Thread: Building a vector search engine that lets you choose precision at query time

Building a vector search engine that lets you choose precision at query time (clickhouse.com)

L 8 pts 3 comments by rrampage Nov 9, 2025 aidatabases AI / Machine Learning Data / Databases / Infrastructure thread

Building a Movie Similarity Search Engine with Vector Search in Memgraph (memgraph.com)

HN 3 pts 0 comments by taubek Dec 8, 2024 thread

We built a vector search engine that lets you choose precision at query time (clickhouse.com)

HN 4 pts 0 comments by soheilpro Oct 28, 2025 thread

We built a vector search engine that lets you choose precision at query time (clickhouse.com)

HN 4 pts 1 comments by ashvardanian Nov 8, 2025 thread

Building our fast search engine in Go (tamber.com)

L 3 pts 0 comments by zod000 Aug 30, 2013 go Programming (General)Data / Databases / Infrastructure thread

Google I/O 2014 talk: Building Sourcegraph, a large-scale code search engine in Go (sourcegraph.com)

L 7 pts 3 comments by sqs Jul 14, 2014 apigoprogrammingscalingweb Web Development Programming (General)Data / Databases / Infrastructure Productivity / Career / Business thread

Building a Decentralized BitTorrent Search Engine (blog.aurous.me)

L 14 pts 4 comments by andrewmd5 Aug 17, 2015 compsciprogramming Programming (General)Programming Languages / CS Theory Data / Databases / Infrastructure thread

Building a legacy search engine for a legacy protocol (blog.benjojo.co.uk)

L 17 pts 5 comments by inactive-user May 21, 2017 historical Data / Databases / Infrastructure Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Notes on Building Noise: a JSON Search Engine written in Rust (damienkatz.net)

L 13 pts 0 comments by sanxiyn May 26, 2017 rust Systems / Low-Level / OS Data / Databases / Infrastructure thread

Milvus: An Open Source Vector Similarity Search Engine (milvus.io)

L 2 pts 0 comments by sanxiyn Oct 29, 2020 programming Programming (General)Data / Databases / Infrastructure thread

Building a full-text search engine in 150 lines of Python code (bart.degoe.de)

L 31 pts 7 comments by bart Mar 25, 2021 python Programming (General)Programming Languages / CS Theory Data / Databases / Infrastructure thread

Qdrant: a vector similarity search engine (github.com)

L 6 pts 1 comments by sanxiyn May 13, 2021 rust Systems / Low-Level / OS Data / Databases / Infrastructure thread

Image Stacks and iPhone Racks - Building an Internet Scale Meme Search Engine (findthatmeme.com)

L 28 pts 12 comments by lorn Jan 11, 2023 apihardwaremobileswift Programming (General)Data / Databases / Infrastructure Apple / macOS / iOS Maker / DIY / Hardware Internet / Digital Culture thread

This guy builds an iPhone cluster to do OCR on memes, incredible.

Engineering the world’s most complex office building, in Antwerp, Belgium (youtube.com)

~ 5 pts 0 comments by unknown Mar 15, 2023 ~engineering Maker / DIY / Hardware thread

Building a full-text search engine in Elixir (culttt.com)

L 6 pts 0 comments by friendlysock Mar 22, 2023 elixir Programming Languages / CS Theory Data / Databases / Infrastructure thread

Building a cathedral without science or mathematics: The engineering method explained (youtube.com)

~ 4 pts 5 comments by unknown May 10, 2023 ~engineering Science / Math / Physics Maker / DIY / Hardware thread

Qdrant Vector Search Engine is Written in Rust: Here's why (qdrant.tech)

L 22 pts 14 comments by llogiq May 16, 2023 airust AI / Machine Learning Systems / Low-Level / OS Data / Databases / Infrastructure thread

How I think about LLM prompt engineering: Prompting as searching through a space of vector programs

~ 11 pts 6 comments by unknown Oct 10, 2023 ~comp AI / Machine Learning Programming (General) thread

Building a highly-available search engine using SQLite (philipotoole.com)

L 13 pts 3 comments by otoolep Apr 26, 2024 databasesdistributed Data / Databases / Infrastructure thread

Building a hum-to-search song recognition app using MIDI and vector search (datastax.com)

HN 22 pts 3 comments by crabasa Aug 28, 2024 thread

Quora Engineering on Qdrant: Building Embedding Search at Quora (quoraengineering.quora.com)

HN 3 pts 1 comments by danielsgriffin Sep 23, 2024 AI / Machine Learning thread

Building an image search engine on Postgres (tembo.io)

HN 3 pts 0 comments by samaysharma Sep 24, 2024 Data / Databases / Infrastructure thread

Building an image search engine on Postgres (tembo.io)

HN 1 pts 0 comments by samaysharma Sep 25, 2024 Data / Databases / Infrastructure thread

Building an image search engine on Postgres (tembo.io)

HN 2 pts 0 comments by samaysharma Oct 3, 2024 Data / Databases / Infrastructure thread

Building graph vector search using VectorETL (medium.com)

HN 1 pts 0 comments by jide_tracc Oct 8, 2024 thread

Nixiesearch: Running Lucene over S3, and why we're building a new search engine (nixiesearch.substack.com)

HN 128 pts 76 comments by shutty Oct 10, 2024 thread

From Vector Search to Entities: Evolving Zettelgardens Connection Engine (nsavage.substack.com)

HN 3 pts 0 comments by nsavage Dec 2, 2024 thread

Benefits and Steps of External Centroids Building in Vector Search IVF (blog.pgvecto.rs)

HN 2 pts 0 comments by gaocegege Dec 10, 2024 thread

Ask HN: Tips on building a search engine?

HN 9 pts 10 comments by vednig Jan 4, 2025 thread

I'm recently thinking about building my own search engine from scratch that can be deployed over a cheap hardware like RPi, or an old android phone.<p>If I were to start today what are some good resources to build a search engine like Google (including in terms of quality, reliability and follo...

Building a search engine: fast information retrieval and no ads UX (lexy.uno)

HN 2 pts 1 comments by deniscartin Jan 9, 2025 Design / UX / Visualization thread