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I built this site to help researchers and public to find US gov publicly available data using my open-source search system. The site runs on 2 vCPU cloud instance. For detailed tec…

This, in fact, is already happening. Elderly are getting duped by scammers using voices of their relatives/children.

Ironically, one of the thing that makes written word by AI recognizable as AI is that it's too perfect. Too polished. Now think about speech patterns, they are way more than voice …

I think of it this way. LLMs suppose to be good at generating text/writing, right? Well, they are not very good at it. They generate plausible content that superficially makes sens…

I thought that AI would at least be good at 2 things: writing (text) and doing UI. It's not good at either. Text it generated reads like slop and UI it creates looks like slop. The…

Sorry that I keep commenting on my own post, but I've split the Amgix Now release announcement from the benchmarks. Benchmarks now live in a separate post and include a summary in …

It turns out I had some DNS issues. It should be up now. Sorry.

Just to add a bit more context. These are pretty detailed benchmarks showing relevance and latencies of the search engines across 4 different datasets. These are the sort of number…

That's odd. Appears to be working for me. Here is the link directly to the benchmarks section: https://amgix.io/blog/2026/05/14/release-now-v0.1.1/#benchma...

Even if you have no interest in Amgix Now, the side-by-side benchmarks of Typesense, Meilisearch, and Elasticsearch on the same hardware and datasets may be useful on their own. Ha…

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Hi HN, I’ve been working in development, systems, and ops (SRE), and kept running into the same problem: adding good search to an application turns into building and operating a wh…

Fair enough if it reads that way. I was trying to describe that interacting with AI kinda makes you feel constantly uncertain about stuff it spits out.

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