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SurfSense
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MODSetter / SurfSense

SurfSense

Air-gapped, privacy-focused, open-source NotebookLM alternative. AI agent that researches, transforms, and edits your documents. Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/ejRNvftDp9

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9Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
16.9KGitHub stars
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What it is

Air-gapped, privacy-focused, open-source NotebookLM alternative. AI agent that researches, transforms, and edits your documents. Join our Discord: https://discord.gg/ejRNvftDp9

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Where it is used

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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, 1:49:46 PM UTC.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by week9 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2024-08-13 09:14:48 UTC to 2024-11-25 01:58:43 UTC. Weeks start Monday, UTC.

0123452024-08-12 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-08-19 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 2 submissions, 3 commentsAug 122024-08-19 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-08-26 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2024-08-26 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-09-02 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-09-02 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-09-09 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-09-09 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-09-16 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-09-16 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-09-23 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-09-23 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-09-30 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-09-30 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-10-07 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsSep 302024-10-07 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-10-14 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-10-14 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-10-21 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-10-21 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-10-28 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-10-28 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-11-04 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2024-11-04 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-11-11 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-11-11 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-11-18 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2024-11-18 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-11-25 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-11-25 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-12-02 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsNov 25

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

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
Aug 122024-08-12 00:00:00 UTC2024-08-19 00:00:00 UTC523
Aug 192024-08-19 00:00:00 UTC2024-08-26 00:00:00 UTC110
Aug 262024-08-26 00:00:00 UTC2024-09-02 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 22024-09-02 00:00:00 UTC2024-09-09 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 92024-09-09 00:00:00 UTC2024-09-16 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 162024-09-16 00:00:00 UTC2024-09-23 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 232024-09-23 00:00:00 UTC2024-09-30 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 302024-09-30 00:00:00 UTC2024-10-07 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 72024-10-07 00:00:00 UTC2024-10-14 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 142024-10-14 00:00:00 UTC2024-10-21 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 212024-10-21 00:00:00 UTC2024-10-28 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 282024-10-28 00:00:00 UTC2024-11-04 00:00:00 UTC110
Nov 42024-11-04 00:00:00 UTC2024-11-11 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 112024-11-11 00:00:00 UTC2024-11-18 00:00:00 UTC110
Nov 182024-11-18 00:00:00 UTC2024-11-25 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 252024-11-25 00:00:00 UTC2024-12-02 00:00:00 UTC110

What Hacker News says

9 sources
HNSetter·Nov 25, 2024Submission

Show HN: A Personal NotebookLM and Perplexity-Like AI Assistant with Privacy

While tools like NotebookLM and Perplexity are impressive and highly effective for conducting research on any topic, imagine having both at your disposal with complete privacy control. That's exactly what SurfSense offers. With SurfSense, you can create your own knowledge base for research, similar to NotebookLM, or easily research the web just like Perplexity. SurfSense also includes an effective cross-browser extension to directly save dynamic content bookmarks, such as social media chats, calendar invites, important emails, tutorials, recipes, and more to your SurfSense knowledge base. Now, you’ll never forget anything and can easily research everything.
1 points · Open discussion
Hello all, For the last few weeks I have been building an advanced AI management solution for anything you see on the internet. You can save any dynamic content such as calendar invites, emails, social media chats and anything available on the internet to SurfSense and get way more meaningful insights than plain saving content. You can see your important mails, invites, chats & about any content you save through SurfSense chat. Give it a try at https://github.com/MODSetter/SurfSense and let me know your initial thoughts.
In [dead]
So I just recently tried to solve a problem that I face and released its code as an Open Source project. I was really fascinated by Knowledge Graphs so came up with this : https://github.com/MODSetter/SurfSense Basic GraphRAG is good but still leaves a lot to be desired. In the coming months I will try to perfect it. I would really like the feedback of Hacker News community. I plan to implement some techniques from Microsoft GraphRAG paper. Lets see how it goes.
In SurfSense Knowledge Graph Brain for Your Web Browsing Sessions
When I’m browsing the internet, I tend to save a ton of content—but remembering when and what I saved? Is hard to remember! That’s where SurfSense comes in. SurfSense is like a Knowledge Graph Brain for anything you see on the World Wide Web. Now, you’ll never forget any browsing session. Just ask your personal knowledge base anything about your saved content, and voilà—instant recall! Check it out at https://github.com/MODSetter/SurfSense and leave your initial thoughts.
In SurfSense a Knowledge Graph Brain for World Wide Web Surfers

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