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Nirant Kasliwal

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Nirant Kasliwal's personal blog at nirantk.com covers ai and data. Since 2022, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “Pgvector vs. Qdrant”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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2022–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2023

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Why HN links it

HN readers link this blog for its comparison of pgvector and Qdrant as vector databases, and for a piece on why not to invest in vector databases.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

About Nirant Kasliwal

Most-linked posts?

  1. Pgvector vs. Qdrant
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-07-11

What Hacker News says?

  1. andre-z · 2023-07-11Recommends
    You should just check https://nirantk.com/writing/pgvector-vs-qdrant/

    Comment linking /writing/pgvector-vs-qdrant/

    on “Show HN: Danswer – Open-source question answering across all your docs”
  2. Submitted Talent Cooling (2020) as a story · 51 points

    HN discussion
  3. I guess that at a big enough scale it starts making sense. But not sure what “big” really is. Pgvector seems to perform very poorly compared to Qdrant: https://nirantk.com/writing/pgvector-vs-qdrant/

    Comment linking /writing/pgvector-vs-qdrant/

    on “Why You Shouldn't Invest in Vector Databases?”
  4. Submitted Why I Quit Data Science? as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Pgvector vs. Qdrant as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted The Agent as Compiler – Harness Engineering as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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