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Chrome's New Embedding Model: Smaller, Faster, Same Quality

https://dejan.ai/blog/chromes-new-embedding-model/
19•kaycebasques•5h ago

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jbellis•2h ago
TIL that Chrome ships an internal embedding model, interesting!

It's a shame that it's not open source, unlikely that there's anything super proprietary in an embeddings model that's optimized to run on CPU.

(I'd use it if it were released; in the meantime, MiniLM-L6-v2 works reasonably well. https://brokk.ai/blog/brokk-under-the-hood)

vessenes•1h ago
Agreed! On open source though - can't you just pull the model and use the weights? I confess I have no idea what the licensing would be for an open source-backed browser deploying weights, but it seems like unless you made a huge amount of money off it, it would be unproblematic, and even then could be just fine.
darepublic•55m ago
> Yes – Chromium now ships a tiny on‑device sentence‑embedding model, but it’s strictly an internal feature.

What it’s for “History Embeddings.” Since ~M‑128 the browser can turn every page‑visit title/snippet and your search queries into dense vectors so it can do semantic history search and surface “answer” chips. The whole thing is gated behind two experiments:

^ response from chatgpt

pants2•48m ago
What does Chrome use embeddings for?

Admin Day

https://blog.kaplich.me/admin-day/
1•skaplich•2m ago•0 comments

Using Obscure Graph Theory to Solve Programming Languages Problems

https://reasonablypolymorphic.com/blog/solving-lcsa/
2•matt_d•4m ago•0 comments

The smallest, fastest, power-autonomous biped robot

https://engineering.cmu.edu/news-events/news/2025/05/12-smallest-bipedal-robot.html
1•gnabgib•4m ago•0 comments

Zero-Day Attacks Highlight Another Busy Microsoft Patch Tuesday

https://www.securityweek.com/zero-day-attacks-highlight-another-busy-microsoft-patch-tuesday/
1•Bender•5m ago•0 comments

Nextcloud's Android App Issues

https://nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-android-file-upload-issue-google/
1•simonebrunozzi•6m ago•1 comments

The irrepressible monkey in the machine (2023)

https://ratsfromrocks.substack.com/p/the-irrepressible-monkey-in-the-machine
1•jger15•7m ago•0 comments

'Crime Bingo' Results in 9 Montana Felony Cases Being Thrown Out

https://cowboystatedaily.com/2025/05/12/crime-bingo-results-in-9-montana-felony-cases-being-thrown-out/
2•Bender•8m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Conductor Tasks MCP: Task Manager for AI Development

https://github.com/hridaya423/conductor-tasks
1•hridyaagrawal•9m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: What's the boldest white lie you've told your kids?

1•rkagerer•9m ago•0 comments

Shingles vaccine reduces risk of heart disease by 23%, study of one million

https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/09/health/shingles-heart-disease-vaccine-shots-wellness
2•Bender•10m ago•0 comments

ByteSize, a weekly newsletter by the team at Experts Exchange Beehiiv

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1•elsadek•10m ago•0 comments

Time Well Spent: A New Way to Value Time Could Change Your Life

https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/time-well-spent-a-new-way-to-value-time-could-change-your-life/
1•gnabgib•10m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: What is your backup plan in case you don't get into YC S25?

1•rblion•11m ago•0 comments

The tariffs are here. Inflation isn't. What gives?

https://www.vox.com/economy/412910/trump-china-tariffs-inflation-recession
2•ecofriendlypunk•14m ago•0 comments

Don't buy a new computer when Support for Windows 10 ends on Oct 14

https://endof10.org/
7•teekert•14m ago•0 comments

Mean Time to Isolate (MTTI): the missing incident-response metric

https://www.oldschoolburke.com/the-mtti-manifesto/
1•zdosb•14m ago•1 comments

Ford to cut 350 software jobs

https://www.freep.com/story/money/cars/ford/2025/05/13/ford-slash-350-jobs-chief-accountant-kyle-crockett/83599270007/
1•rmason•17m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: What OS/distro is used at an AI datacenter

1•kranke155•17m ago•0 comments

AWS enters into 'strategic partnership' with Saudi Arabia-backed Humain

https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/13/aws-enters-into-strategic-partnership-with-saudi-arabia-backed-humain/
1•spenvo•19m ago•0 comments

From Vibe Coding to Vibe Engineering

https://boleary.dev/talks/vibe-engineering/
3•mooreds•22m ago•0 comments

Token Status List RFC

https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-oauth-status-list-10.html
1•mooreds•23m ago•0 comments

What's New in the Oracle Solaris 11.4.81 CBE Release

https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris/post/whats-new-in-the-oracle-solaris-11481-cbe-release
1•cbmuser•24m ago•0 comments

State of U.S. Tariffs: May 12, 2025

https://budgetlab.yale.edu/research/state-us-tariffs-may-12-2025
1•mooreds•25m ago•1 comments

Elon Musk Brings Starlink to Saudi Arabia as US Oligarchs Join Trump in Mid East

https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-brings-starlink-to-saudi-arabia-as-u-s-oligarchs-join-trump-in-middle-east-2000601601
2•rntn•25m ago•0 comments

uBlock Origin Lite beta version for Safari

https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/issues/327
5•aheckler•25m ago•1 comments

Build Real-Time Knowledge Graph for Documents with LLM

https://cocoindex.io/blogs/knowledge-graph-for-docs/
1•badmonster•26m ago•0 comments

The first year of free-threaded Python

https://labs.quansight.org/blog/free-threaded-one-year-recap
1•ngoldbaum•26m ago•0 comments

Things ancient Romans taught me about software development

https://shiftmag.dev/things-ancient-romans-taught-me-about-software-development-5214/
1•dxs•28m ago•0 comments

ChatGPT may be polite, but it's not cooperating with you

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ng-interactive/2025/may/13/chatgpt-ai-big-tech-cooperation
5•c420•28m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Scan any MCP server for malicious code

https://mcpserverscanner.com/
1•orgoldfus•29m ago•0 comments