-focused search engine for Hacker News, in our spare time for the past 6 months and are excited to show it! It adds the following features relative to the existing keyword search interface and preserves the existing ones: - no-JS version (hnnojs.trieve.ai) - site:{required_site} and site:{negated-site} filters - public analytics - LLM generated query suggestions based on random stories - recommendations - dense vector semantic search - SPLADE fulltext search - RAG AI chat - order by descendant count client code (FOSS self-hostable) - https://github.com/devflowinc/trieve-hn-discovery engine code (BSL source-available) - https://github.com/devflowinc/trieve There is an extended about page with detailed information on features, how much it co
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sts to run, etc. here - https://hn.trieve.ai/about.
193 points · Open discussion
wokwokwok·Mar 11, 2024
If you (like me) look at this and were like ???, a more compelling summary is perhaps: > Trieve sets itself apart by being BSL-licensed self-hostable and built in public at github.com/devflowinc/trieve whereas Algolia is fully closed … At Trieve, we are hard at work building these features to reach full parity with Algolia (0) Or this long winded post about using it to implement search (1)… Long story short, like Algolia. The rustiness of the project, I’m not sure I see the significance of; it has a bunch of very heavy non rust dependencies. [0] - https://trieve.ai/trieve-vs-algolia [1] - https://trieve.ai/building-search-for-yc-company-directory
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