Using Vectorize to build an unreasonably good search engine in 160 lines of code • Hacker News Board

Re: Using Vectorize to build an unreasonably good search engine in 160 lines of code

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Post by amelius » Tue, Jun 04, 2024, 12:32 PM UTC

Unreasonably good maybe. But then you'll hit a brick wall when you want something slightly better.

Re: Using Vectorize to build an unreasonably good search engine in 160 lines of code

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Post by linsomniac » Tue, Jun 04, 2024, 12:33 PM UTC

itronitron wrote: post #2

is there an easy way to disable the multiplayer cursors on that page?

Oh... Is that why the page is suffering from the hug of death...?

Re: Using Vectorize to build an unreasonably good search engine in 160 lines of code

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Post by infecto » Tue, Jun 04, 2024, 12:37 PM UTC

llm_trw wrote: post #12

I had a discussion at work today about completely replacing the old search engine with vector embeddings because they work so well. I think google needs to be very afraid in the coming few years because this use of AI is relatively cheap to run, simple to deploy and the models are small enough that you can build one customized based on your personal ranking of several thousand pieces of text.

1) They work really well but not in all the cases and most likely the better approach is some augment between the two. OpenSearch/Elasticsearch already include hybrid approaches.

2) The moat is having a snapshot of the web and being able to search through it efficiently.

Re: Using Vectorize to build an unreasonably good search engine in 160 lines of code

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Post by notnaut » Tue, Jun 04, 2024, 12:43 PM UTC

pelagicAustral wrote: post #6

itronitron wrote: post #2

is there an easy way to disable the multiplayer cursors on that page?

What can compel a person to think something like this could be a good idea?

I bet there were a few people who said something like that the first time someone made music

Re: Using Vectorize to build an unreasonably good search engine in 160 lines of code

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Post by aruggirello » Tue, Jun 04, 2024, 12:48 PM UTC

itronitron wrote: post #2

is there an easy way to disable the multiplayer cursors on that page?

Why, just patch the page to add the famous Cursor Monster! https://simurai.com/projects/cursor-monster/

Re: Using Vectorize to build an unreasonably good search engine in 160 lines of code

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Jun 04, 2024, 1:10 PM UTC

itronitron wrote: post #2

is there an easy way to disable the multiplayer cursors on that page?

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Re: Using Vectorize to build an unreasonably good search engine in 160 lines of code

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Jun 04, 2024, 1:10 PM UTC

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Re: Using Vectorize to build an unreasonably good search engine in 160 lines of code

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Post by Semaphor » Tue, Jun 04, 2024, 1:16 PM UTC

itronitron wrote: post #2

is there an easy way to disable the multiplayer cursors on that page?

Block this: https://cursor-party.labs.partykit.dev/cursors.js

Unlike the recently frontpaged page, this one loads the annoying effects as 3rd party JS, so uMatrix automatically blocked it for me.