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Re: Hister – A private, full content search index that you control

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Post by evanjrowley »

While I love Karakeep, the truth is that I'm using it to solve this exact same problem, even though its project goals are not as well aligned. I would seriously consider giving Hister a try because it seems like a better fit. Bonus points for being written in Go.

I suppose the one thing I need would be an easy way to share links into Hister. Hopefully we will see both Android/iOS mobile apps to send links into Hister and better support for Safari. I wonder what could be possible with the extensions support available on mobile browsers too (Safari, MS Edge, Firefox).

Re: Hister – A private, full content search index that you control

#102

Post by p-e-w »

mickdarling wrote: post #100
p-e-w wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I used to be interested in the prophecies of Nostradamus a lifetime ago. You may be surprised to learn that “Hister” is a name mentioned in those prophecies that is commonly claimed by believers to refer to the future Adolf Hitler. Academics usually take it to mean the Danube river instead, but in conspiracy/New Age contexts, the association with Hitler is prevalent, and mentioned in several pop culture works, includ…

Literally the first thing I thought of. Is he trying to reference an Antichrist?

I’m pretty sure it’s just an unintentional name collision. The vast majority of people are unaware of this name’s connotation in Nostradamus, unless they happen to have read or watched some pop culture work that references it.

Re: Hister – A private, full content search index that you control

#103

Post by asciimoo »

p-e-w wrote: post #71
asciimoo wrote: post #2

Ohi, author here! Thanks for posting Hister. Feel free to A.M.A. My first free software search project was Searx, a privacy respecting metasearch engine, but because of the limitations of the metasearch concept, I've decided to take a different approach. Hister builds a personal search index from pages you visit, bookmarks, browser history, local files, and crawled websites. It stores extracted content with offline r…

I used to be interested in the prophecies of Nostradamus a lifetime ago. You may be surprised to learn that “Hister” is a name mentioned in those prophecies that is commonly claimed by believers to refer to the future Adolf Hitler. Academics usually take it to mean the Danube river instead, but in conspiracy/New Age contexts, the association with Hitler is prevalent, and mentioned in several pop culture works, includ…

The name is coming from "HISTory on STERoids". When I checked the name, I found only a beetle and part of the Danube called "Hister".

Re: Hister – A private, full content search index that you control

#104

Post by zuzululu »

stavros wrote: post #83
asciimoo wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> are you planning a hosted version Not in the near term. Right now I am focused on developing Hister rather than operating a hosted service. There are already plenty of centralized hosted search engines, so my longer term interest is in federation and distributed search. I want to make the core system mature first. > would've been great with a more liberal license It depends on how do you define liberal. =] I chose…

I agree with AGPLv3, I don't really understand why people have an objection. All it prevents is someone taking your work and making a business out of it.

with AGPL if you modify any part of it you have to open source the entire thing and you may not want to do that or your company prevents it.

In fact many companies avoid AGPLv3 licensing for this reason.

> All it prevents is someone taking your work and making a business out of it.

Not really. I say licensing is moot now because of LLMs.

Re: Hister – A private, full content search index that you control

#105

Post by bpavuk »

evanjrowley wrote: post #101

While I love Karakeep, the truth is that I'm using it to solve this exact same problem, even though its project goals are not as well aligned. I would seriously consider giving Hister a try because it seems like a better fit. Bonus points for being written in Go. I suppose the one thing I need would be an easy way to share links into Hister. Hopefully we will see both Android/iOS mobile apps to send links into Hister…

the Hister extension is available on Firefox for Android :)

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hister/

Re: Hister – A private, full content search index that you control

#107

Post by exe34 »

asciimoo wrote: post #39
exe34 wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is this reply from Gemini? Because I'm used to gemini gaslighting me. The answer is the opposite of my question.

Doh, sorry, the answer was coming from me who did not read the question properly. It currently cannot import browser bookmarks, but it is a good idea. Added to my TODO.

Figured I can just export the bookmarks and then hister index the urls.

Re: Hister – A private, full content search index that you control

#108

Post by alchemist1e9 »

vzaliva wrote: post #58
asciimoo wrote: post #2

Ohi, author here! Thanks for posting Hister. Feel free to A.M.A. My first free software search project was Searx, a privacy respecting metasearch engine, but because of the limitations of the metasearch concept, I've decided to take a different approach. Hister builds a personal search index from pages you visit, bookmarks, browser history, local files, and crawled websites. It stores extracted content with offline r…

I was thinking about making a "personal data search engine". I have almost 30GB of email archives and a bunch of Google Drive and offline files. I am thinking about downloading it all from the cloud and storing it on a large RAID array, with an indexing and search interface (and possibly a local MCP server). Would Hister be suitable for this? Can it index mbox files? Would it handle this amount of data? Does it have…

Take a look at msgvault. It might handle your email archives very well.

Re: Hister – A private, full content search index that you control

#109

Post by veemjeem »

asciimoo wrote: post #2

Ohi, author here! Thanks for posting Hister. Feel free to A.M.A. My first free software search project was Searx, a privacy respecting metasearch engine, but because of the limitations of the metasearch concept, I've decided to take a different approach. Hister builds a personal search index from pages you visit, bookmarks, browser history, local files, and crawled websites. It stores extracted content with offline r…

I'm running hister locally, I see in the MCP docs that a third party can query the server, but is there a way to import data as well? I find that I often do research using pi, and would love to save the context to hister to query later on. The closest thing I see is the "hister import file" command, which is great, but inconvenient. If MCP allowed third parties to dump text data in, that would be ideal.

Re: Hister – A private, full content search index that you control

#110

Post by 9935c101ab17a66 »

vivzkestrel wrote: post #80

- lots of stupid questions to the author from a guy who has no idea about search engines - let us say I want to index every blog ever listed on HN - should be a small subset of the 400 billion pages out there on the internet no? - First I need to gather data, what do you use to load so many webpages rapidly? asyncio with aiohttp in python? are there better options? - how do you handle proxies? rotation? are there lib…

A lot of these can be answered by checking the documentation: https://hister.org.

Others could be answered by examining the source code, as it is open source.

It's good etiquette to check existing documentation and resources before badgering OSS project teams with a lengthy list of questions.

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