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privacy Sep 17, 2026 5 min read

Hister Turns Your Browser History and Files Into a Private Search Engine

Hister is a self-hosted search engine for browser history, saved web pages, and local files. This guide explains how its index works, how to install it locally, write precise queries, and connect it carefully to an AI assistant.

by ahsan

#browser history #hister #privacy #search #self-hosting

machine learning Aug 14, 2026 6 min read

Don’t Classify—Hallucinate (Then Match): A Cheaper Way to Hit Your Real Taxonomy

Structured outputs work great until your taxonomy turns into a giant schema. A cheaper pattern is to ask a small model to hallucinate plausible category candidates, then map those candidates back to your real taxonomy using embeddings and vector similarity.

by ahsan

#ecommerce #embeddings #llm #pydantic #search