News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

Show HN: AI Paul Graham

https://www.paulgraham-nia.com/

I built an AI version of Paul Graham, fully powered by the Nia API.

* Nia gives coding agents accurate context by indexing entire codebases, documentation, and packages. It fixes hallucinations by letting agents retrieve real source information instead of guessing. Developers ship faster because AI can read and understand their actual project. This is a different use case of Nia but apparently it also works.

You can chat with it and ask any question because it has access to Nia’s knowledge base, which indexed all of his personal essays. The agent is able to call multiple tools that directly use Nia’s API:

• NiaWebSearch - searches the web • searchEssays - semantic search over all essays • browseEssays - shows the full tree of essays • listDirectory - lists essays in a path • readEssay - reads full essay content • grepEssays - regex pattern search • getSourceContent - retrieves full source by identifier

Models: anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5 moonshotai/kimi-k2-thinking xai/grok-4-fast-reasoning alibaba/qwen3-vl-thinking

It’s fully free and open source.

Try it: https://www.paulgraham-nia.com/ Code: https://github.com/nozomio-labs/paulgraham-ai

( 5 comments | on HN )
Re:Show HN: AI Paul Graham by bignet on Sunday December 07, 2025 @07:03AM (#46181142)
Is nia an open-source service that you can self host?
Re:Show HN: AI Paul Graham by arlanrakh on Sunday December 07, 2025 @02:19PM (#46184245)
u can self host mcp locally :)
Re:Show HN: AI Paul Graham by sgt on Sunday December 07, 2025 @04:30PM (#46185347)
Doesn't pg need to actually agree to this, seeing that his good name and reputation is being leveraged here?
Re:Show HN: AI Paul Graham by arlanrakh on Sunday December 07, 2025 @05:08PM (#46185716)
it's just using his essays as inspirations for others :)
Re:Show HN: AI Paul Graham by bhavikchavda on Monday December 08, 2025 @04:33AM (#46190254)
Claude credits are expired! Cann't use it.