For this use case, of finding related threads, I thought he wrote not special tools, but rather uses just
Even using algolia, I don't see a way to generate a list in this exact format.
I think ChrisMarshallNY is right, dang has access to eldritch powers.
the Glider HN app for Android shows related posts with high overlap to dang's list, so it must be possible for mere mortals after all.
It was really just a rhetorical joke, but I wrote an app that is a system, based on a custom backend and native frontend.
I wrote a special native management app, and often use that, to implement dashboard functionality, like the kind of thing that the HN mods do.
Yeah, I could, for example, feed the logs into an LLM, and get fancy reports, but it’s a lot easier to simply hit the charts button in the navbar, and view interactive graphs, customized exactly for my workflow.