Hacker News with Generative AI: Search

GitHub introduces sub-issues, issue types and advanced search (github.blog)
Following our opt-in preview last year, we are excited to release sub-issues, issue types and advanced search for issues to everyone! 🎉
Software, GitHub, Project Management, Search
39 points by julius-fx 2 days ago | 13 comments
Working with The Associated Press to provide fresh results for the Gemini app (google)
The AP will now deliver a feed of real-time information to help enhance the usefulness of results displayed in the Gemini app.
News, Real-Time Information, AI, Search, Gemini App
87 points by alexrustic 2 days ago | 63 comments
In a cold day of late winter a new search experience came out (lexy.uno)
What can I help you find?
Search, User Experience, Technology
20 points by deniscartin 10 days ago | 26 comments
Magna: Embedding similarity search tool for searching within large documents (github.com/yousef-rafat)
Magna is an AI-powered embedding similarity search tool for searching within large documents.
Artificial Intelligence, Search, Software
14 points by yousef_g 12 days ago | 0 comments
Show HN: Podcast API (listennotes.com)
The Best Podcast API for Search, Directory, and Insights
Podcast APIs, Software, Search, Directory, Insights
7 points by wenbin 23 days ago | 0 comments
Hoarder: Self-hostable bookmark-everything app (github.com/hoarder-app)
A self-hostable bookmark-everything app (links, notes and images) with AI-based automatic tagging and full text search
Self-Hosting, Bookmarking, AI, Search, Web Development
475 points by thunderbong 27 days ago | 106 comments
Is ChatGPT Good at Search? (openread.academy)
Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated a remarkable ability to generalize zero-shot to various language-related tasks.
Search, Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI
12 points by eileen-stars 30 days ago | 12 comments
Kagi Teams (kagi.com)
To satisfy the growing demand for our services in work environments, we are launching Kagi for Teams - bringing our unmatched quality, privacy-focused search and AI tools to businesses worldwide.
Business, Search, Privacy, AI
182 points by icar 43 days ago | 165 comments
Cascading retrieval: Unifying dense and sparse vector embeddings with reranking (pinecone.io)
We're excited to announce new cascading retrieval capabilities, further advancing AI search applications. These enhancements make it seamless to combine dense retrieval, sparse retrieval, and reranking into a unified search pipeline, delivering unparalleled precision, performance, and ease of use. With these updates, Pinecone solidifies its position as the most comprehensive platform for modern AI retrieval.
AI, Search, Vector Embeddings, Reranking, Machine Learning
3 points by bobismyuncle 46 days ago | 0 comments
Show HN: SeekStorm – open-source sub-millisecond search in Rust (github.com/SeekStorm)
SeekStorm is an open-source, sub-millisecond full-text search library & multi-tenancy server implemented in Rust.
Open Source, Rust, Search, Databases, Software
245 points by wolfgarbe 47 days ago | 61 comments
SQLite Index Visualization: Search (mrsuh.com)
In the previous post, I explained how to extract data from SQLite Indexes and make it visual. This time, I'll try to show what a search inside an Index looks like.
SQLite, Databases, Visualization, Search
15 points by mrsuh 47 days ago | 0 comments
Show HN: Vicinity – Fast, Lightweight Nearest Neighbors with Flexible Back Ends (github.com/MinishLab)
Vicinity is a light-weight, low-dependency vector store. It provides a simple and intuitive interface for nearest neighbor search, with support for different backends and evaluation.
Software, Machine Learning, Data Structures, Search
57 points by Pringled 48 days ago | 8 comments
Show HN: SF Search – iPhone app for searching SF Symbols by drawing (apple.com)
SF Search lets you draw to search SF Symbols easily.
Mobile Apps, Design, iOS, User Interfaces, Search
3 points by luisfl 51 days ago | 0 comments
Code Search – Grep by Vercel (grep.app)
Code Search, Software, Tools, Search, Web Development
11 points by djoldman 58 days ago | 6 comments
Gemini API and Google AI Studio Now Offer Grounding with Google Search (googleblog.com)
Today, we are rolling out Grounding with Google Search in Google AI Studio and the Gemini API, enabling developers to get more accurate and fresh responses from the Gemini models aided by Google Search. In addition to more accurate responses, the model returns grounding sources (in-line supporting links) and Search Suggestions that point users to the search results corresponding to the grounded response.
Generative AI, Search, APIs
28 points by illnewsthat 78 days ago | 4 comments
Bridging Search and Recommendation in Generative Retrieval (dl.acm.org)
Generative retrieval for search and recommendation is a promising paradigm for retrieving items, offering an alternative to traditional methods that depend on external indexes and nearest-neighbor searches.
Generative AI, Search, Recommendation, Information Retrieval
23 points by saeedesmaili 83 days ago | 0 comments
Show HN: Jist searches JSON 3x faster than jq (github.com/adelamodwala)
jist attempts to find the complete JSON value (string, number, bool, or JSON object) for a given search key.
JSON, Software, Tools, Search
11 points by adelamodwala1 84 days ago | 0 comments
Requiem for Raghavan (wheresyoured.at)
Last week, Prabhakar Raghavan was relieved of duty as Senior Vice President of Search, becoming Google's "Chief Technologist."
Google, Search, Technology, Leadership
14 points by croes 88 days ago | 6 comments
Google replaces executive in charge of Search and advertising (techcrunch.com)
Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced on Thursday that Prabhakar Raghavan, the executive in charge of the company’s search engine and ads products, is leaving his role.
Google, Search, Advertising, Leadership Changes, Business
14 points by arromatic 92 days ago | 18 comments
Show HN: Self-Hostable Algolia DocSearch Replacement (github.com/fastrepl)
🐤 Canary is modern Algolia DocSearch replacement.
Software, Search, Open Source, Documentation
111 points by yujonglee 98 days ago | 42 comments
Regular expression search with suffix arrays (2015) (nelhage.com)
Back in January of 2012, Russ Cox posted an excellent blog post detailing how Google Code Search had worked, using a trigram index.
Regular expressions, Algorithms, Computer Science, Search
27 points by intrepidsoldier 98 days ago | 3 comments
Putting a full power search engine in Ecto (moosie.us)
ParadeDB is a set of extensions that add pretty amazing search and analytics features to Postgres. In particular, ParadeDB embeds Tantivy as an extension via pgrx.
Databases, Search, Postgres, Ecto
144 points by philippemnoel 100 days ago | 25 comments
Show HN: Okbookmarks – A Search focussed Bookmark Manager (okbookmarks.com)
Add a URL about anything, then whenever you have a query about something just search for it!
Search, Bookmarking, Tools, Productivity
8 points by purple_wow 103 days ago | 9 comments
Show HN: I Made TabDock–Organize Tabs,Kbar,and Searchbar Commands in the Browser (tabdock.app)
Transform your windows into dashboards that you can access anytime, anywhere.
Browser Extensions, Productivity, User Interface, Web Development, Search
8 points by intAngel 120 days ago | 4 comments
Show HN: Selectric – macOS Search for Gmail, Outlook, Drive, Slack (selectric.io)
Spend less time hunting with search that actually works!
Productivity, Search, Email, macOS, Collaboration Tools
65 points by adityawasudeo 122 days ago | 62 comments
What if GitHub had vector search? (manticoresearch.com)
GitHub’s search function can sometimes struggle, especially when you try to search by asking a direct question. This approach often leads to unrelated results, which can be frustrating. This issue is more noticeable when searching through issues or pull requests, where the details really matter.
GitHub, Search, Software Development, Open Source
5 points by snikolaev 122 days ago | 2 comments
Hybrid Search with PostgreSQL and Pgvector (jkatz05.com)
A key metric when evaluating vector similarity search algorithms is “recall” - which measures the relevancy of the returned search results.
Database, Search, PostgreSQL, Vector Search, Algorithms
35 points by samwillis 122 days ago | 1 comments
Today AWS Transferred OpenSearch to Linux Foundation (linuxfoundation.org)
AWS transfers OpenSearch to the Linux Foundation to support a vendor-neutral community for search, analytics, observability, and vector database software.
Open Source, Cloud Computing, Search, Analytics, Linux Foundation
4 points by sahebjot 122 days ago | 1 comments
Ugrep: A more powerful, ultra fast, user-friendly, compatible grep (github.com/Genivia)
NEW ugrep 6.5: a more powerful, ultra fast, user-friendly, compatible grep. Includes a TUI, Google-like Boolean search with AND/OR/NOT, fuzzy search, hexdumps, searches (nested) archives (zip, 7z, tar, pax, cpio), compressed files (gz, Z, bz2, lzma, xz, lz4, zstd, brotli), pdfs, docs, and more
Software, Search, Text Processing
6 points by charlieirish 123 days ago | 1 comments
PGVector's Missing Features (trieve.ai)
PGVector offers infrastructure simplicity at the cost of missing some key features desireable in search solutions. We explain what those are in this blog.
Open Source, Search, Vector Databases
51 points by skeptrune 126 days ago | 11 comments