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by isoprophlex 752 days ago
$5000?! I indexed all of HN for ... $50 I think. And that's tens of millions of posts.
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To be fair Wikipedia has over 60 million pages and this is for 300+ languages. But yeah, the value shows that they might not be using the cheapest service out there.
How are you using that index?
https://www.searchhacker.news/

A tool that (hopefully) surfaces interesting HN discussion threads; I wanted an excuse to investigate (hybrid) full text and vector search at a substantial scale beyond toy datasets.

Sadly (well not really) I changed jobs soon after building the first version. Life caught up and I never got around to adding more features and polishing up the frontend (eg. the broken back button

Ideas for new features are very welcome :)