Show HN: I wrote a full text search engine in Go

Re:Show HN: I wrote a full text search engine in Go by kdawkins on Thursday October 09, 2025 @02:26PM (#45531287)

This is very cool! Your readme is intersting and well written - I didn't know I could be so interested in the internals of a full text search engine :)

What was the motivation to kick this project off? Learning or are you using it somehow?

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Re:Show HN: I wrote a full text search engine in Go by novocayn on Thursday October 09, 2025 @03:03PM (#45531722)

I’m learning the internals of FTS engines while building a vector database from scratch. Needed a solid FTS index, so I built one myself :)

It ended up being a clean, reusable component, so I decided to carve it out into a standalone project

The README is mostly notes from my Notion pages, glad you found it interesting!

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Re:Show HN: I wrote a full text search engine in Go by n_u on Thursday October 09, 2025 @03:08PM (#45531772)

What are you building a vector database from scratch for?

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Re:Show HN: I wrote a full text search engine in Go by novocayn on Thursday October 09, 2025 @03:14PM (#45531847)

Mostly wanted a refresher on GPU accelerated indexes and Vector DB internals. And maybe along the way, build an easy on-ramp for folks who want to understand how these work under the hood

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