Author here. Yes, it actually does work. If I’m ever indexing fewer than ~100k documents/paragraphs I would use something like this approach rather than reaching for a vector database.
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I got alerted to it hitting #1 on HN and was able to see it there for only a little bit before it immediately got tanked to # 60. I'm a little bummed, but c'est la vie.