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

https://dejan.ai/blog/chromes-new-embedding-model/
30•kaycebasques•10h ago

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jbellis•6h 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•6h 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•5h 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•5h ago
What does Chrome use embeddings for?

Type-constrained code generation with language models

https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.09246
64•tough•2h ago•26 comments

Your fingers wrinkle the same way every time you're in the water too long

https://www.binghamton.edu/news/story/5547/do-your-fingers-wrinkle-the-same-way-every-time-youre-in-the-water-too-long-new-research-says-yes
18•gnabgib•1h ago•0 comments

Flattening Rust's Learning Curve

https://corrode.dev/blog/flattening-rusts-learning-curve/
47•birdculture•2h ago•21 comments

Branch Privilege Injection: Exploiting branch predictor race conditions

https://comsec.ethz.ch/research/microarch/branch-privilege-injection/
319•alberto-m•7h ago•127 comments

Starcloud

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/starcloud
123•wiley1454•4h ago•242 comments

Map of Palaeohispanic Coins and Inscriptions

http://hesperia.ucm.es/consulta_hesperia/mapas.php
8•brendanashworth•31m ago•0 comments

Build real-time knowledge graph for documents with LLM

https://cocoindex.io/blogs/knowledge-graph-for-docs/
64•badmonster•4h ago•11 comments

Failed Soviet Venus lander Kosmos 482 crashes to Earth after 53 years in orbit

https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/failed-soviet-venus-lander-kosmos-482-crashes-to-earth-after-53-years-in-orbit
98•taubek•3d ago•62 comments

Google is building its own DeX: First look at Android's Desktop Mode

https://www.androidauthority.com/android-desktop-mode-leak-3550321/
193•logic_node•10h ago•160 comments

Show HN: HelixDB – Open-source vector-graph database for AI applications (Rust)

https://github.com/HelixDB/helix-db/
114•GeorgeCurtis•7h ago•50 comments

PDF to Text, a challenging problem

https://www.marginalia.nu/log/a_119_pdf/
222•ingve•9h ago•124 comments

Multiple security issues in GNU Screen

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/05/12/1
330•st_goliath•13h ago•202 comments

A tool to verify estimates, II: a flexible proof assistant

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2025/05/09/a-tool-to-verify-estimates-ii-a-flexible-proof-assistant/
12•jjgreen•3d ago•0 comments

Launch HN: Miyagi (YC W25) turns YouTube videos into online, interactive courses

157•bestwillcui•11h ago•86 comments

Garbage collection of object storage at scale

https://www.warpstream.com/blog/taking-out-the-trash-garbage-collection-of-object-storage-at-massive-scale
35•ko_pivot•3d ago•6 comments

It Awaits Your Experiments

https://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=11511
124•pavel_lishin•9h ago•34 comments

How (memory) safe is Zig? (2021)

https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/how-safe-is-zig/
18•vortex_ape•2h ago•16 comments

Cardiac: A CARDboard Illustrative Aid to Computation [pdf]

https://www.cs.drexel.edu/~bls96/museum/CARDIAC_manual.pdf
15•throwaway71271•2h ago•5 comments

Less meat is nearly always better than sustainable meat

https://ourworldindata.org/less-meat-or-sustainable-meat
7•sohkamyung•48m ago•1 comments

Coffee for people who don't like coffee

https://ostwilkens.se/blog/coffee
20•ostwilkens•3d ago•56 comments

When graphic design saves lives

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2025/05/when-graphic-design-saves-lives/
7•gnabgib•3d ago•0 comments

Y Combinator says Google is a monopolist, no comment about its OpenAI ties

https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/13/y-combinator-says-google-is-a-monopolist-that-has-stunted-the-startup-ecosystem/
107•mastazi•2h ago•26 comments

OpenTelemetry protocol with Apache Arrow

https://opentelemetry.io/blog/2025/otel-arrow-phase-2/
55•tanelpoder•6h ago•13 comments

The world could run on older hardware if software optimization was a priority

https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1922100771392520710
560•turrini•14h ago•541 comments

I learned Snobol and then wrote a toy Forth

https://ratfactor.com/snobol/
115•ingve•2d ago•30 comments

Turritopsis dohrnii: Immortal jellyfish

https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/immortal-jellyfish-secret-to-cheating-death.html
30•vinnyglennon•4d ago•6 comments

Using obscure graph theory to solve programming languages problems

https://reasonablypolymorphic.com/blog/solving-lcsa/
27•matt_d•4h ago•3 comments

Membrane: Media Framework for Elixir

https://membrane.stream/
112•lawik•3d ago•35 comments

Insurers launch cover for losses caused by AI chatbot errors

https://www.ft.com/content/1d35759f-f2a9-46c4-904b-4a78ccc027df
107•jmacd•2d ago•41 comments

In a high-stress work environment, prioritize relationships

https://wqtz.bearblog.dev/high-stress-job-relationships/
284•wqtz•11h ago•178 comments