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Well done!

yes hn.algolia.com is powered by Cloudflare /o\

Sure thing, we’re experimenting with some Load-Balancing heuristics and instrumentations, and it looks it got rate-limited by the engine who got surprised all traffic was coming fr…

Let’s say it was a mix of HN alerting (hnwatcher), good timing (Friday evening) and luck :) very happy to have seen this in time. Have a nice WE as well!

Should be good now.

Should be good now.

[HN Search admin speaking] We disabled the rate-limit for now. A load-balancer experimentation that didn't behave as expected (the LB's IP getting rate-limited).

Thanks for sharing, this is surprising as the rate-limit should be per IP :/ Investigating.

Investigating, this is weird as the rate-limit should be per IP :/

Is it? Working from here. What kind of network error do you get?

Do you think about any improvement I could share with our team? I know they're always looking for feedback to improve the HN Search experience.

Oh that's weird, a dropdown menu should appear and give you access to a list of developer resources :/

Btw, part of this pricing rework is also about removing some of the feature gating. It's an approach we've taken to really get the feature right, first releasing it to a smaller se…

(Sylvain from Algolia speaking) Thanks for sharing, our pricing & its transparency is actually something we are working on right now to address this perception. We've been iteratin…

Yes, when sorting by date it's currently configured to disable typo-tolerance. This is to avoid having an old (but approximative, with typos) result BEFORE the correct ones.

You should give it a try; Algolia has a FREE tier you can play with. You can also watch this 45sec video to get a grasp of it: https://youtu.be/IYY5RM1sBC0

Correct, and the source code is here: https://github.com/algolia/hn-search

Yes, when sorting by date it's currently configured to disable typo-tolerance. This is to avoid having an old (but approximative, like with typos) result BEFORE the correct ones.

Congrats Algolia!

Algolia's engine relies on an optimised Damerau-Levenshtein + prefix matching algorithm.