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Full-text search of 30M Hacker News posts and linked webpages

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#full-text search#hacker news search#search engine#fuzzy search

324points
112comments
#108of 2,533 in 2021
Top 5%of 2021 by points

How HN took it

DebatedReal support and real criticism

12 positive, 21 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 13 critical, out of 48 comments about the project. Thread score +0.01.

Execution: 1 for, 7 againstDesign: 5 for, 3 againstIdea: 2 for, 2 againstPerformance: 1 for, 1 against

The thread, comment by comment

Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.

positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker

What HN said

What people liked

  • Fast search results

    From 2 comments
    • Amazingly fast! I'm used to seeing a Firefox's load progress bar for most of requests on my mobile, yet here the results "just show up". More observations: - When trying to go…
      zoomablemind on HN
    • Nice to see full-text of the articles linked and really fast. Do you provide an API like Algolia does for HN?
      yewenjie on HN
  • Useful for finding historical posts

    From 2 comments
    • It is really great tool too see what used to be very popular posts in the past. I have one observation. Posts linking to twitter -…
      nitramm on HN
    • I like it. I built something similar recently for indexing scientific publiations on r/COVID19 based on Elasticsearch and Kibana.
      de6u99er on HN
  • Nice UI

    From 2 comments
    • I like the UI. Very nice.
      jschveibinz on HN
    • A page to bookmark for sure and an interesting product. The UI takes getting used to, but then again so do many actually useful tools.
      djhn on HN

Objections

  • Back button hijacking bug

    From 2 comments
    • Neat but the back button hijacking is not cool.
      syntaxing on HN
    • This kind of thing is enough for me to never want to use a site. If it's a bug, high recommend you fix it, if it's not, highly recommend you reconsider your position.
      dastx on HN
  • Preview shows navigation clutter for some sites

    From 1 comment
    • It is really great tool too see what used to be very popular posts in the past. I have one observation. Posts linking to twitter -…
      nitramm on HN
  • Copyright and fair use concerns

    From 1 comment
    • I'm curious how this site is compliant with copyright law. I've thought of working on similar projects, but the possibility of being sued has dissuaded me.
      abcc8 on HN

Requests

  • Reverse sort order by date

    From 1 comment
    • Love it! I would kill for a reverse order button to see oldest posts first
      b1tshift on HN
  • Support for excluding terms

    From 1 comment
  • Show time in results

    From 1 comment
    • Amazingly fast! I'm used to seeing a Firefox's load progress bar for most of requests on my mobile, yet here the results "just show up". More observations: - When trying to go…
      zoomablemind on HN
  • Work without JavaScript

    From 1 comment
    • We're sorry but seekstorm-deephn doesn't work properly without JavaScript enabled. Please enable it to continue. Could the folks with JS disabled get a small semi-static page…
      LinuxBender on HN

Questions

  • Is there an API?

    From 1 comment
    • Nice to see full-text of the articles linked and really fast. Do you provide an API like Algolia does for HN?
      yewenjie on HN
  • How are tags generated?

    From 1 comment
  • How was content crawled?

    From 1 comment
    • The effort definetely gets my upvote. What did you use to crawl the pages and how long did it take? Curious about your experience doing it and crawler integration with Seekstorm.…
      freediver on HN

Alternatives named

  • HN Search by Algolia

    From 2 comments
    • Curious to know how does it differ from HN Search [1]? HN Search API documentation [2]. [1] https://hn.algolia.com [2] https://hn.algolia.com/api
      0xmohit on HN
    • Nice to see full-text of the articles linked and really fast. Do you provide an API like Algolia does for HN?
      yewenjie on HN
  • hndex.org

    From 1 comment
    • I was hoping it would do full-text search of the text inside the linked pages, like hndex.org but with ranking.
      crazypython on HN
  • Typesense

    From 1 comment
    • Really cool demo. I'm curious to know what kind of hardware this is this hosted on. Full disclosure: I work on a similar fast, typo tolerant, fuzzy search engine search engine…
      karterk on HN

Category, keywords, summaries and labels on this page were made by AI (Thread Reader v2) and not checked by hand. Each point links to the comments it came from.

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