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Re: Show HN: I made a search engine for Hacker News

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Post by sattoshi »

tamimio wrote: post #28
metadat wrote: post #3

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…

>algolia.hn Is that a valid link? I get an error when opening it.

They meant https://hn.algolia.com/

Re: Show HN: I made a search engine for Hacker News

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Post by shortrounddev2 »

mikepurvis wrote: post #4
metadat wrote: post #3

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."

Lol you're describing Microsoft's recall feature that everyone here is saying is the death of privacy

Re: Show HN: I made a search engine for Hacker News

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Post by kelnos »

shortrounddev2 wrote: post #32
mikepurvis wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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."

Lol you're describing Microsoft's recall feature that everyone here is saying is the death of privacy

If Recall was open source and auditable, and didn't send any data at all about usage to the internet, I guess that would be fine.

Otherwise, no thanks.

Re: Show HN: I made a search engine for Hacker News

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Post by metadat »

cottsak wrote: post #22
ofermend wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Currently it's indexing the content of stories and comments. Are you suggesting also to index the content of the main story link (which is outside HN)?

maybe add metadata to the index, but not the full page content, else you're just gonna build another google

How so? There's no PageRank in sight here, very little spam to worry about or contend with.

Re: Show HN: I made a search engine for Hacker News

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Post by potatoman22 »

tamimio wrote: post #28
metadat wrote: post #3

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…

>algolia.hn Is that a valid link? I get an error when opening it.

You can also use !hn on duckduckgo

Re: Show HN: I made a search engine for Hacker News

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Post by seaal »

yaj54 wrote: post #8
metadat wrote: post #5

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.

Perhaps someone will be able to help me find a website I’ve been trying to Google for with no luck: the main focus of the website is a music player with 3D pipes and arrows that the camera would follow along, live rendering the entire scene while music was playing, but it was also a personal blog if you scrolled down. Domain was relatively short and I think it started with K.

Re: Show HN: I made a search engine for Hacker News

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Post by codetrotter »

ceving wrote: post #36

Searching for "iptables" returns first: > Arm says it wants all Snapdragon X Elite laptops destroyed Not so useful.

It’s matching two comments in the thread. It bolds the part that talks about iptables in each.

So it’s not like it’s irrelevant, even though it is certainly not actually the most relevant one either.

It seems to give better results if you are more specific. For example, try the following search:

how to use iptables effectively

And have a look at the first five or so results.

Also, note that OP said it’s searching about six months worth of data. So if anything specific about iptables that you were looking for is older than that then their search tool doesn’t know about it.

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