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Would love to hear feedback and how useful this is relative to the existing search.
Show HN: I made a search engine for Hacker News
hackernews.demo.vectara.com
Compared to Algolia.hn, this gives 0 filter controls (time window, stories vs. comments, `author:metadat', sort order, and so on), and no ability to search for exact matches. It failed to turn up anything interesting or even relevant for the 4 or 5 queries I ran.
You've still made it further than I in the HN search engine adventures, which is commendable.
Cool project, but I'm struggling to understand what is better about the Vectara solution? Compared to Algolia.hn, this gives 0 filter controls (time window, stories vs. comments, `author:metadat', sort order, and so on), and no ability to search for exact matches. It failed to turn up anything interesting or even relevant for the 4 or 5 queries I ran. You've still made it further than I in the HN search engine advent…
Cool project, but I'm struggling to understand what is better about the Vectara solution? Compared to Algolia.hn, this gives 0 filter controls (time window, stories vs. comments, `author:metadat', sort order, and so on), and no ability to search for exact matches. It failed to turn up anything interesting or even relevant for the 4 or 5 queries I ran. You've still made it further than I in the HN search engine advent…
If it's searching article content as well as just titles/comments, that's already quite interesting and useful. I've long wanted something like that for my browser history, like a "help me find this article I know I read sometime last week about X."
It would be remarkable and interesting to have a super deep search capability that indexes all first-order links on this site.
I found a bug. Under the "When will GPT-5 be released?" search results, there are double duplicate results. On one of the duplicates, the "username (date)" says "undefined (undefined)"
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If it's searching article content as well as just titles/comments, that's already quite interesting and useful. I've long wanted something like that for my browser history, like a "help me find this article I know I read sometime last week about X."
Yes, I've only recently rediscovered using the browser history for this exact purpose and it hasn't failed me yet. It would be remarkable and interesting to have a super deep search capability that indexes all first-order links on this site.
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If it's searching article content as well as just titles/comments, that's already quite interesting and useful. I've long wanted something like that for my browser history, like a "help me find this article I know I read sometime last week about X."
Yes, I've only recently rediscovered using the browser history for this exact purpose and it hasn't failed me yet. It would be remarkable and interesting to have a super deep search capability that indexes all first-order links on this site.
Show HN: DeepHN - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26791582
Of note, I was able to find that item (which I recalled existed but not by what name) with hn.algolia, but I was not able to find it with the OP search engine, or with the DeepHN search itself. So in my book, Algolia is winning.
But projects like this are super fun and educational to build so props to OP.
Cool project, but I'm struggling to understand what is better about the Vectara solution? Compared to Algolia.hn, this gives 0 filter controls (time window, stories vs. comments, `author:metadat', sort order, and so on), and no ability to search for exact matches. It failed to turn up anything interesting or even relevant for the 4 or 5 queries I ran. You've still made it further than I in the HN search engine advent…
If it's searching article content as well as just titles/comments, that's already quite interesting and useful. I've long wanted something like that for my browser history, like a "help me find this article I know I read sometime last week about X."
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes, I've only recently rediscovered using the browser history for this exact purpose and it hasn't failed me yet. It would be remarkable and interesting to have a super deep search capability that indexes all first-order links on this site.
And you think that hasn't been made yet? :-D Show HN: DeepHN - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26791582 Of note, I was able to find that item (which I recalled existed but not by what name) with hn.algolia, but I was not able to find it with the OP search engine, or with the DeepHN search itself. So in my book, Algolia is winning. But projects like this are super fun and educational to build so props to OP.