# Funes by Hugging Face

5 Hacker News commenters recommended Funes by Hugging Face and 1 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 3 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Plain-text memory for AI coding agents, favored for conversation search over vector search. Critics report a first indexing pass covered only 189 of 19k sessions.

## Why people recommend it

- Plain text storage, no vector search (1 comments): "I specifically want everything to be stored as plain text and no vector search" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49583565))
- Good for conversation search (1 comments): "has been my go-to here (specifically for conversation search)" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50051281))

## What people warn about

- Slow, incomplete first indexing pass (1 comments): "the documented 1 min first pass indexed 189 of 19k sessions (0/100)" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49599968))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Total Recall for Claude Code](https://hackerapproved.com/p/total-recall.md): 12 recommend
- [OKF Agent Memory](https://hackerapproved.com/p/okf-agent-memory.md): 9 recommend
- [Contextify](https://hackerapproved.com/p/contextify.md): 6 recommend
- [Claude Brain](https://hackerapproved.com/p/claude-brain.md): 6 recommend
- [Jevmem](https://hackerapproved.com/p/jevmem.md): 6 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Funes by Hugging Face", https://hackerapproved.com/p/funes/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).