Wilson Lin https://blog.wilsonl.in Blog for Wilson Lin Thu, 06 Nov 2025 09:46:42 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html https://github.com/jpmonette/feed en-us Wilson Lin https://blog.wilsonl.in/favicon.jpg https://blog.wilsonl.in All rights reserved 2025, Wilson Lin <![CDATA[Building blobd: single-machine object store with sub-millisecond reads and 15 GB/s uploads]]> https://blog.wilsonl.in/blobd https://blog.wilsonl.in/blobd Mon, 03 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT wl@wilsonl.in (Wilson Lin) <![CDATA[Building a high recall vector database serving 1 billion embeddings from a single machine]]> https://blog.wilsonl.in/corenn https://blog.wilsonl.in/corenn Sun, 10 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT wl@wilsonl.in (Wilson Lin) <![CDATA[From 3 TB RAM to 96 GB: superseding billion vector HNSW with 40x cheaper DiskANN]]> https://blog.wilsonl.in/diskann https://blog.wilsonl.in/diskann Sun, 10 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT wl@wilsonl.in (Wilson Lin) <![CDATA[From Kevin Bacon to HNSW: the intuition behind semantic search and vector databases]]> https://blog.wilsonl.in/graph-vector-search https://blog.wilsonl.in/graph-vector-search Sun, 10 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT wl@wilsonl.in (Wilson Lin) <![CDATA[Exploring Hacker News by mapping and analyzing 40 million posts and comments]]> https://blog.wilsonl.in/hackerverse https://blog.wilsonl.in/hackerverse Thu, 09 May 2024 00:00:00 GMT wl@wilsonl.in (Wilson Lin) <![CDATA[Building a web search engine from scratch in two months with 3 billion neural embeddings]]> https://blog.wilsonl.in/search-engine https://blog.wilsonl.in/search-engine Sun, 10 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT wl@wilsonl.in (Wilson Lin)