Text Embeddings for Search

The cluster focuses on discussions about using text embedding models (e.g., OpenAI, VoyageAI, sentence-transformers) for semantic search, vector databases, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) with LLMs.

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bigheadgpt Oct 31, 2023 View on HN

Did u try VoyageAI’s new embedding models for this?

shanusmagnus Feb 28, 2024 View on HN

1000 upvotes for you. My brain can't compute why someone hasn't made this, along with embeddings-based search that doesn't suck.

machiaweliczny Jan 18, 2023 View on HN

It’t that precisely embeddings API from OpenAI? It has all context so very useful for search

lxe Mar 26, 2023 View on HN

Thank you! I'm looking into sentence-transformers also to create embeddings from documents.

famouswaffles Apr 11, 2023 View on HN

Every method so far basically uses embeddings and vector searches. what i mean is how the LLM processes/uses that information doesn't need to be this handholdy.

skeptrune Aug 25, 2023 View on HN

It's much better to use something like bge-large-en - https://github.com/arguflow/openembeddings

nubg Jan 14, 2026 View on HN

Does this work with vector embeddings?

exe34 Apr 8, 2025 View on HN

that sounds like a really great example of..... searching through vector embedding. I don't think the LLM part was technically necessary.

adishj Nov 19, 2025 View on HN

how would this be different from vector embeddings / semantic search?

No gpt3. Embeddings alone can be used for semantic search.