Dmitry Kan

Personal blog · dmitry-kan.medium.com · on HN as dmitrykan ai data

Dmitry Kan's personal blog at dmitry-kan.medium.com covers ai and data. Since 2020, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-11, and you can follow it by feed.

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4HN people?

2020–2025first – last linked?

Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2021

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link this Medium blog as a comparison of dense vector database solutions. The one comment cites it as a source and notes that a specific implementation is missing from it.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

The author on HN?

dmitrykan · 16 karma · member since 2013

I've been independently (that is -- in my free time) researching vector search databases and neural search frameworks. You can find my findings in the Medium blog. I also consult on these topics, if you need a hand or support in designing your vector search powered engine. Vector search blog: https://dmitry-kan.medium.com/ Vector Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/c/VectorPodcast GitHub: https://github.com/DmitryKey/bert-solr-search Twitter: https://twitter.com/DmitryKan

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What Hacker News says?

donretag · 2022-09-15
Here is a comparison of various dense vector solutions: https://dmitry-kan.medium.com/how-to-choose-a-vector-databas... What is missing is Licence's implemention, which helps power Solr/OpenSearch/Elasticsearch
Comment linking /how-to-choose-a-vector-database-8c6e6f0f8f8b
on “Algolia Acquires Search.io”
gk1 · 2021-10-02
Submitted Vector Databases as a story · 72 points
HN discussion
dmitrykan · 2021-11-29
To learn about vector search and get practical with it, you can check out my blog as well: https://dmitry-kan.medium.com/list/vector-search-e9b564d1427... I'm also hosting a podcast around these topics: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCIMPfR7TXyDvlDRXjVhP1g
Comment linking /list/vector-search-e9b564d14274
on “Semantic search through Wikipedia with the Weaviate vector search engine”
dmitrykan · 2021-10-05
Submitted Vector Podcast for Vector Search: people, businesses, products as a story · 7 points
HN discussion
dmitrykan · 2023-07-05
https://dmitry-kan.medium.com/ I write about vector search, ANN algorithms, neural search frameworks, search engines and algorithms in general and publish episodes of the Vector Podcast.
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on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”
dmitrykan · 2020-11-20
Submitted Fun with Apache Lucene and Bert Embeddings as a story · 4 points
HN discussion
bobvanluijt · 2022-12-23
Submitted Neural Search Frameworks: A Head-to-Head Comparison as a story · 3 points
HN discussion
dmitrykan · 2021-11-12
Submitted Vector Search as a story · 3 points
HN discussion
dmitrykan · 2025-01-16
Submitted The Rise, Fall, and Future of Vector Databases: How to Pick the One That Lasts as a story · 1 points
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