Michael Christen / YaCy Search

Open Source Developer and Search Engine Creator,
Maintainer of YaCy.net and SUSI.ai, Research on AI in Information Retrieval
Follow me on Patreon for news about YaCy: patreon.com/orbiterlab

Michael Christen / YaCy Searchorbiterlab@sigmoid.social
2025-06-29

Vortrag: "Superhuman AI - Wie und wann ist KI nützlich"

Wie übermenschlich muss Künstliche Intelligenz sein, um unseren Alltag zu verändern? Dieser Vortrag zeigt, dass wir übermenschliche Super-KI teilweise bereits nutzen können.

youtube.com/watch?v=sk6AfsF9Ql

Michael Christen / YaCy Searchorbiterlab@sigmoid.social
2025-06-22

@schmidt_fu every peer published itself every two minutes to a some (say 10, cant remember niw exactly) random other peers. Those return another small number of peers they have seen recently. That distributes peer changes very quickly.

Michael Christen / YaCy Searchorbiterlab@sigmoid.social
2025-06-22

New docker release for YaCy - after 8 months (sorry) after a failure of the old release mechanism. Also: new images are now about 400MB instead of 1.3-2GB because of enhanced packaging. And they are multi-arch!

With docker you can run YaCy simply with:
docker run -d -p 8090:8090 yacy/yacy_search_server:latest

Michael Christen / YaCy Searchorbiterlab@sigmoid.social
2025-06-16

LLM Model Release Map (red: ChatGPT-3.5-class, blue: GPT-4-class models; guessed). Current progress is about five new major models every month!

LLM Model Release Map
Michael Christen / YaCy Searchorbiterlab@sigmoid.social
2025-05-19

@marsxyz Thank you for initiating the YaCy integration in Open Web-UI here: github.com/open-webui/open-web

Thats a good idea and yes, mixing a local LLM with a local search engine is a good idea!

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Martial Toniottimarsxyz@fed.toniotti.be
2025-05-18

Yesterday I finally done something I wanted to do for quite some time; have a local AI that can locally query the web without relying on google or other search engines.

In its last update, open-webui added support for Yacy as a search provider. Yacy is an open source, distributed search engine that does not rely on a central index but rely on distributed peers indexing pages themselves. I already tried Yacy in the past but the problem is that the algorithm that sorts the results is garbage and it is not really usable as a search engine. Of course a small open source software that can run on literally anything (the server it ran on for this experiment is a 12th gen Celeron with 8GB of RAM) cannot compete in term of the intelligence of the algorithm to sort the results with companies like Google or Microsoft. It was practically unusable.

Or It Was ! Coupled with an LLM, the LLM can sort the trash results from Yacy out and keep what is useful !

That means that we can now have selfhosted AI models that learn from the Web ... without relying on Google or any central entity at all !

Some caveats; 1. Of course this is inferior to using google or even duckduckgo, I just wanted to share that here because I think you'll find it cool. 2. You need a solid CPU to have a lot of concurrent research, my Celeron gets hammered to 100% usage at each query. (open-webui and a bunch of other services are running on this server, that must not help).

Screenshot from open webui asking a local instance of deepseek who's the current pope. The AI answers correctly.
Michael Christen / YaCy Searchorbiterlab@sigmoid.social
2025-04-22

Wie funktioniert ChatGPT _ganz_genau_? Die verständliche und wirklich vollständige Erklärung in einem Vortrag: youtube.com/watch?v=T7K2SmqlzO

Michael Christen / YaCy Searchorbiterlab@sigmoid.social
2025-04-12

slightly off-topic - I made a thing:
thingiverse.com/thing:7007980
Pick and Click Bit Rack Reversed

Michael Christen / YaCy Searchorbiterlab@sigmoid.social
2025-03-23

Video vom Vortrag
"Open Data in KI nutzen"
von den Chemnitzer Linuxtagen 2025 @clt_news media.ccc.de/v/clt25-269-open-

Michael Christen / YaCy Searchorbiterlab@sigmoid.social
2025-03-23

Folien vom Vortrag
"Superhuman AI - Wie und wann ist KI nützlich"
bei den @clt_news Chemnitzer Linuxtagen 2025 yacy.net/material/20250322_CLT

Michael Christen / YaCy Searchorbiterlab@sigmoid.social
2025-03-13

Today, 14:30 (+07) at #FOSSASIA Bangkok:
"The Complete Anatomy of ChatGPT: A Precise Breakdown of LLMs and Transformers"
Tune in live at
eventyay.com/e/4c0e0c27/sessio
Slides can be downloaded from
yacy.net/material/20250313_FOS

Michael Christen / YaCy Searchorbiterlab@sigmoid.social
2025-02-22

@hieronymus @ArneBab its Solr, it always takes all the given RAM, thats what it does to be efficient.

Michael Christen / YaCy Searchorbiterlab@sigmoid.social
2025-02-15

DietPi (lightweight Debian OS for SBCs) comes with #yacy dietpi.com/docs/software/distr

Michael Christen / YaCy Searchorbiterlab@sigmoid.social
2025-02-14

Mit #YaCy auf den #CLT2025 / Chemnitzer Linuxtage - Blog Post von Frank:
do3eet.pages.dev/post/clt2025y

Michael Christen / YaCy Searchorbiterlab@sigmoid.social
2025-01-09

New #LLM "PE-Bench" benchmark results for coding, incl. different quantizations and languages: #python, #java, #rust, #clojure using Project Euler challenges: github.com/Orbiter/project-eul

Michael Christen / YaCy Searchorbiterlab@sigmoid.social
2024-12-28

#DeepSeek-V3 Leading in Superhuman Coding: new leading position in the PE-Bench-Python-100, showing a 15.58-fold #superhuman performance.
See: github.com/Orbiter/project-eul

Michael Christen / YaCy Searchorbiterlab@sigmoid.social
2024-12-27

YaCy meetup at #38c3 - I will be at the FOSSASIA table in the Critical Decentralization Cluster, watch out for the YaCy flag! If you want to meet me, just come by. See also: community.searchlab.eu/t/yacy-

Michael Christen / YaCy Searchorbiterlab@sigmoid.social
2024-12-27

@klokanek You can meet me now or any time in the next four days at 38c3: see my posting in community.searchlab.eu/t/yacy-

Michael Christen / YaCy Searchorbiterlab@sigmoid.social
2024-12-26

The PE-Bench-Python-100 test results (checking LLMs ability to code the Project Euler problems) are so far in this table. Read about it in github.com/Orbiter/project-eul

Michael Christen / YaCy Searchorbiterlab@sigmoid.social
2024-12-25

@rnbwdsh ah yes, I just replied this. Your ideas are welcome if you want to contribute.

However my target is to use the test results in a follow-up project where I want to make a auto-coder which reads tickets and provides pull requests. So we can collect here best practices.

Client Info

Server: https://mastodon.social
Version: 2025.04
Repository: https://github.com/cyevgeniy/lmst