Bag of Decisions Reranker(softwaredoug.com)
63 points by zdw | 10 comments
Blog post describing an experimental search reranker where an LLM generates per-query yes/no relevance criteria, treating queries as a "bag of decisions."
#information-retrieval on Hacker News
5 stories tagged information-retrieval, newest first.
RAG Is Simpler Than You Think(lighthousenewsletter.com)
461 points by j0selit0 | 194 comments
A Lighthouse AI newsletter post by Rafael Pierre outlining six approaches to retrieval-augmented generation, from minimal to elaborate.
Show HN: Building a web search engine from scratch with 3B neural embeddings(blog.wilsonl.in)
578 points by wilsonzlin | 97 comments
Wilson Lin's blog post describing how he built a web search engine from scratch in two months using 3 billion neural embeddings.
Improving recommendation systems and search in the age of LLMs(eugeneyan.com)
379 points by 7d7n | 88 comments
Eugene Yan's long-form survey of how industrial recommendation and search systems are using LLMs across model architecture, data generation, training paradigms, and unified frameworks.
A search engine in 80 lines of Python(alexmolas.com)
564 points by alexmolas | 88 comments
Blog post walking through building a simple search engine from scratch in about 80 lines of Python, motivated by small website discoverability.