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bloop.ai
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bloop.ai is the company blog at bloop.ai, writing about ai and programming. Since 2021, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times, most often “Bloop – AI Legacy Code Modernisation”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link bloop.ai, an AI code search desktop app for local repos that combines natural-language search, regex matching and code navigation. Commenters mention it as a tool for asking questions about code.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Bloop – AI Legacy Code Modernisation3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-03-12
- AI Killed the AI Engineer3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-06-02
- /2 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2021-11-01
- Building an AI Agent (To Modernise COBOL)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-06-17
- GPU Embedding with GGML2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-10-12
What Hacker News says?
bloop (YC S21) | AI/ML Engineer, Compiler Engineer | Full-time | London (UK) | Visa Sponsor At bloop ( https://www.bloop.ai ) we modernise legacy code, translating old languages to new(er) ones. Existing translators produce code that is unreadable, and the alternative of rewriting an old system from scratch in a new language is unfeasibly expensive for many projects. We're developing a new approach that uses LLMs to…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2024)”Submitted How well can LLMs write COBOL? as a story · 106 points
HN discussionbloop (YC S21) | https://bloop.ai/ | Senior Software Engineer (Python) | London | Full Time At bloop, we’re building an in-IDE search engine to make it easy for software engineers to find and share code. Today developers spend too much time scouring library documentation and open-source repositories looking for useful code. Our neural search engine automates this menial process, freeing up time for developers to foc…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2022)”Submitted GPU Embedding with GGML as a story · 6 points
HN discussionbloop (YC S21) | https://bloop.ai/ | ML Engineer, Sr. Software Engineer | London / REMOTE | Full Time At bloop, we’re building an in-IDE code search engine to make it easy for software engineers to find and share code. Today developers spend too much time scouring library documentation and open-source repositories looking for useful code. Our neural search engine automates this menial process, freeing up time for de…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2021)”Submitted Building an AI Agent (To Modernise COBOL) as a story · 5 points
HN discussionbloop (YC S21) | https://bloop.ai/ | ML Engineer | London | Full Time At bloop, we’re building an in-IDE code search engine to make it easy for software engineers to find and share code. Today developers spend too much time scouring library documentation and open-source repositories looking for useful code. Our neural search engine automates this menial process, freeing up time for developers to focus on the most en…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2022)”Submitted AI Killed the AI Engineer as a story · 3 points
HN discussionA couple of projects you can look at that might be good substitutes for what you’re asking for - https://www.codecomplete.ai/ - current YC batch, looks very promising and sounds like this could be a big part of their USP https://www.tabnine.com/ - the OG code completion, mentions personalised models on their enterprise plan It’s also on the roadmap for us (AI code search not completions) https://bloop.ai/
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on “Ask HN: Why doesn't Copilot for Business use your organization's actual repos?”Submitted AI Killed the AI Engineer as a story · 3 points
HN discussionLouis one of the cofounders here, happy to answer questions. We're combining AI code search, regex matching and precise code navigation in a lightweight desktop app that you can use with your local repos. We just released v0.2 yesterday which is the first proper release of the natural language search. We're using a bunch of new things under the hood, but the highlights are: Tantivy, Tauri, qdrant and Anthropic's Cla…
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on “BloopAI/bloop: bloop is a fast code search engine written in Rust”Submitted Modernising Legacy Code with AI as a story · 3 points
HN discussionMy tool aider let's you ask questions about a git repo, as well as letting you edit the code. Here's an example of exploring and then modifying an open source js repo: https://aider.chat/examples/2048-game.html Here's an article about how it does that: https://aider.chat/docs/ctags.html I think bloop is also good for searching and Q&A against code. I'm not sure if it will let you edit/modify the code though. https:/…
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on “Show HN: Superblocks AI – AI coding assistant for internal apps”Submitted AI Killed the AI Engineer as a story · 2 points
HN discussionWe've invested a lot into helping LLMs reason and explain large codebases. We use a hybrid approach of local models for semantic search and a mix of OpenAI and Anthropic's models for language output and summarisation. We're two years in but everything still feels super early given how quickly the fundamentals are improving. Would love your feedback - https://bloop.ai
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on “ChatGPT's API Is So Good and Cheap, It Makes Most Text Generating AI Obsolete”Submitted Building an AI Agent (To Modernise COBOL) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Speeding up embedding 13x with the GPU and ggml as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bloop – AI Legacy Code Modernisation as a story · 1 points
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