Hornet
Hornet is The unreasonable effectiveness of BM25 for agentic search: @jobergum. It is ranked #509 on the Dev Radar, in Databases, first seen 3 days ago and shared in 1 post (2.9k views).
What Hornet says about itself
Hornet is the retrieval engine built for agents.
Hornet — Built for Agentic Retrieval Stay in the loop Agents need a new retrieval engine Legacy retrieval infrastructure was tuned for one user: humans. The stack was optimized for short keyword queries, millisecond response times, and top-ten snippets. Now agents run search, and the workload changes. Agents issue long, structured queries inside reasoning loops. They read entire documents and trade latency for throughput and recall. Force-fitting these workloads onto legacy retrieval infrastructure raises costs and leads to poor results. Hornet is the retrieval engine for agents It handles iterative and parallel retrieval loops with a…
What people said about Hornet on X
Live now: our Search & Retrieval Track from AI Engineer World's Fair 2026. A thirty year old scoring function that never changed, a perfect search engine that would cost ten million dollars a query, and the year machines start searching more than people do. Thesis: the searcher changed before the search engine did.…
— @aiDotEngineer, 3 days ago · 26 likes · see the post
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Hornet in numbers
- Rank on the Dev Radar: #509 of 1347
- Shared in 1 post by 1 account: @aiDotEngineer
- 2.9k views on those posts
- First seen 3 days ago, last shared 3 days ago
- Pricing seen by Jev: not stated
- Market: Databases
FAQ
What is Hornet?
The unreasonable effectiveness of BM25 for agentic search: @jobergum It was first shared on X 3 days ago and is ranked #509 on the Dev Radar.
Is Hornet free?
Pricing is not stated on the page we read.
Who shared Hornet?
1 account on X, including @aiDotEngineer, in 1 post totalling 2.9k views.
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