Show HN: Sift – local hybrid search CLI in a single Rust binary
https://www.alexdk.com/blog/introducing-sift
Built this for agentic workflows where you need repeatable, low-latency search over local codebases and docs without standing up a daemon or an indexing service.Pipeline is Expansion → BM25/phrase/vector Retrieval → RRF Fusion → optional Qwen reranking. Each stage is independently tunable.The part I found most interesting to build: the caching layer is modeled after Zig's build system. A BLAKE3...