Hacker News Top Stories with Summaries (January 07, 2024)
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<h1> Hacker News Top Stories</h1>
<p>Here are the top stories from Hacker News with summaries for January 07, 2024 :</p>
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On building a semantic search engine
Summary: Vicki Boykis is shutting down her 2023 side project, Viberary, a semantic search engine for books by vibe, due to maintenance costs and time constraints. She learned valuable lessons from the project, including the importance of personal interest, starting simple, and the satisfaction of shipping products. Viberary used a two-tower semantic retrieval model and Goodreads book corpus for its machine learning architecture. Boykis plans to work on a new project idea.
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Rue de L'Avenir
Summary: The Rue de l'Avenir was an electric moving walkway installed at the 1900 Exposition Universelle in Paris, designed by architect Joseph Lyman Silsbee and engineer Max E. Schmidt. It covered a 3.5 km loop around the exhibition site with nine stations, allowing passengers to complete the loop in 26 minutes. The walkway could accommodate 14,000 people simultaneously and carried 70,000 people on Easter Day.