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Show HN: Semantic search for MTG

Posted by Strift on Thursday January 15, 2026 @03:12AM
from the show-hn dept.

https://mtgbuilder.ai/search

I play MTG (Magic: The Gathering) and find the quality of AI tools in the space quite low.The reliability isn’t there, and the overpromises (e.g., automated deck building) vs. the reality (pulling 100 cards from EDHrec) lead to a negative reception. This contributes to the community feeling that AI just outputs slop because “it doesn’t get” Magic.I’m trying to improve the status quo by using...

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Re:Ask HN: How are you doing RAG locally? on Thursday January 15, 2026 @02:47AM (#46629385)
I just use a web server and a search engine.

TL;DR: - chunk files, index chunks - vector/hybrid search over the index - node app to handle requests (was the quickest to implement, LLMs understand OpenAPI well)

I wrote about it here: https://laurentcazanove.com/blog/obsidian-rag-api

Re:What Postgres Full Text Search Is Missing on Wednesday August 07, 2024 @11:01AM (#41182155)
I hate how slow the docs have become. Fwiw, we're working on fixing it :p
Re:Show HN: Refine v3.97 – Open-source React framework for building CR... on Thursday January 26, 2023 @05:52AM (#34530163)
I'm not too much into React but this seems like the kind of tools that can massively increase productivity. I can see open-source being a good source of both adoption and virtuousness as well. Very cool!