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2026-09-11
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I Built the SQLite of Vector Search in ~120KB of Pure C & SIMD: 3,000x Faster Cold Starts and Zero Dependencies for AI Agents
A developer built NanoVector, a dependency-free vector search library written in roughly 120KB of pure C with handcrafted AVX2 and NEON SIMD kernels, packaged as a 38KB Python wheel. Benchmarks agains…