My unpublished benchmark post said 10x. The honest number is 1.2x to 1.8x.The old draft The benchmark I'd sign today Headline "10x faster", "2x faster than hnswlib" 1.20x to 1.79x hnswlib, 1.30x to 1.43x faiss Recall 61% for Foxstash, 40% for hnswlib the same for all t12COct 21 · 5 min readblog.narcolepticfox.com
Below 1.0, the minor number is the breaking oneFoxstash 0.9 removed a public storage mode. Anyone whose code named it gets a compile error on upgrade. That's a breaking change, so the release is 0.9.0, not 0.8.1. That sounds obvious. It wasn't wri1Oct 20 · 4 min readblog.narcolepticfox.com
My website had the default wrong for 86 daysFoxstash 0.9 shipped on Saturday. The release notes came to me from the Claude Code session that maintains the library, written to be copied onto my company's website. Before any of it went on the sit4ASOct 19 · 5 min readblog.narcolepticfox.com
The delete that didn't deleteFoxstash shipped three releases this week: 0.7 on Tuesday, 0.8 on Wednesday, 0.9 on Saturday. Foxstash is my Rust retrieval library, the part of a search or AI system that finds the right passages, ru5ASMOct 18 · 8 min readblog.narcolepticfox.com
Quiet has to be earnedFoxWatch is the PC health monitor I'm building at Narcoleptic Fox. The whole idea fits in one line: stay quiet unless there's something specific to do. I last wrote about it in July, when it was a des3SOct 10 · 8 min readblog.narcolepticfox.com
