Hornet
Hornet is The unreasonable effectiveness of BM25 for agentic search: @jobergum. It is ranked #572 on the AI Radar, in RAG & memory, 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.
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 AI Radar: #572 of 1184
- 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: RAG & memory
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 #572 on the AI 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.
Every post is read and classified by Jev (TypeSafe): what it is, which market it belongs to, and whether the link is a real tool. 27.1k posts from 4.8k X accounts over the last 14 days, 1.2k tools, 19 markets. Collected every 5 minutes, fully re-ranked every hour — last update 2026-09-19 17:27 UTC. Full method.