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We’ve just open-sourced SemHash, a lightweight package for semantic text deduplication. It lets you effortlessly clean up your datasets and avoid pitfalls caused by duplicate samples in semantic search, RAG, and machine learning. Main Features: - Fast and hardware friendly: Deduplicate datasets with millions of records in minutes, on a CPU. - Flexible: Works on single or multiple datasets (e.g., train/test deduplication), and multi-column data (e.g., Question-Answering datasets). - Lightweight: Minimal dependencies (largest is NumPy). - Explainable: Easily inspect duplicates and what…

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    We’ve just released SemHash v0.3.0, a major rework of our open-source text pre-processing library. We’ve added two new functionalities: outlier filtering & representative sampling. The core API has been reworked to make sure all of these features can be used together in an intuitive way. Our new features use the existing approximate nearest neighbors index that we already used for semantic deduplication, so they can be ran very quickly after building the index on your dataset. The core package can now be used for: - Semantic Deduplication: Remove semantic duplicates from your dataset. This…

    2025 · github.com

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    Hi HN! I am Maria, solo founder of DataQA (https://dataqa.ai/), a tool to search and label documents for various NLP tasks (e.g. entity extraction, entity linking, etc). I have worked as a data scientist and ML engineer for the better part of a decade, and over that time have specialised mainly in applications involving natural language processing (NLP). One of the key questions I have always had at the back of my mind is whether my time was well spent. Whenever I spent more time on feature engineering or trying different models, I always wondered whether I would get better…

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    Hey HN! We've just open-sourced Semble, a fast and accurate code search library built for agents. We're also releasing potion-code-16M, a small code-specialized static embedding model that powers it. Most embedding-based code search methods are either too slow to index on demand or need GPU infrastructure, while grep-style retrieval methods often cannot find the relevant content. Semble combines the speed and quality benefits of both, so agents waste less time and fewer tokens exploring. Main features: - Fast: indexes a full codebase in ~250 ms and answers queries in ~1.5 ms, all on CPU…

    Apr 2026 · github.com

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    I made an app to fuzzy-deduplicate my Google Sheets and CRM records - No manual configuration required - Works out-of-the-box on most data types (ex. people, companies, product catalog) Implementation details: - Embeds records using an E5-family model - Performs similarity search using DuckDB w/ vector similarity extension - Does last-mile comparison and merges duplicates using Claude Demo video: https://youtu.be/7mZ0kdwXBwM Github repo (Apache 2.0 licensed): https://github.com/SnowPilotOrg/dedupe_it Background story: My company has a table for…

    2024 · app.dedupe.it

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    I've been working a fair bit with DSPy lately, and I did some work in combining the benefits of vector search and LLMs (via a DSPy pipeline) to disambiguate records with a high degree of accuracy to help enrich a dataset. The blog post shows how this approach scales well, is very cost-effective and super concise - all it takes is < 100 lines of DSPy code and it all runs async. The code to reproduce is in this repo if anyone's interested (all tools are 100% free and open source, and the methodology will work with open weight LLMs too).…

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    Hey HN! My brothers and I have worked on this for the last 2 weeks. We use OpenAI's `text-embedding-ada-002` model to embed queries and a vector database to search for similar verses &#x2F; blocks of verses. We'd like to see what you think and appreciate any feedback!

    2023 · siliconscripture.org

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    Hi HN! We (Thomas and Stéphan, hello!) recently released Model2Vec, a Python library for distilling any sentence transformer into a small set of static embeddings. This makes inference with such a model up to 500x faster, and reduces model size by a factor of 15 (7.5M params or 15&#x2F;30MB on disk, depending on whether you use float16 or float32). This allows you to embed 50-100k documents per second on a cpu on a macbook. This reduction of course comes at a cost: distilled models are worse than their parent models. Even so, they are actually a lot better than large sets of conventional…

    2024 · github.com

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    Hey folks, Elias here. Excited to unveil my latest project. Why I Built This: Traditional keyword search isn't cutting it. I've used LLM-embeddings to provide more nuanced, relevant results. How It Works: LLM-embedding similarity on curated datasets for semantically similar results. No need to iterate over keywords any more. Current Datasets: - YC Companies - Show HN Posts, - Ask HN Posts - ProductHunt Startups - Github Top 200k Repos Use Cases: - Validate a product idea's existence - Check if someone already Asked HN something - Have fun - search random terms and see what pops up Want to…

    2023 · payperrun.com

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