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Re: Show HN: DeepHN – Full-text search of 30M Hacker News posts and linked webpages

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post #7

It’s fun to see Bitcoin posts from 2008-2010. I wonder how many bought and are now retired because of them. Seeing recommendations to use MtGox is pretty funny too https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1998144

I like this quote:

> 21 million bitcoins seems like a low limit to set. According to [0] the exchange rate is currently 221 Bitcoins per USD, so the total value of all possible bitcoins is only 95000USD.

Today 95000USD is worth 1.51BTC

Re: Show HN: DeepHN – Full-text search of 30M Hacker News posts and linked webpages

#13
Seems odd to publish a benchmark against Lucene where your results are "Lucene crashes at 4 concurrent users". Since there are thousands of people using Lucene and products built on Lucene every day, I think the issue may be in your benchmarking code.

Re: Show HN: DeepHN – Full-text search of 30M Hacker News posts and linked webpages

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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 - https://deephn.org/?sort=score&filter=%7B%22score%22%3A%7B%2... - have most of the preview occupied with navigation and other not interested parts. So maybe it is possible to use some hacky solution to show the content part for the most popular websites, or if multiple pages are downloaded from the same domain the content part could be detected automatically.

Re: Show HN: DeepHN – Full-text search of 30M Hacker News posts and linked webpages

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post #7

It’s fun to see Bitcoin posts from 2008-2010. I wonder how many bought and are now retired because of them. Seeing recommendations to use MtGox is pretty funny too https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1998144

Earlier post 2009: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=599852 "Well this is an exceptionally cute idea, but there is absolutely no way that anyone is going to have any faith in this currency." Written by co-founder/CEO of Pachyderm and first employee of RethinkDB none the less.

Reminds me of the infamous dropbox comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

Re: Show HN: DeepHN – Full-text search of 30M Hacker News posts and linked webpages

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I assume you are using Symspell for fuzzy search and prioritize candidate frequency over edit distance. My input "algolai" returns results for "angola" even though "algolia" was just 1 transposition away. Anyway just dropping in to say that stuff on your github helped me figure out a lot while building a search engine from scratch. Good luck with SeekStorm!
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