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24 alternatives to Library of Babel
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All the words ever written. All the words to be written.
2016 · libraryofbabel.info · its alternatives →
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Books Search with Typesense
2020 · books-search.typesense.org · its alternatives →
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End-to-end deep dive of the project, spanning a large GPU cluster, distributed RocksDB, and terabytes of sharded HNSW.
2025 · blog.wilsonl.in · its alternatives →
- 4FT
2021 · gutensearch.com · its alternatives →
- 5EB
2022 · libraryofbabel.tdjs.tech · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! I love finding new books to read on here. I wanted to gather the most mentioned books and recreate the serendipity of physical browsing. I scraped 20k comments from HN threads related to reading, extracted the references and opinions using GPT-4o mini, and visualised their embeddings as a map. - OpenAI's embeddings were processed using UMAP and HDBSCAN. A direct 2D projection from the text embeddings didn't yield visually interesting results. Instead, HDBSCAN is first applied on a high-dimensional projection. Those clusters tend to correspond to different genres. The genre…
2024 · hnbooks.pieterma.es · its alternatives →
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I started writing this book 10 years ago in JavaScript, got through a few chapters (asymptotic notation, basic techniques, start of sorting), and then abandoned it. Recently I picked it back up, converted everything to TypeScript, and used AI (Zenflow [1] + Claude Opus 4.6) to complete the remaining chapters. I provided the structure, direction, and initial chapters; the AI generated the bulk of the remaining content under a spec-driven workflow. The book covers roughly a first 1-2 year CS curriculum: sorting, dynamic programming, graph algorithms, trees, heaps, hash tables, and more. All…
Mar 2026 · amoilanen.github.io · its alternatives →
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Here's a project I've been working on for a little while now. Ripl is a JS library that provides a unified API for rendering shapes on both canvas and SVG interchangeably. Over the years I've used D3 extensively to create data visualisations so I figured I'd have a go at making my own version with a slightly more modern API and stricter TypeScript support. I am aware there are already libraries that can draw to multiple contexts interchangeably, but I've added a few little niceties to Ripl that (as far as I know) some other libraries don't have such as CSS-like query selectors, DOM-like…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Introducing Biblos, a simple tool for semantic search and summarization of Bible passages. Leveraging Chroma for vector search with BAAI BGE embeddings, semantically find related verses across the Bible. The tool employs Anthropic's Claude LLM model for generating high-quality summaries of retrieved passages, contextualizing your search topic. Built on a Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) architecture, the app implements a simple Streamlit Web UI using Python. Deployed using render.com, the app is available at https://biblos.app Note: Search by just topic/keywords, e.g.…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Deepmark▲108Your browser, X, Instagram and YouTube bookmarks in one private library. AI transcribes and describes every save; semantic search finds it in natural language.
Aug 2026 · usedeepmark.com · its alternatives →
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Organize your books, track your reading and write reviews
2023 · pascio.gumroad.com · its alternatives →
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Free chapters from a book by Stephen A. Thomas
2014 · jsdatav.is · its alternatives →
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Tantivy▲68A full-text, horse-speed search engine library in Rust
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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🐠 Babel is a compiler for writing next generation JavaScript. - babel/babel
2014 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Vector space model implemented in a few lines . Contribute to felipehummel/TinySearchEngine development by creating an account on GitHub.
2011 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Shelvy Books▲52Hey HN! I built a little side project I wanted to share. Shelvy is a free, visual bookshelf app where you can organize books you're reading, want to read, or have finished. Sign in to save your own collection. Not monetized, no ads, no tracking beyond basic auth. Just a fun weekend project that grew a bit. Live: https://shelvybooks.com Would love any feedback on the UX or feature ideas!
Jan 2026 · shelvybooks.com · its alternatives →
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Stream based full-text search for Node.js and browsers. Built on LevelDB. - cshum/levi
2015 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Browse, explore, and search a complete re-creation of Jorge Luis Borges
2024 · libraryofbabel.app · its alternatives →
- 19PV
Search a 100,000-article ParqDB index directly in the browser with MiniLM, HTTP Range, Parquet, and WebAssembly.
Aug 2026 · search.parqdb.io · its alternatives →
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🌱 TDF - Tree Document Format - a universal file format for web collections - DO-SAY-GO/tdf
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Discover new books, find the one you have always missed. We have more than 100,000 books, but all in one picture.
2021 · thelibrarymap.com · its alternatives →
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GoThrough hosts a searchable index of exported members in the Go standard library and a selection of hosted packages.
2023 · gothrough.dev · its alternatives →
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A JavaScript library to add search functionality to any Jekyll blog. - christian-fei/Simple-Jekyll-Search
2014 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Frustrated by the inability to play with semantic search / ANN in Go w/o a heavy-weight external DB, I created this HNSW library. I hope other gophers find it useful.
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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