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full-text search engine
SHOW HN2021
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 HNNice 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 HNI 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 HNA 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 HNThis 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
Can we exclude certain terms in search with a "-" e.g. "-oculus"?
smusamashah on HN
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
This is nice! How are the stories tagged?
yamrzou on HN
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 HNNice 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