Stories by softwaredoug

Vector Search the Hard Way

Billion-scale vector search with Vespa – part one (2021)

Ask HN: Will Amazon experience a significant brain drain due to RTO?

TDD: Where did it all go wrong? (2017) [video]

Do we think about vector storage wrong?

Vector Search with OpenAI Embeddings: Lucene Is All You Need

Fast Multidimensional Matrix Multiplication on CPU from Scratch

LSH in NumPy C for some fun but no profit

Why Search Orgs Fail

Pure Python implementation of LSH nearest neighbors search

Where does bad code come from? [video]

The only unbreakable law [video] (2022)

Popcount CPU instruction (2019)

Pure Bash Bible (2018)

Ask HN: How do you incrementally stage PRs for a larger feature in Git/GitHub?

Ask HN: Bulk Download Voicemails?

The Wrong Feedback Loop

Show HN: Attend – preserve focus by discouraging task switching in OSX

Ask HN: What apps do you use to focus?

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