Show HN: Mira – Search for files semantically – no exact filenames required
Mira is a local-first desktop application designed to enhance file searching capabilities. It allows users to search for files using plain English without needing exact filenames. The application features metadata search, content extraction, and semantic search powered by local embeddings.
- ▪Mira enables users to search files in plain English without requiring exact filenames.
- ▪The application supports metadata search, content extraction, and semantic search.
- ▪Mira processes files locally, ensuring that user data remains on their device.
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Story provenance
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Story provenance
Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
Record
| Original publisher | GitHub |
| Canonical URL | https://github.com/Heidar-An/Mira |
| Publication time | Thu, 28 May 2026 23:37:18 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-28T23:59:38.815Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-28T23:59:38.815Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | 8WsPkRQcGajL |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
Mira From Latin mīrāre - to look, to see, to behold. Mira is a local-first desktop application that turns your folders into a searchable, intelligent workspace. Search files in plain English - no exact filenames required. Install Download the latest macOS build from the GitHub Releases page. Open the .dmg and drag Mira into Applications. Because Mira is not yet notarized by Apple, macOS will show "Mira is damaged and can't be opened" on first launch. Remove the quarantine flag by running this once in Terminal: xattr -cr /Applications/Mira.app Launch Mira from Applications.
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at GitHub.