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		novocayn 74 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: I wrote a full text search engine in Go I’m learning the internals of FTS engines while building a vector database from scratch. Needed a solid FTS index, so I built one myself :) It ended up being a clean, reusable component, so I decided to carve it out into a standalone project The README is mostly notes from my Notion pages, glad you found it interesting!

n_u 74 days ago [–]

What are you building a vector database from scratch for?

novocayn 74 days ago | [–]

Mostly wanted a refresher on GPU accelerated indexes and Vector DB internals. And maybe along the way, build an easy on-ramp for folks who want to understand how these work under the hood

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