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The author built a retrieval engine from scratch to benchmark HNSW against FAISS, finding that brute force search is faster for small document sets and that encoder latency dominates retrieval time, while RRF fusion of BM25 and dense retrieval improves quality significantly.
The tweet observes that frontier AI labs are spending billions on hiring diverse professionals (poets, musicians, accountants, etc.) to annotate massive datasets, calling it a brute-force bet that seems to be working.
Dashlane published an opaque advisory warning that attackers obtained 20 encrypted user vaults via a brute-force attack on two-factor authentication, with users reporting lack of direct notification and confusing details.
A student at Colorado School of Mines built a fast brute-force DNS enumeration tool to discover all devices on campus network, first in Python then in Rust, by permuting subdomains on the local DNS.