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A comment on Ask HN: How are you doing RAG locally?.

Re:Ask HN: How are you doing RAG locally? by marwamc on Thursday January 15, 2026 @11:00AM (#46634483)
BM25 has been sufficient for my needs. I typically need to refer to codebases of existing tools as referential sources (istio, envoy, oauth2-proxy, tantivy index etc) so I just clone those repos, index them and search away. Built a cli and mcp tool for this workflow.

https://github.com/rhobimd-oss/shebe

One area where BM25 particularly shines is the refactoring workflow: let's say you want to upgrade your istio installation from 1.28 to 1.29 and maybe in 1.29 the authorizationpolicy crd has a breaking change in one of it's properties. BM25 allows you to efficiently enumerate all code locations in your codebase that need to change and then you can set the cli coders off using this list. Grep and LSP can still perform this enumeration but they have shortcomings. Wrote about it here https://github.com/rhobimd-oss/shebe/blob/main/WHY_SHEBE.md#...

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Re:Ask HN: How are you doing RAG locally? by tubs on Thursday January 15, 2026 @12:11PM (#46635741)
The download links for binaries 404 for me.
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Re:Ask HN: How are you doing RAG locally? by marwamc on Thursday January 15, 2026 @12:20PM (#46635889)
Will fix the links. Meanwhile here is the releases page. I develop on gitlab and mirror to github. Need to make that clear as well.

https://gitlab.com/rhobimd-oss/shebe/-/releases

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Re:Ask HN: How are you doing RAG locally? by tubs on Thursday January 15, 2026 @03:03PM (#46638362)
Ah, I tried the gitlab and the tarballs 404 for me there, sorry I should have been more specific in the original post!

fwiw this does look interesting.

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Re:Ask HN: How are you doing RAG locally? by marwamc on Thursday January 15, 2026 @04:16PM (#46639436)
I see what's happening. I never validated those build artifacts... Thanks for the catch. Will rebuild notify you here.
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Re:Ask HN: How are you doing RAG locally? by marwamc on Monday January 19, 2026 @12:53PM (#46682198)
Got around to sorting the 404. Releases now work.

https://gitlab.com/rhobimd-oss/shebe/-/releases/v0.5.6-rc2

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