Show HN: Glossdex – semantic search that returns nothing when nothing matches

Category: ai-ml

Tags: semantic-search, local-first, retrieval-augmented-generation, privacy, ollama, multimodal

Score: 7.0/10 (Innovation: 7, Technical: 7, Documentation: 8, Utility: 6)

Glossdex is a local semantic search engine for personal photo and document collections that returns zero results when nothing sufficiently matches, using a gloss-based indexing approach and evidence-gated thresholds. It stands out for its principled 'abstain when uncertain' behavior and privacy-preserving local model inference.

Target audience: developers building RAG systems, privacy-conscious users, and AI engineers

Repository: https://github.com/miranpoor/glossdex · Python · AGPL-3.0 · 5 stars

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