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Captured Aug 20, 2026, 07:04 AM UTC — 20 signals across 6 pillars, 6 source networks. Scores weighted by 7 terms: keyword relevance, artifact bonus, cross-source corroboration, discovery corroboration, star velocity, engagement, recency.

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Minna: local doc search with grounded LLM
Minna indexes documents into a hybrid vector-plus-full-text store with citation-grounded chat, but requires macOS 26 beta and ships PostHog telemetry on…

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Top signal featured — scores combine keyword relevance (×3 per pillar hit), artifact bonus (+3 for a citable artifact host), cross-source corroboration (+3 per extra source), discovery corroboration (+0–2), star velocity (+0–8), engagement (+0–4, capped), recency (+8 down to −3). Remaining signals grid below, filterable by pillar.

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Top signal · Score 22Hacker News· 6d ago

Minna – On-device semantic search across your own documents (macOS)

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Minna: local doc search with grounded LLM

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Minna – On-device semantic search across your own documents (macOS)

MCP app for Android, drive apps via AI (no root, PII redacted locally)

Qwen3.8 27B ABLITERATED GGUF — Blackfrost-AI

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