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Onyx AI
Company blog · onyx.app/blogaiprogramming
Onyx AI is the company blog at onyx.app, writing about ai and programming. Since 2025, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters link Onyx, an open-source workplace search and chat tool formerly called Danswer, mainly to compare it with other RAG and enterprise search products. The comments do not discuss its writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
The open-source AI enterprise search platform that helps teams find information across all company data.
Most-linked posts?
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-03-02
What Hacker News says?
How do you compare to Onyx? We've used it for some limited use cases, but one of the real challenges - and one I hope to see a lot of innovation on in the space - was permissioning. I see in another comment that you encourage each user to build their own dataset with their own permissions, but often this breaks for founders. If I have a Super Secret Personnel Planning Google Doc at a founder level, how can I be the…
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on “Launch HN: Airweave (YC X25) – Let agents search any app”Submitted Are file systems all you need? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionhttps://onyx.app/ This could be useful.
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on “We replaced RAG with a virtual filesystem for our AI documentation assistant”Submitted Self-Hosted LLMs Tier List as a story · 1 points
HN discussionHow does it compare to Onyx (rebranded from Danswer, with more chat focus, while Danswer was more RAG focus on company docs/comms)? - https://onyx.app/ - Their rebranded Onyx launch: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46045987 - Their orignal Danswer launch: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36667374
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on “Show HN: Omni – Open-source workplace search and chat, built on Postgres”Submitted The Enterprise Evaluation Framework for OpenClaw as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Frontier LLM Leaderboard as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Open Source LLM Tier List as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lessons from building the best Deep Research and how you can build better agents as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hacking OpenAI's Internet Search as a story · 1 points
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