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I am currently playing with the Algolia hackernews search API myself and experimenting with spaCy Named Entity Recognition and llama3 to come up with some interesting data.
Work in progress version here: https://news.facts.dev/topic
Nice work. I wonder if there may be a better application for the Vectara capabilities than search? Algolia has already done the search thing, can the Vectara search be 10x better? What I do find missing from HN is the ability for me to see things that may be of interest to me, but that I may have missed. I like how I get everything in the main feed which is pure popularity, but I don't have the time to go through all…
I searched for "Supabase" and none of top the results in your demo contained an actual post about supabase. Following the example queries I then tried "What is supabase?" and the results were equally irrelevant. My personal opinion is that I'll keep using the HN search for the foreseeable time.
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These days I use the search feature much more than commenting or reading posts. The frontpage is the usual recent news addiction treadmill, while for research into niche topics you can find a treasure trove of interesting comments in the archives. Want more posts about Lisp, Smalltalk and reverse engineering, for example, rather than the usual front page drivel? Search for them. On one hand I wish Algolia didn't give…
I also made a bookmarklet to show me HN posts from random dates, it is quite interesting to see what was interesting to people a decade ago, for example. Lots of comments in HN's heyday were pretty eye opening as well. javascript:(function() {function randomDate(start, end) {var date = new Date(+start + Math.random() \* (end - start));var day = ("0" + date.getDate()).slice(-2);var month = ("0" + (date.getMonth() + 1)…
For example, here's HN from a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2023-07-02.
https://news.ycombinator.com/highlights is another good resource (and if anyone notices a great HN comment, past or present, they're welcome to nominate it for the highlights list! just email hn@ycombinator.com).
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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 abo…
Yes, it's just about 6 months back. If requested by folks here, we can certainly crawl back more years - this was just the first crawl I did.
It’s better to use the API.
It doesn't seem like it has any filtering or sorting like the Algolia one has, like comments/stories by a specific user, during certain dates, sorting by upvotes/recency, searching by just title/content/comments.
Say I wanted to search for comments by the OP, ofermend, it doesn't seem like I can...
Entering just their name returns results that aren't made by them nor mention their username, I tried other queries too without any luck.
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I also made a bookmarklet to show me HN posts from random dates, it is quite interesting to see what was interesting to people a decade ago, for example. Lots of comments in HN's heyday were pretty eye opening as well. javascript:(function() {function randomDate(start, end) {var date = new Date(+start + Math.random() \* (end - start));var day = ("0" + date.getDate()).slice(-2);var month = ("0" + (date.getMonth() + 1)…
Also recommended is https://news.ycombinator.com/front , which shows you the frontpage stories from any day—a little bit like archive.org would do, except that it's not a snapshot, but a composite of all the front pages from a 24 hour period. For example, here's HN from a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2023-07-02 . https://news.ycombinator.com/highlights is another good resource (and if anyone notic…
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Also recommended is https://news.ycombinator.com/front , which shows you the frontpage stories from any day—a little bit like archive.org would do, except that it's not a snapshot, but a composite of all the front pages from a 24 hour period. For example, here's HN from a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2023-07-02 . https://news.ycombinator.com/highlights is another good resource (and if anyone notic…
Thanks Dan, that is in fact exactly what my bookmarklet does, it generates a random date (2012-01-02) and appends it to ` https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day= `. I think there should be a `random` link on the HN header links that does what I am currently doing, it would be useful to have it built-in.
A 'random' link might be a good idea. For /highlights too.
PS: no, lootitooti is not my project. I decided to finally watch Game of Thrones with my wife and I remembered that site when I was watching the opening. I remembered seeing it here on HN, searched and found it.
Cool, I like it! 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)"
Good find. let me check why that occurs.