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VelesDB now has a Haystack connector - build a RAG pipeline with zero infrastructure

14h ago · 6 min read · You want to build a RAG pipeline with Haystack. The first thing the tutorial tells you is to spin up a Docker container for your vector store. What if you could skip that entirely? VelesDB now ships a first-party Haystack 2.x DocumentStore, contribut...

Find duplicate photos on your machine in 0.3ms - no cloud, no GPU

Apr 6 · 9 min read · You have 10,000 photos on your laptop. Some are duplicates. Some are resized. Some are cropped versions of the same scene. Your brain instantly knows they're related. Your computer? It thinks they're

Run your AI assistant fully offline: a local-first architecture

Apr 2 · 7 min read · What if your AI assistant worked on an airplane? In a hospital? On a classified network? Most AI stacks fall apart without internet. They depend on OpenAI for inference, Pinecone for vectors, and half a dozen cloud APIs for everything in between. Kil...

Build an MCP server that gives any LLM long-term memory

Apr 2 · 5 min read · Your LLM forgets everything after each session. MCP lets you fix that with 3 tools and zero infrastructure. No database cluster. No Redis. No "memory service" running in the background. Just a Python script and a 3MB embedded engine that persists to ...

One query is never enough: why top RAG systems search three times

Apr 2 · 10 min read · LangChain has MultiQueryRetriever. LlamaIndex has SubQuestionQueryEngine. Every serious RAG framework decomposes user questions into multiple search queries before hitting the vector database. Why? Because a single embedding compresses your entire qu...