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atonseyesterday at 10:19 PM1 replyview on HN

Interesting. I feel this is something that Apple could've built as "Spotlight 2.0" right into macOS. Yet another missed opportunity.

How does this compare to qmd [1] by Tobi Lutke?

[1] https://github.com/tobi/qmd


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threecheeseyesterday at 11:01 PM

For one, qmd uses SQLite (fts5 and SQLite-vec, at least at some point) and then builds reranked hybrid search on top of that. It uses some cool techniques like resilient chunking and embedding, all packaged up into a typescript cli. Id say it sits at a layer above Wax.