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nmslib
hnswlib
C++2018–2024
nmslib / hnswlib

hnswlib

Header-only C++/python library for fast approximate nearest neighbors

10Distinct people
12Mentions
1Explicit recommenders
5.4KGitHub stars
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What it is

Header-only C++/python library for fast approximate nearest neighbors

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https://github.com/nmslib/hnswlib Used it to index 40M text snippets in the legal domain. Allows incremental adding. I love how it just works. You know, doesn’t ANNOY me or…

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 6:59:22 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year12 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2018-11-20 11:24:36 UTC to 2024-05-02 16:55:34 UTC.

0123452018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20182019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments20212022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 1 submissions, 4 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments2024

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC514
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211

What Hacker News says

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zcesur·May 2, 2024Submission

Show HN: I built vector search for COSS podcasts & livestreams

Hey HN! I built COSSgpt using videos from the Open Source Founder Podcast [1] and livestreams from COSS Office Hours [2][3] I transcribed the VODs using Whisper and vectorized fixed-size segments from the transcripts with MPNet on Replicate GPUs. I made these segments overlap a little to prevent semantic meaning being lost inbetween segments Then I indexed the vectors using HNSWLib in-memory vectorstore [4] and persisted the entire vectorstore into Tigris object storage [5] to cache multimedia and vectors across all Fly.io regions I built the app in Elixir, almost entirely server-side rendered with minimal diffs sent to the client over WebSockets using Phoenix LiveView. I also used Livebook [6] a ton when I was building the multimedia processing & ML pipeline. I'm super bullish on Elixir for building webapps and/or MLops! Let me know what
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