You may have noticed that search on the Visual... Studio Code website has gotten a lot quicker lately. In our latest blogpost, João Moreno breaks down the engineering process behind docfind, a search engine we built that runs entirely in your browser using WebAssembly:show more

A search engine has many moving parts, and they... constantly change with scale of index and traffic. In this blog post, we dive into the code-level abstractions we've built to develop search infrastructure that is both performant and a joy to work with.show more

Big moment for Postgres! Search has always been Postgres'... weak spot, and everyone just accepted it. If you needed a real relevance-ranked keyword search, the default answer was to spin up Elasticsearch or add Algolia and deal with the data sync headaches forever. The problem isn't that Postgres can't do text search. It can. But the built-in `ts_rank` function uses a basic term frequency algorithm that doesn't come close to what modern search engines deliver. So teams end up: - Running a separate Elasticsearch cluster just for search - Building sync pipelines that inevitably drift out of consistency - Paying for managed search services that charge per query - Accepting mediocre search relevance because "good enough" ships faster But this is actually a solvable problem. You can realistically bring industry-standard search ranking directly into Postgres, which eliminates the need for external infra entirely. This exact solution is now available with the newly open-sourced pg_textsearch by Tiger Data - Creators of TimescaleDB, a Postgres extension that brings true BM25 relevance ranking into the database. BM25 is the algorithm behind Elasticsearch, Lucene, and most modern search engines. Now it runs natively in Postgres. Here's what pg_textsearch enables: - True BM25 ranking with configurable parameters (the same algorithm powering production search systems) - Simple SQL syntax: `ORDER BY content 'search terms'` - Works with Postgres text search configurations for multiple languages - Pairs naturally with pgvector for hybrid keyword + semantic search That last point matters a lot for RAG apps. The video below shows this in action, and I worked with the team to put this together. You can now do hybrid retrieval (combining keyword matching with vector similarity) in a single database, without stitching together multiple systems. The syntax is clean enough that you can add relevance-ranked search to existing queries in minutes. pg_textsearch is fully open-source under the PostgreSQL license. You can find a link to their GitHub repo in the next tweet.show more

🚨BREAKING: China just released an AI employee that runs... on your own computer. It can search the web, write code, build websites, make slides, and create videos. All by itself. It even comes with its own built-in computer. 100% Open Source.show more

Chemify’s Large-Molecular-Model enabled search engine not only tells you... if a molecule is accessible, it can design new molecules, plan the routes, & produces code to make them in real time on our robotic systems.show more

Inspired by Andrej Karpathy's microgpt, I built microgpt.js: a... JavaScript port that runs entirely in your browser! It's an exact numerical implementation, so the randomness and outputs match bit-for-bit! Try it out yourself and train your own GPT by simply opening a webpage! 👇show more

A shortcut for your shortcuts In the latest Zen... update we introduced some improvements to the command bar, which now understands when you're not looking for a website. Just press the tab key and your search narrows down to actions like pinning a tab, opening an extension, creating a split view and much much more. Now available in 1.16.3b —show more

Our annual Year in Search looks back at what... the world searched for — the moments that sparked global curiosity. Get a sneak peek at the 2025 #YearInSearch video before it drops 👀 Explore more of the year’s trending searches on our website →show more

A guy in Vancouver built an entire operating system... inside a Chrome tab. By himself. Over six years. His personal website is the OS. You open and a Windows-style desktop loads. File explorer. Start menu. Taskbar. You can drag in a zip and extract it. You can play DOOM. You can play Quake III Arena. You can boot Linux from an ISO. You can run Stable Diffusion locally for image generation. You can open a Python terminal. You can edit code in Monaco, the same engine that powers VS Code. All of it runs in your browser tab. Nothing installs. His name is Dustin Brett. Self-taught engineer. Father. Husband. 4,473 commits. All his. He had to swap the Windows icon for the π symbol because of legal pressure. The repo has 12,883 stars. MIT license. His hosting bill is one dollar a month. A single Cloudflare CDN does the rest. This is what the open web was built for. (Link in the comments)show more

. Runway just added a new feature that you... may not have noticed and we wanted to compare. You can now upscale your generation to 4K! Our favorite has typically been Topaz Labs, so we wanted to compare the out of both. Here is the original video from Runwayshow more

This interface is a little "hidden" but you can... access it easily. First, check that you have access to Google Search's AI functions. 1. Go to labs .google 2. Click on "Get started" in the Google Search category 3. Activate "SGE generative AI in Search" Next, write a prompt like I already showed you to draw an image in Google. Example: “draw a submarine in the sky” Once your images are generated, click on one then “Edit”.show more

I updated the website! Take a look at all... the categories and art that @DollyJKazoo designed! It was so cool being able to make art for all of the products we have. The collections have grown so much over the years that we just needed to do a makeover so we can fit all of our items on the home page and make it look more pretty~ Also a sneak peek of our mascot Baby Finn the Giraffe making a comeback! Lastly, I realized after I recorded this, so the tabs at the bottom will only be available on the website if you want to have an easier log-in experience. Which the app is available on Apple and Android. Just search “Lil Comforts” on your appstore!show more

$PI isn't just a coin, it's the future of... global shopping! Everyone can Search, Buy & Sell everything with Map of Pi, paying with Pi directly between Pi Wallet in the Pi Browser. Have you shared #MapofPi🗺️ with your friends? Visit our app onlineshow more

🤩 I just learned a super cool trick! Do... you know how sometimes you want to record while you scroll on a website, like for a demo or something... But by using the mouse to scroll it turns out to be kinda janky and it doesn't look very good? No? Just me? 🤭 Well, I found out that if you paste this code in the console of your browser: ` setInterval(() => window.scrollBy(0, 4), 16); ` You can make the browser automatically scroll for you! And it looks super cool in the recording! 😎show more

This is now the average experience driving through Austin,... TX. If you get stuck at a red light, drug addicts will come and scream, or pound on your window (this happened to me the other day). They've also been using the FREEWAY as a crosswalk lately. The homeless issue has gotten visibly worse in Austin lately.show more

PRESIDENT TRUMP: We will build a Great Iron Dome... over our country, a dome like has never been seen before, a state-of-the-art missile defense shield that will be entirely built in America and create JOBS, JOBS, JOBS.show more

When a veteran NYPD cop begs his own son... not to join the force, the system is broken. Rafael Mangual shares the conversation that changed his life, and why police may now face more danger in court than on the street. Search: Heroes Behind the Badge Podcastshow more

Introducing our most accurate /search yet. We trained a... model to return the excerpts that best answer your query, giving agents highly relevant context from each result. It's SOTA on SimpleQA while using 10x fewer tokens than processing full pages. Now on by default for free.show more

🚨ChatGPT for Customer Service is Here🚨 Hot on the... heels of the OpenAI GPT-4 launch, you'll be ꜱʜᴏᴄᴋᴇᴅ to hear that we have a new product release built entirely on GPT-4. This is perhaps Intercom's biggest new release in our history...show more